Inkarnate - Let's Make a Fantasy Map! (free version)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Make good-looking fantasy maps with ease with Inkarnate.
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print it on paper then burn the edges and hand them out to your group!
Dont forget to bake them too for a light even crisp
why would i burn the edges?
To make more of a real medieval map
You can also dye the paper in tea, it's something we did in the 5th grade for learning the revolution and the constitution of the United States. It works surprisingly well, it makes the document look similar to old papers such as the US constitution.
P.S. crumple the paper, then flattening it back out before you do it to give it that old, rustic look once it's finished
Any exuse fir arsen
I've loved using the free version for making my first continent. One tip I would suggest is for roads, use the Subtract Land tool on its smallest setting. You'll have to make your rivers a little larger, but I think the trade-off is worth it. They stand out clearer and won't be easily erased if you try shading different land colors for the area. Then, when you're happy with everything, use a brown based land color with smallest size and radial softness medium to high and go over the roads. It'll create a highlight to help give a little more road color for you.
Great tip. Thanks!
The only thing that would push this tool way over the top is if they could figure out how to automatically take the edge of our continent blobs and etch them out into coastlines.
That would certainly be nice!
They have it.
Me in 2020: Laughs
Thanks for showing how to sculpt the coast, I've been struggling with trying to get it to look right and watching the process really helped. I really like the art style of the landmarks.
Cool! Glad you found it helpful!
This tutorial was extremely helpful! Just made the map for my the fantasy book I am writing at the moment. Thank you! :)))
Did you write it? :3
@@kamuibbx8351 Yes, its finished now! 😊😋😁
I wanna read it, do you have discord?
Same
I logged into Inkarnate and had no idea what I was doing. Your video has helped me so much. Thank You! Also Inkarnate is great. I've looked at like 20 different free map making websites and Inkarnate outshines the rest of them by a mile!
Dude, You're a life saver for this tutorial! In under an hour, I had transformed my lackluster sketch into a real map I can be proud to show my players!
For those watching in 2020, I decided to buy inkarnate after watching a few videos like this. The program is significantly improved and have a lot more features. The primary problem remains the fact that inkarnate maps are very easy to spot due to a low diversity of the same asset type.
Great video.
I would be interested in you making a similar video showing the Pro version. It would be good to see what additional tools were on offer.....
Thanks for the feedback. Maybe I'll reach out for a review subscription.
Super helpful even in free mode. Finally I realized how to use props like you did and it helped my players to really love the map we have for our DnD campaign.
15:20 This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!
Inkarnate is quite the mapping tool. I somehow got on their mailing list and received an email to try them out. Within t minutes I got the pro version and am quite happy with it to say the least.
Thank you so much! This is going to help me rework a map I have made for my book a long time ago. I'm looking forward to trying it.
Watched your other video about all the free map generators and MAN! do they got some good resources out there. Thanks for the heads up, these are great! Also, I literally built my own map alongside you while I watched this and I have to say, you made the process pretty bearable and actually pretty fun. Thanks for what you do, bro. Keep it up!
Awesome. Thanks for the kind words.
@@WASD20 And as a follow up, I am a creative type and this is a perfect shortcut for making something that looks close to what I want without all the fuss of actually going to all the trouble to make it from scratch. Sometimes you just want to start with some pieces instead of reinventing the wheel. Great program.
Very impressive how the fellow creates a reasonable looking map within 30 minutes! Now strongly thinking of downloading Inkarnate. I have lots of world to cover. Thanks man!
This was an amazing guide. I made a map before this and it looked like a green blob. It took me half an hour to make a map that looked 10 times better after watching this. Thanks!
I think the best way to make roads is making the rivers bigger, so you can clearly see the blue background.
Then you can go to the sculpt tool, switch to substract mode and draw the roads with the minimum size circle (just as you did the rivers here).
Ah, just what i needed now that I'm starting to need a map for the Demon Realm in my book :p
I'm saving this for future reference. Quick, easy maps for a gaming sessions. Thanks for the tutorial!
Cool. Thanks for watching!
I used to enjoyed making fantasy maps as a kid, loved doing it. Watched a load of your map making videos (Fantasy map making, #TheMappening) and you have really inspired me to have another go at making fantasy maps again. I'm going to have a look at using the tools on this website to see what I can do. Thanks for bringing out my 12yo self again 👍 👍
Map making rule no. 1 : NEVER FORGET THE SOUND EFFECTS
Very important.
I've been looking at this app for a few days now, itching to get into it. This video was insanely helpful, thank you!
Cool! Yeah, check it out. :)
I've noticed with roads, if you mess with the softness a bit it helps with the definition of them against your map base!
Great tip. Thanks!
Can I use this for a novel or I will recieve a formal demand?
Thank you soo much! I am a DM looking for a tool to make a map for my players, and this is the perfect tool for it. Really good tutorial, well explained, and super helpful
Thanks! Enjoy. :)
The EXACT information I needed- thank you!
Very cool. Definitely using this for my next homebrew.
It's been a long time since I used Inkarnate. Thanks for reigniting my passion for it, Nate! Definitely will try to use it more to hone my map making skills.
If you click on the painted terrain items like trees and mountains you can use the arrow keys to move them around.
Thanks. This is just what I need for my fantasy map of the Underworld
If you're interested, I'd be happy to send it to you.
You really need to revisit Inkarnate. I just signed up for it and it looks very little like this. It also gives very good edges to the map as well , though I'm not an artist so I'm still having difficulties figuring how to make something credible.
Yeah I did an updated review less than 2 months ago.
Thanks for the presentation ! I litterally spent 12 hours remaking a simplified version of NOSGOTH, from Legacy of Kain. I can't make it as accurate as the real map (which is very old, hard to read, and there isn't ONE official map of it... Timelines shenanigans).
BUT ! The result is pretty neat with the main things I need. I can still had some cream other it when I need to send my player to death somewhere else. Imagination and improvisation is the key.
Thank you so much for making this video! I always want to write stories even though I usually delete them and I used to draw maps for fun to get started but this makes it so much easier since I am probably going to delete it anyway. It would be cool if there were more options for unique buildings but I guess that is the pro version. Are there any other tools like this?
I doubt this is written in a way that can accommodate an undo button. The map would need a history of its components, which it probably doesn't have.
River can be made, by using a small ocean brush. That’s atleast what I’ve done. And then sculping can give roads.
Here's a map for my german campaign that I made ^^
imgur.com/9kAlBA7
Nicely done!
You did a great job with it.
So many changes... I made this 2 -3 years ago. It isn't finished but you can see how much better it is now.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B2st0Rjz9mGGVVZIcFQxOU10bjg/view?usp=drivesdk
Yours is soooo much better
Did you make it with the free or the pro version ?
It is a really cool app, but just wont let me go Pro, because I have a foreign card :/
I bought a map making program a while ago that is almost identical to this... CC3, I bought it for like 100 bucks. It was not as easy as this, but it is the exact same in regards to looks
Thank you. I'm searching for a tool to create easily maps to go with 3D images I'm making, and I'm going to give this one a try.
The map looks fairly small- as in only 1 state or small country's worth of room if I wanted to label keeps and cities and terrain features. Being able to reduce the size of everything is do-able, however I am wondering if you can link multiple maps together to form a larger (world) picture? Within the program of course. I figure you could save all the maps and put them together manually. Appreciate the video, this is exactly what I am looking for!
Thank you for sharing this. I am enjoying the heck out of this.
Great! Glad to hear it.
Oh man, this has changed a lot!!
If you click the Select button at the top of the window, you can delete items you placed easily enough. Then if you make the coast or land in a way you don't want, you just have to redraw or erase.
Kinda wonky in execution, but if one can get used to clunky execution of what you want to accomplish, it's okay.
I really find Inkarnate good for smaller maps. It really lacks tools for continent / world maps. Something as simple of a dotted line to denote roads does not exist. It's great, and I'm a pro sub, for the use of regional maps / cities, towns, villages... I find I have to use a combo Wonderdraft/Inkarnate for my needs.
Awesome, thanks for showing this!
A lot of great info here. Thank you for the tutorial! One of the struggles I have is that when I select the grid or hex tool, I can't get rid of the lines, even if I select out of it. Do you know how to get rid of them, or keep them from showing up?
Very useful video! Thanks! This app seems very good!
great tool, they do need to fix the text writng side though as you have to highlight and retype things you mess up rather than delete like in normal text based writing programmes.
Thats really great! Thank you!
Drawing is my Weakness as GM, but with this it could be okay at least. ;D
"Been in beta for 2 and a half years"
RimWorld: Bitch, please!
that was a great map but maybe you could do a video for the chrome book because its very different on the chrome book
I can't use it, all terrain and textures are gone. If I use the shovel all the land come back but not the water and when I go to my maps the map is just white, It happens when I save. Is it because I use a bad laptop? Do someone know how to fix it.
thank you for showing me this tool its very useful
thank you for the software and the tutorial they were very helpful
hiii, i was wondering, i just signed up for inkarnate and when i finally logged in, the page is blank, there is nothing. i’m confused as to why this is happening. help??
clever name for channel
I'm just trying the free version and it looks nothing like this. There is no visible option for trees or mountains.
Yep. This is 3.5 years old now.
Very helpful! Thanks.
Brand new to dnd and your videos fucking rock man
This reminds me of the Heroes of Might and Magic III map creator.
Great video. I love the concept of your channel. New sub!
Cool! Thanks so much. :)
Is there a way to combine or take sections from the maps and expand them? Like let’s say I make a continent, can I take a chunk of the northern part and make a zoomed in section?
Not that I know of. I have seen people make several free maps and stitch them together in a different program (lots of free options) to make one larger world map that connects.
There’s no easy way, but the way I’ve seen people do this kind of this is to make the zoomed out map and download the image, then open that image in some image editor. Then you cut out the section you want to be zoomed in and make that it’s own image. Then you use that new image to create a new texture in Inkarnate, and paint that into Inkarnate. Then you go over that texture (because it will be low res) with the default tools. And at this point you have a zoomed in part of the map, but it’s not simple.
So playing around, there is a “Zoom” tool and then I can just screenshot it. It looks rough on the free version, but I think Black and White it might look ok.
Why doesn't my setup look like that
I was really interested in using this but, unfortunatelly, they not only lack an Undo button but also payment methods other than credit cards, that are not so common in europe.
I have no idea where the screen is that shows all those buttons!! What am I doing wrong for the free version? Help!!
Hi! Can we make city/ town maps on Inkarnate? Also, are there any other apps or websites where we can create city maps and maps of inside of a building?
this tool is sweet thanks for sharing man
Thanks it really helped me
damn nice! Btw, is it possible, to move characters to one place and somewhere else? Like for story planing, that i can see where my figures are, because if you have some of them, you will understand its not always easy to keep in track :D
Also for later reading, it will make it much easier for people if they get an update where some figures remain.
But why not use PhotoShop (or GIMP) at this point? For the assets? I mean, yeah sure its seems easy to make a map, but really this is all about a using pre-made styles and assets on a stripped down image/assets editing tool.
I'm pretty sure if I find assets, it might actually be easier on Photoshop (or GIMP) to make it looks good... Probably would take longer and be a bit more complex, but the style might come out much better and without much restrictions.
You're awesome! Thanks for the great video
You've convinced me - thanks for sharing! :)
Thanks for watching!
No worries! I love making maps and this tool is really nice!
Excellent video and thank you.
You’re welcome
Great explanation - thanks a lot!
sad there are not many object/terrain options
OH MY GOD GIANT FLY!
So this is the free version? - I am very tempted to pick this up, has it been added to since this video was released?
I assume it has, but haven't checked in a while.
Great video keep up the work!
I cant even see that layer (the creat layer). After click create there just some one big black box shape that block the way. Do you know why? And what must i do?
So the map style is fantasy; can it do say an Ancient Greek or Egyptian style map too?
Wonderdraft is currently on sale for anyone considering it, $10 off so only $19.99
Really helpful thanks
selecting a terrain texture does nothing to the sculpt tool. You can select snow, or swamp, or desert, but the sculpt tool terrain reveals as the same tan texture no matter what. I like Inkarnate and have the pro version, but the painting tools are clunky.
Can you make a video on 1.0? Im not sure when it will be done but they have sign ups for early access. And its been improved quite a bit since this video
Looks like not much it free with it these days.
But $5 for a full month is a pretty decent deal.
Thanks for your video !
my free version only scrolls down to the zoom button, there are NO buttons under it including a save option...
click edge and scroll down, probably should have given you a headsup to click there before trying to wheel mouse down...
Hey! So I just came across your channel and am in the process of watching all of your map videos. My question is, if you were to draw a map for the under dark, being the realm of drow and other creatures, how would that work out? Have you ever done an underground map?
I have not, but if you Google image search Underdark maps you'll find a lot of different ways.
was enough to avoid the sign up thx for the demo
This is amazing.
Thanks a million!
so helpful, thanks!
the tablet can be used but there is no sensitivity on the pen...oh the undo button is a must have lol
Hey! Are you able to tell me what music is playing whilst you're creating the foundation for the land?
idk how to get pro! when i go to the pro page it doesn't show a button to get the free pro version.. help?? @Annatar The Lord of Gifts @Imaginary MdA
I tried this on iOS and there is a website for it but there's only one color and you can do anything but shape a big blob.... Is there something wrong with my iPad?
Great video! Thanx!
I tried it briefly, but it doesn't seem to work with wacom tablet. A quick check shows that other people have the same problem. You can click with the stylus, but it doesn't register drag, so you can't 'draw' with it. This is sort of a deal breaker if you're used to working with a stylus instead of a mouse.
Yep. I noted that in the video. It was a bit frustrating for me, but I suppose for those of us who have a wacom tablet we'd likely have enough skill and tools to make one in photoshop. :)
Still, I agree it would be nice.
Ya there totes shud b an undo button. Having a map making tool and not having an undo button is like having a necromancer's crypt lair and not having an undead monster encounter... lol
thank you so much this helps heaps!!!!
Awesome video