Wednesday, January 31, 2024

The Five Minute Fantasy Map Maker

This is Middle England an interactive fantasy map which I made in under 5 minutes, using World Anvil. Middle England is a sacred a magical realm steeped in the ancient lores of rune-crafting, dream-weaving and alchemy.

World Anvil bills itself as a "Worldbuilding Toolset & RPG Campaign Manager Created for Writers, Gamemasters & Creatives". One of the tools in this tool-set is a map wizard which allows you to create an interactive fantasy map from any static image. Creating an interactive fantasy map with World Anvil is as simple as uploading an image file of your map and then pointing to where you want to add markers.

Before using World Anvil I created the Middle England map using Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator. The Fantasy Map Generator is an impressive procedural map generator, which can be used to create and edit fantasy maps. The tool comes with a number of options which allow you to control the look and design of your generated fantasy map. When you are happy with the result you can then download your map as a still image.

This static image map can then be turned into an interactive fantasy map with World Anvil. After registering with World Anvil you simply need to upload the static image of your fantasy map and it will automatically turn it into an interactive map which can be panned and zoomed. The free version of World Anvil allows you to add markers to your fantasy map. If you become a paying subscriber you can unlock more tools which then allow you to also add map labels, polylines and polygons to your map.

 

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