Thanks for this. It would have taken me much longer to figure out how to use it on my own. I watched this video last weekend, and yesterday, I purchased Wonderdraft. I was able to jump right in and use it with the relative ease. I even imported some of my hand drawn maps!
I bought Wonderdraft a long time ago and only tinker with it from time to time. I've been 'building' my world with other tools, but always plan to do the final pass in Wonderdraft. This was a great tutorial to go through as a refresher to keep my skills with the program up to snuff.
I like the heavily forested area in the north because folks often don't realize how deforested Europe is and for how long it has been. Especially since the 1700s. Same with large swaths of America.
Have always done my maps the old fashioned way paper pen. Someone sent me your link and video and I loved it… fantastic job 💪🏻 loved it so much I purchased the software today and am on my 12th map already….
Glad I found this! And so many responses beat me to the Bob Ross analogy! Also, this gentleman has a "quiet cursor". 😊 He doesn't move the mouse all over the place! Which cab be quite annoying. Question: can you establish "scale" in Wonderdraft at the beginning? I have my drawn my map in pencil already to scale. Lastly, can I import a pdf scan of my map and use it as a transparent background to trace over?
There is an option to add a grid and change its size to establish scale. Let me find a video on how I did that. Also your image needs to be a .bmp or a .png to add it as a overly
@zer4023 Last night I purchased a scanner to upload my hand drawn maps to my laptop and I was wondering the same thing. Thought I saw it in the overlay section but it wasn't mentioned so I came to the comments. Thanks!
Is there a way to place towns and cities as simple dots instead of buildings and structures? I think for a continent map, these buildings are kind of out of place and make a continent or even a country look small. I've found a circle with a star in it in the symbols, but that seems better suited for capitals. Is there a simple dot for cities somewhere in the symbols?
Hummm.... Great questions. I think it would be similar. Start with the basic shape of the valley, add the highest point, then figure out where the erosion would take place and color accordingly.
Nice tutorial! Just started using the program. Do you know if you can select a piece of land, an island of continent for exemple, and move around the map? In case you draw an island/continent but on the wrong spot or justa wanna move someplace else?
@@AvantNovis Ha! I've been so rabidly downloading assets I hadn't even checked the default ones. Your videos have been very helpful in learning to use Wonderdraft! Thanks for the quick reply!
can't use Arabic on labels I tried to copy the fonts to the assets folder but at last I ended up with Arabic alphabets, but it's not connected alphabets. so it goes like this د م ح أ instead of this أحمد can anyone help me ?
@@AvantNovis i have an ipad Pro 4. Generation with iPadOS 17.2 // but i would buy a tablet where it works. Im searching for a tool to create maps because worldanvil dont have something like that. Its only about private use. And i am new as a GM for DnD5e // thank you for the response
I'm trying to make a world map in the shape of a realistic planet. I've made a sketch of it in krita and saved it as a jpeg and a png file. Is there a way I can put the image of that map in as a layer and draw a map in Wonderdraft over it?
you can use the map you made and put it in as an overlay and use it to trace a map in wonderdraft. Other than making a black and white copy to import there is not a way to use a layer in wonderdraft. Let me see if there is a video on how to import it.
this on show how to take a black and white image and import it directly to wonderdraft ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-chibWOIje6o.html
