Perilous Lands: Ma'helas

[Choinski, Burt]

||  I'd actually be interested in what software you are using to create
your maps.

> Using Canvas 5.0 for the Macintosh I have created a file that contains
> several layers.  The first layer is a plane of light-gray hexes that
> are used to define the hex colors.  Then comes the border layer for
> lines defining the country borders.  Then the water layer comes next.
> I create a fractal object of "water blue" to cover the underlying
> color.  The object is created by carefully drawing the lines from hex
> to hex.  I also put rivers on this layer.  Then comes the roads layer
> (so roads can cross rivers).  Next comes the cities/forts layer where
> I put down those objects.  Next comes the hex-grid layer, which is
> another plane of hexagons, transparent this time but with a white
> border.  The final layer is the names layer where I put the various
> names.  The layers approach allows me to tweak each portion without
> messing up the other parts.  As a final step, I can save the canvas
> file as either an EPS for printing on a color printer, or as a GIF
> (which I will eventually post to Wout's page).
>
> My current "map" page has a 12x12 hex area on a letter sized page,
> which is a decent zoom level.
>     -- Burton