About This Software What is it?Arcane Mapper is a mapping tool designed for Digital or Virtual Tabletops and printing for physical play. Put together high quality maps for D&D, Pathfinder, GURPS, Hero or any other Pencil and Paper RPG system - whether on the table top or virtual. It features a simple to use interface for drawing out rooms, adding objects and adding atmosphere with high quality lighting. Ideal for dungeons and interiors with support for outdoor environments coming before the full release.What is the idea?Arcane Mapper is an easy to use tool for creating maps for roleplaying games. The tool can produce top down, forced perspective 3D looking environments that mesh well with simple images for objects - no modeling or 3D experience required. With free assets available for private use on the internet, this software allows you to put together high quality maps for your games with less effort, without constraining you to predefined map pieces, tiles or limited assets. Easily render out high quality images for Virtual Tabletop games or print out maps for a physical tabletop game. Even save out .PSD files that preserve the layers for Photoshop if you are more artistically inclined.Longer term after the initial release, I am planning on adding Digital Desktop and possibly Virtual Desktop features with high quality real time lighting and fog of war with an easy to use interface for GMs and players.What editing and mapping features does the software support? Rendering high quality images (such as JPG, PNG, PSD) for use with Virtual Tabletops such as Roll20. Printing high quality images from your maps for Physical Tabletop play. Drag and Drop images directly onto your map, drop folders or selected files to add many images at once to your Library. The ability to import and export libraries where assets are already setup with scaling, lighting and shadow settings. Easy to use interface for adding objects to your maps, scaling, moving, rotating and placing them rapidly. Supports a full set of configurable hot keys. Full undo and redo support. Layers to organize objects and environments with the ability to decide which layers cast shadows and are affected by lighting. Draw arbitrarily shaped rooms and easily connect them together. Each room can have its own settings, textures and look. Draw pits, lowered sections, stairs and raised platforms right into your rooms. Procedural liquids to fill your pits and help you create sewers and water ways. Procedural details such as dirt, mold and spider webs. High quality lighting with soft shadows, any object can be a light and any object can cast shadows. High quality ambient occlusion to ground your objects in the map. Seamless exterior and interior maps with layers to support roofs. Multiple maps in one - see maps below the current map with fading or fogging - to give large buildings and dungeons a sense of depth.What systems does this support GPU that supports OpenGL 3.0 or newer Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10. Memory requirements based on art and map size, recommended 4GB or more.What about Mac and Linux?These depend on the demand and interest in the product. Ultimately supporting another platform is time consuming and so can only be done if there is enough interest. 1075eedd30 Title: Arcane MapperGenre: Design & Illustration, Early AccessDeveloper:Arcane ArchitectPublisher:Arcane ArchitectRelease Date: 28 Apr, 2017 Arcane Mapper Free Download [pack] I had hopes for the software since the author first posted about it. Finally got around to buying and trying it out for myself but the program is just frustrating to use to do any design with. If you have an exact idea in mind then I guess it wouldn't be terrible, but the program doesn't even let you move a room without having to delete and redraw the entire thing.. A fantastic program for making maps for tabletop RPGs. As is, it is fantastic and flexible within its limitations. I have already been exploring ways to create outdoor maps and do things probably never intended. So, if you put some thought into it, you can probably get more out of the program than you might think.That being said, I certainly hope my support hasn't been wasted and that development will continue. At this point, it's only been a month and a half since the delay on an update was announced. It's not unusual for these things to happen. Hopefully, by the time you're reading this review, these issues are long past (it's currently October of 2017).. I see a lot of promise for this title. There are many positive aspects about it. It is a very clean interface, with rich and detailed options available. I would certainly recommend it to others. However, I do have a few suggestions. First, I don't see an option to place doors or windows. The current set up requires that you connect rooms via small hallways. Second, the only lighting elements found were torches, sconces, and braziers. What about natural lighting? Third, not every dungeon/castle/building is going to be 100% intact, so could there be some sort of demolish tool where we could create ruins? Fourth, it could use stairs to connect to multiple levels in the same dungeon. Fifth and finally, I'm hoping to see either an expanded doodad library (such as furniture or random things that can be placed in rooms) or at least more DLC stuff boasting the same things. Having said all this, I still rate the product 4/5 stars due to the high quality.. Updated ReviewWell, it appears that the developer has abandoned this product. At this time I can no longer recommend anyone sink any money into this product until after it comes out of early access. Which is something I do not believe will ever happen.Original review below:I'm giving Arcane Mapper a thumbs up for now because I think it has a lot of potential and will be a great way to quickly throw a map together.But for now, it's really not quite there. It regularly freezes up and glitches while drawing walls, making it nearly impossible to complete a map without something going wrong.I'm looking forward to seeing how the updates go in the next few weeks.. When I first saw Arcane Mapper, I was drawn in by its simplistic UI, and its impressive lighting system. This software is great if you intend to make small-scale, simple maps, or rooms for a larger map one at a time. Disappointingly, it seems that the dev has abandoned ship, which is a shame because this software showed great promise, and still does. Hopefully, someday, Arcane Architect will pick up the project or an update will drop that fixes some of the aggravating bugs associated with making larger maps, but until then, I can only recommend this software to those who understand that it is practically abandoned and, while still useable, is a bit frustrating in its current state. For what it is, however, $10 isn't unreasonable, but there are (at least in my opinion) better, more developed tools available for this sort of thing.TL;DR: I can only recommend this software if you accept that it's abandoned and a bit buggy when dealing with larger maps, but IMO, there are better tools available.. Love it!It's really easy to do your own Dungeon map for your next Pen&Paper Round.It might take a while editing and Inporting all the Pictures you want. But if you have everything you need, its very easy and very fast. All i need now is some picture editing programm.Issues:-You cant drag items back. The item will get struck. if you want to remove it just select it and press DEL.-If you Drag room corners you cant put them back. if you want to have them back where you took them, you HAVE to press Strg-z (and even that command kinda doesnt work, i have to click it at the top. but maybe its just my European qwert keyboard. so maybe strg-y works.-It's kinda Impossible to do Ring Rooms-I can't edit tags. like adding or removing them or change their names or something like that. also i couldnt find the tag-search, so i simple click a tag and it filters all items based on the clicked tag(s). I am requesting a refund. This is WAY to buggy, even for an open beta launch. The first dungeon I attempted to create was riddled with problems. There's no bridge support, there's lighting hiccups, missing textures, and a hell of a lot of stuff that was promised that doesn't work. I am appalled at what the devs believed to be okay to show the public. I may purchase again when this is a FUNCTIONING PRODUCT.
- suncwadetompers
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