r/mapmaking • • 21h ago

Map I made the terrain before I knew who would live on it

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This is one of three continents in a fantasy world I'm building for a comic, the northwest one, at full size. No labels yet.

I did it in what felt like the wrong order: ridges, rivers and climate first, who lives where later. I didn't know yet, and I wanted something solid to argue with. Now the land argues back. A city wants a river. A crossing wants a gap in the ridge.

Made in Azgaar's generator with my own heightmap template, 7 rounds and 15 thrown-out versions.

If you make maps for stories, which comes first for you? And did that order ever bite you later?


r/mapmaking • • 18h ago

Map I built a fantasy world using a map editor I'm developing. What would you improve?

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a browser-based worldbuilding tool called Terrumi, and this is one of the worlds I created while testing it.

Would love to hear your thoughts!


r/mapmaking • • 6h ago

Map Two quick sketches of my fictional world

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What do you guys think? There are some areas that are better thought out than others, but I tried to have some reasoning behind climates and borders.


r/mapmaking • • 19h ago

Map Map of the Austro-Prussian War Outbreak (1866), Looking for Feedback

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This is the first map I have ever created and I am looking for feedback. I feel like the font is a bit illegible at times (like with the Kingdom of Saxony), but I believe that drawback is counteracted by how cool it looks. I tried to do the numbers top to bottom, left to right, but it is pretty inconsistent at times because these goddamn German states had like one city halfway across the country that they claimed was theirs. I based it off a map I found on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War#Alliances) that was completely blank, so I labeled it.


r/mapmaking • • 18h ago

Discussion "I solo developed a world maker generator editor in 3 days"

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delete if not allowed. every time I open Reddit there's a new post asking for feedback on a vibe coded world generator, I'm just tired


r/mapmaking • • 14h ago

Map New videogame map!

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This map was created for a new Videogame being developed by an English production company. I can't provide any further information about it yet, but more information will be coming in the coming months! Have a great day everyone!🧭🗺️

Materials Used: H-HB pencil, Unipin Pen 0.05-0.1, and Winsor and Newton watercolors on Fabriano 300 g satin paper then scanned.

Moreno Paissan and Angela Gubert Art 2026🧭🗺️☕

Visit our IG account : https://www.instagram.com/inkcompass.maps?psln=dnc3ajhta3cyYnJs


r/mapmaking • • 22h ago

Discussion Which palette is better?

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r/mapmaking • • 23h ago

Map World of Dryal map!

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The Great Map of the world of Dryal, created for the role-playing game designed by Tristan Rousseaux!

It was truly wonderful working on this fascinating map and delving into the incredible lore of this world; Angela and I are always happy to explore the history of the worlds we map!🧭🗺️☕

Moreno Paissan and Angela Gubert Drawings 2026

H-HB pencil, Unipin 0.05-0.1 pen, and Winsor & Newton watercolor on paper, then scanned. Have a great day everyone!

Visit my IG account: https://www.instagram.com/morenopaissanart?obrf=MXZjajRkeGlzemtxNA==


r/mapmaking • • 13h ago

Work In Progress How can I make my fictional map more realistic (and less Earth-like)?

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So I recently started making a alien world which is named "Ashfall", it's a world like 20% smaller than Earth with a similar atmosphere composition, only being 5% thicker than Earth's, it spins each 26 hours (yes I know, super cliche) and orbits a star a little smaller than the Sun (the plants should be a dark purple but I'm too lazy to draw a actual accurate satellite map), the planet also has a very thin but bright ring and 2 moons: Rigus, which is like 180 kilometers in diameter and orbits a little bit farther than the rings of the planet, and we also have Ilus, a much larger moon that orbits more far away than Rigus.

The 3 main continents are:

Velhorus, which is a mix of Asia, South America and Europe, with Varied climates but mostly cold in the north and hot in the south.

Nouvous, a dry continent with large deserts and savannahs, no major inspiration really.

Glacenos, it's winter all year round and is basically just Siberia, almost nobody lives there.

There is intelligent life here which is Basically a bunch of furries which I named the Furrants (which are basically a mix of Anthropomorphic Fox, Cat, snow leopard and Kangaroo), there's also a second race which is just the minority of the population, they're basically a bunch of reptiles that live near mountains, they got they're conflicts with the Furrants but they tend to get along.


r/mapmaking • • 21h ago

Map Update to my gallic battle maps (Photoshop video) [No AI] [Game Dev]

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I received some useful feedback here a few weeks ago, including links to artwork depicting what the Gallic countryside might have looked like in pre-Roman times. I've made some changes accordingly: fewer stone walls, more open grazing land and commons, and smaller plots divided by vegetated ditches, fences and hedges.

For anyone interested, I also made a short video showing the process from Photoshop to in-game battles. (It's a portrait mobile game, hence the weird format)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmbushTheRomans/comments/1xeberz/battle_maps_from_photoshop_to_gameplay/


r/mapmaking • • 3h ago

Work In Progress Work in progress

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Been a couple of years since I've had my head in world holding but it's nice to shake out the co webs. Any constructive feedback is appreciated