Recent content by Miaristan

Hi, I ask this question because I recently installed Unreal Engine 5 which, as powerful as the software is, doesn't require a subscription (which means this is almost entirely free), but will instead impose 5% fees if a creative project earns more than one million dollars. Besides for video...

Finally, it just happened when I drew the national borders of my fictional map in my "borders" layer, I forgot to also draw the coastal borders for the same layer. But I finally solved the issue by using the sea and land layers, using the magic wand tool and using the "contour" option to draw...

Hi, I ask this question because I wanted to select the magic wand tool because I remembered this is how I was able to select what was supposed to be water or land in a fictional map. But after I draw the demarcated borders for my fictional map, I now want to select only the piece of land of a...

Good news! I just found a website where we can find fantasy brushes for Photoshop from Janssonius that are licensed under the CC0 license, which I feel could help me a lot. So, thanks for your answers, and have a good day!

Hi. I just made some searches, and it seems this is possible to download Photoshop brushes more adapted for fantasy maps, but the issue is I'm afraid they are owned by other artists so I could probably not use them, let alone for commercial projects.

I could say that if I prefer using Photoshop, this is because it allows us to create images, photos, and maps with more than 10-20,000 pixels, which is technically impossible especially for Inkarnate and Wonderdraft, and even in MS Paint, it would create too much risk of the file crashing the...

Hi, I ask this question because I noticed that in Wonderdraft, there is the possibility to use brushes to draw mountain ranges and forests by using specific types of mountains and trees, while in Photoshop, we would rather have to draw them manually in an old-fashioned way. That said, do you...

I exactly had the idea to create something like "mega empires" or "military confederations" which would rule over their affiliated villages, while these villages could retain more or less political autonomy. Also, these villages are not necessarily constrained to manage on their own (in the...

Hi, I post this threat because I recently advanced a lot in my fictional universe. I could say I intend to make a whole world with about 900-1,000 villages. Noting that in the context of my fictional universe, a "village" could be about the equivalent of a nation or community, and I had the...

Hi, I ask this question because I need to make a map for my fantasy world. That said, I plan to make a fantasy world with about 400 countries and territories and most map making tools such as Inkarnate, Worldspinner, Azgaar's, and so on, seem not really adapted for creators who need to make...

Hi, This is something I wish to understand because while when we talk, listen, read, or write about monarchies, we often reference to kingdoms, but perhaps less known is that there are also what we call principalities (monarchies ruled by princes or princesses), as well as duchies and emirates...

Hi, I ask this question because I have plenty of worldbuilding ideas for my project, and one of these ideas would be to create a fictional world and imagine what would happen if instead having about 200 nations, our world had more than thousands nations and communities. The idea I had was to...