Recent content by Miaristan

Hi, I'm here because I want to create the equivalent of a MediaWiki online encyclopedia, but through using the MS Word files as the articles/pages of my encyclopedia, since simply using MS Word to write everything feels much more beginner-friendly and cost-saving as compared to buy a host an...

Hi, I'm here because while I'm in the process of creating and describing the different countries (also drawing their borders btw!) that will exist in my fictional world, I struggle to know where to start. However, there is something I found somewhat fascinating is that in the real world, there...

Maybe could I answer your five questions. 1) I would certainly want the registered users to edit the pages, more akin to a social community. 2) In fact, I intend to make it so huge that I could forget about doing it alone and would certainly need more people to contribute to the creation of my...

My website is hosted by Hostinger, which provides a file manager for WP websites for those who would need to look for the PHP code. I had to modify the PHP code only once (to fix an issue with auto-updates for my themes, plugins, and WP version), but the thing is as compared to building a...

I'm here because I aspire to write and publish an encyclopedia about my fantasy world. Seasoned worldbuilding artists often think of WorldAnvil, Inkarnate, etc. but when I checked, I noticed they were very limited and constrained in features and maximum number of contributors. So, instead, I...

Hi, I'm here because since I had the idea of creating a fictional world based in a planet similar to Earth with the inhabitants being technically humans but with the ability to master one of the four classical elements (fire, earth, wind, and water). I would also intend to allow the...

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...