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AndyZ
post Sep 22 2009, 09:07 AM
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I'm running an SR4A game online and folks have requested that I make maps of the various areas so that they know where their characters can go and leave maneuvering room. Does anyone know of a good program other than MSPaint which could pull this off, or perhaps images that I could use for it?

I really don't want to use MSPaint for this...

It doesn't have to be made for 2072 usage. I'll settle for modern era if it can draw a nice map of a few city blocks with abandoned vehicles and various obstacles.
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post Sep 22 2009, 09:37 AM
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Depending on what you're doing, I use Google Maps for road and location maps and just copy the link into IRC. As for doing your own artwork there is always GIMP for Windows.
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post Sep 22 2009, 03:49 PM
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I've used power point, it is not that hard, and very useful when designing muti-story buildings.
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post Sep 22 2009, 10:46 PM
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Isn't Powerpoint for slides?
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post Sep 22 2009, 11:32 PM
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I've seen some pretty neat campaigns done up in Google Maps using their tools. Just pick a section of an existing city, use that street layout, and then put markers and such in there to do locations and whatnot.
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post Sep 23 2009, 12:31 AM
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HERE is a recent thread that discussed some of the map tool options available...

Personally, I use Google Map images as a base, a variety of sources for vector objects (noted in the other thread) and Photoshop to slap it all together. You can see some examples HERE.
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post Sep 23 2009, 08:51 PM
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I'm also another person who uses google maps a bit for getting the street maps.
Though the place where we play has a whiteboard along with lots of different magnets that I've also been drawing a lot on there also rather than just whipping out a handout map.
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