This month we have 30 new hills assets. These are super versatile and can be used around mountain edges, or in open areas of the map (perhaps with some transparency) to provide some texture and flavor.
Here's a sample of the some of the hills in combination with s...
2023-11-07 20:09:12 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a pretty large pack this month (which means Patreon can't handle it). It's Fall season, so I figured we'd do some fall-colored texture tiles. Plus I've had a few requests from people working on some deserty maps...so this month is Wastelands Texture Tiles!
85 Total Assets!
Full Pack DOWNLOAD →→ 2023-10-08 22:56:47 +0000 UTC View Post
It's finally here! Welcome to Isometric Hills, wooooo! I've done a lot of Iso Mountains and Volcanoes and some Canyons, but until we had not wee little hills. So here ya go. I did some quick (rough) sample of hills next to mountains, but they also work glorious in plains and grasslands where you'd have kills and no mountains. You could probably use some for sand dunes as well. Some are more rocky/harsh, others are softer and more bubbly.
26 Total Assets!
Hi all, just wanted to give an update of the new September pack. It's a little later this month due to being out of town for Labor Day weekend. This month we're doing Isometric Hills! Yay! Highly requested, and as you can see in the image they pair very well the Hero Iso Mountains. I had originally planned to get the pack out today, but I discovered a neat trick to getting some more rounded subtle hills compared to something that just looks like smaller mount...
2023-09-07 04:49:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Happy summer is almost over month! This month I'm throwing out some more pre-colored mountain assets similar to my Modular Land Swaths (Temperate biome) pack, but these are a little more modular (and only mountains) that work well combined on top of the included land texture tiles. This gives you much more freedom in blending mountains and the surrounding textures.
I wanted to inc...
2023-08-07 00:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew, long weekend with family and finally got a chance to get this pack out. This month we have Hero Mountains and Volcanoes!! I've had people asking for isometric volcanoes, so I figured I'd also add some larger "Hero" mountains in a pack with them. These hero mountains are more singular peaks in nature and less "mountain rangey". I did kind of size them to match the other Iso packs in case you wanted to use them to extend ranges. But all you have to do to make them HERO size is scale down ...
2023-07-06 08:42:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy summer all! Finally got this new pack done, and here it is! This one is slightly different. Welcome to prefab landmasses. Basically, I created a bunch of continents that can be combined in a graphics program with very little effort. You basically overlap as you see fit, and soft erase the edges of the landmass on top to get a nice seamless blend.
TIPS: To use texture tiles underneath the solid (black and white) assets, simply set their layer blend to "Mul... 2023-06-05 09:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings all! Here's the new May pack! This month we're doing some desert-ish textures (the normal transparent kind not the full colored tiles). These are great for arid/desert biomes and also work wonderful for texturing underwater and ocean floors.
38 Total Assets!
Full Pack (includes Photosho...
2023-05-06 09:10:40 +0000 UTC View PostIsometric Assets
Greetings all! Here's the new April asset release! This month we have another Isometric Pack. Some of these are a little more low-profile mountains that work great on the ends of mountain ranges to give everything a little more build up to the larger peaks.
Also included is a few canyon and cliff type iso assets. First time I've tried isometric in a concave sense, but I think they look pretty neat (see example image). I'm sure more creative mappers than me can do some awesome stuff with...
2023-04-05 07:06:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all! This month we have some hills assets, something that's been a bit lacking. These assets span a wider swath of hills for those areas of your maps surrounding mountains, or for areas that need some texture but mountains are just too large.
Kind of a selfish release since I've been needing to cover some hill lands in a few maps I'm working with lol. But I've had a few request for something along these line as well.
34 Total Assets!
2K Land Texture Tiles (2048x2048)
Hi all, it's time for more highly requested Land Texture Tiles!
This is a MASSIVE pack (topping 1GB!), full of awesome land textures to go with pack one. They go perfect with all the regular topographic assets too. Makes it super easy to paint them all up without the hassle of having to paint at all!
Check out the tutorial on how to use these tiles (2023-02-03 12:51:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 2023 fellow cartographers! A little late this month, but it was a busy holiday season with family. I think it was worth the wait though, because I was able to pile a bit more assets than usually into this pack!
I've had quite a few people itching to get more cliffs assets, so that's what we're throwing out this month. The BIG Cliffs are a lot more impressive in scale/height than my other ones. The asset size isn't any larger, but the shadows are much taller, which gives the assets...
2023-01-06 08:11:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all, just wanted to give a quick update on the January pack! Usually I have the packs out by the 3rd or so, but with the holidays and being out of town, then having family in town, January's pack is slightly delayed. But it will be here in a day or two!
The Jan pack will be BIG Cliffs. I emphasize "Big" not in the size of the assets, per say, but rather in the scale/height of the cliffs. If you'll notice in the sample image on this post, the cliff shadows ar...
2023-01-05 07:11:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings fellow cartographers! Finally got around to making this official post (Download links were sent out in DMs on the 3rd). To all those that have joined since...sorry it took so long!
This month we have pre-fab (fully rendered, color and all) cavern assets to create neat underground maps! I'm almost done making a video tutorial on how I use it and how to set it up in Wonderdraft, but for now just check out the reference images in zip file.
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2022-12-09 04:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Just wanted to share a sneak peak of what I'll be releasing for December! Anyone who loves them some Underdark/Underground maps...rejoice, for we have pre-fab underground caverns!
All caverns will have 2 variation (regular and lake), and a lot will have 4 variations (regular, lake, meadow/forest, molten). I was originally do just the regular and lake and started making those assets, but then I started playing around with the meadow/flora and molten version and loved how it turned out, t...
2022-12-01 17:09:58 +0000 UTC View Post
So I realized it's been a LONG time since I did any original topographic mountains. A lot of features and methods have changed since the last pack, resulting in MUCH better quality mountains...so, this is long overdue!
This pack actually matches the quality found in the "Big Ranges" packs unlike pack 1 and 2. Because of this, these are much more modular and you can easily make your own BIG ranges with them. Yup, more versatility = MORE better!
Grab the files directly in this post,...
2022-11-04 02:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post
A treat for those who have Sci-Fi campaigns going...PLANETS! That's right, we're talking 4K hi-res, highly detailed planets, ringed planets, and moons for all you galaxy mapping needs! You can drag them into Photoshop, or throw the png folder into Wonderdraft to use as symbols (yes, you can absolutely make galaxy maps in Wonderdraft).
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38 Total Assets!
I've had a ton of requests for volcanos, so that's what I rolled with this time. And since I was making a few moon maps, I decided to throw in crater fields as well! Some of the Volcano assets can also serve as single crater impact sites, which might be kind of fin. That second picture up top kind of looks like a crater impact.
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26 Total Assets!
Full Pack (including Photoshop Brush File) - Download 2022-09-07 16:46:50 +0000 UTC View Post
A little late on the post, but here's the August release!
Finally got around to doing more forests, wooo! Happy little homes for your woodland creatures. These are mostly modular (just utilize layers if using Wonderdraft). These are pre-colored assets. I tried to design them for local regional maps as well as working decent for larger scale. You can still get some good detail using them up close too!
184 Total Assets!
I finally got around to making some good river brushes! They work great and I've been using them like crazy! Along with the river brushes, I've added a few biome blending brushes. These are the brushes I use on layer masks to blend the texture tiles.
As a bonus, because I wanted to get them out but they weren't really enough for a standalone pack, I've included some "Mountain Topper" texture tiles. These are various colors of mountain peaks so you can get some rocky tops. I'm pretty hap...
2022-07-12 00:18:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Yup, it's time to ROCK ON! Here's some awesome rock land features!
2K Resolution!
This was a fun one! I love rocks (especially costal rocks), and realized I hadn't really done too many regional assets...so rocks were perfect for this. Very versatile! I imagine they could be used for cool world map land features, but the especially shine in the closer region/city/area maps! The details are super cool and they are actually pretty modular (even though that was kind o...
2022-06-03 01:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! I dropped this like a week ago and posted it in the Discord, but completely forgot to make a post about it here. I know not everyone is in the Discord, so yeah...here it is!
It's a super long video (1h 20m), but I explain a lot and then go through the making of "most" a map sharing the techniques I use. Hopefully after watching it you can quickly start applying these methods to your own work!
Cheers!
Mazlo
2022-06-01 21:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
So I had some time to play around with the texture tiles in preparation for a tutorial video. I think it turned out pretty darn decent for an hour of work while binge watching Leverage :)
Could be a lot better if I wasn't rushing it, but the goal has always been to provide ways to make realistic maps with relative speed...so I stuck with speed. I must admit, I'm pretty darn impressed with how the texture tiles work. Very versatile.
2022-05-08 08:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
2K Land Texture Tiles (2048x2048)
Hi all, here's the May pack release. Most of you already have this in your DMs with the download link, but I didn't have time to make the official Patreon post until now.
This month is a little different, but something very highly requested. I've had people waiting for a long time to get their hands on the topographic/satellite texture tiles I use in some of my videos and to give my maps a very realistic look. I hope it was worth ...
2022-05-05 06:19:37 +0000 UTC View Post
High Resolution!
Have had a lot of request for more isometric mountains, so here they are! This pack is a little different from the first iso pack in the sense that these are more mountain rangey than single peaks. I couldn't get them quite as high resolution as usual due to not being able to save/export at an isometric angle. Only way to manage it was to result to taking screenshots at the angle of choice. But they still work great once you add some color (or if you sc...
2022-04-03 02:11:02 +0000 UTC View Post
2K Resolution!
It's been a LONG time since I've done any cliffs, so here are some much better quality cliffs than my last cliff pack. I've also included some dry lake beds just because...they are awesome! You could even fill them with water and make then NOT dry lake beds. Oh, and I figured I'd throw in some plateaus too (comprised of cliffs). See how fun cliffs are!?
24 Total Assets!
Full Pack - Download 2022-03-04 02:44:33 +0000 UTC View Post
So, let's see...how fast can we add an arid plateau in this otherwise temperate landscape? Turns out, pretty dawn fast. Under a 2 minutes easily!
Anywho, that's the next pack. I'm trying my best to get them out before I go to sleep tonight. Sadly I forgot all about Feb only having 28 days and I borked up my planning. Doh! If I don't make it out today I'll be releasing them tomorrow.
2022-03-03 06:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post
2K Resolution!
They are like mountains, only more puny. Folk around here call them hills. They are also super nice to put in areas of your maps at the base of mountains or in plains who attempted to turn into mountains but got cold feet. Either way, enjoy them!
27 Total Assets!
Full Pack - Download HERE
Photoshop Brush Pack - Download 2022-02-02 10:17:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, look, the official post is finally out! Everyone should have received a direct download link via DM, but if not, well...here you have it!
Also, the "More BIGGER Ranges" is pronounced in a thick Russian accent because in Russia mountains climb YOU!
The goal with this pack was to make mountain ranges that were larger and more expansive, rather than the previous big ranges that mostly consisted of a single ridge/peak. These also w...
2022-01-05 09:40:14 +0000 UTC View Post