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Originally Posted by adhdguitar
This question is more of an opinionated one, but how should I go about making a new map. I have this lazy habit of not wanting to completely wipe the map clean, since I hate making all those dang trees from scratch. >.< But anyway, I just can't seem to come up with a good map. How should I go about planning it out?
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Well, I usually end up daydreaming places that I could have in my hack. I can kind of scribble the general shape of mountains and water on a piece of paper, and then I clean off a map and try to follow the general idea of my plotting. If I'm forced to come up with an idea for a route or something on the spot, I take some kind of tile (whether it's a water or a mountain tile) and just kind of drag it across the screen, as if those were the outlines of my river/lake/mountain whatever. After that, you clean it up, and then there's an outline for you to go off of. And if it didn't work, I clean off the map again and try again. If you can't get it at all, I'd advise taking a little break and coming back to it later. Sometimes, time away helps provide ideas or insight.
On the trees: you know that you can hit CTRL and right click (drag, actually) to highlight a bunch of tiles? You can basically copy and paste trees in this manner, and it's significantly easier to do trees.