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Vintyri™ Enhancements for Fractal Mapper™ 9 |
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Fractal
Mapper 8 users: The Vintyri
add-ons for Fractal Mapper 9
will not work with Fractal Mapper
8. You can download the FM8 versions here: https://www.vintyri.org/vintyri/fm_addons.htm |
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The
Vintyri Project™ offers Fractal
Mapper 9 users a free, extensive tutorial for raster mapping with FM9 and three free collections with
more than 27,000 new mapping symbols and fill patterns. Some of the products are creations of the Vintyri Project; others are creations
of fellow RPG cartographers. All
these products are freeware. They cost
nothing and are licensed for personal and commercial use. The license models vary from one product to
another. You can scan this page and see what's available,
one item at a time, or use one of these links to go directly to the
information and download links for a certain product: ·
Tutorial: Raster Mapping with Fractal Mapper
9, including sample files. ·
Bogie's Mapping Objects, a collection of fantastically
high-quality symbols and fill patterns from one of the best and most
respected cartographers in the internet. Also included is Bogie's Redthorn Tavern collection, considered by many
to be he definitive set of symbols for mapping inn
and tavern floorplans. This is not a Vintyri product; it is distributed
under license. ·
CSUAC and Dundjinni Archives, a
huge collection of more than 26,000 fantasy RPG symbols and fill patterns
created by users of the Dundjinni cartographic program (no longer
available) and posted in the Dundjinni Forum (no longer
existent). The compilations are by
Cecil Solomon and Daniel Pryor. This is not a Vintyri product; it is distributed
under license. · Vintyri
Cartographic Collection 3.0. A
sizeable collection of symbols and fill patterns with special but not
exclusive emphasis upon mapping cities, villages, interiors and
dungeons. It also includes large
libraries of symbols and fill patterns for winter scenes and for ruins. This is a Vintyri Project product. |
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Raster Mapping with Fractal Mapper 9
Prerequisite: To do the learn-by-doing exercises in the
tutorial, one must download the three free add-ons below. After the installation, one will have more
than 27,000 new symbols and fill patterns … and one will determine after a
while that this still isn't enough.
One day, that particular symbol that you need
won't be among the 27,000+ objects that you've installed. The tutorial tells you how to do a
needle-in-the-haystack search for what you need, and, if you still haven't
found it, where and how to search for it.
You also may need graphical mapping objects that fit a special theme,
one that isn't covered at all in the collections below. The tutorial tells you how to find them,
regardless of whether they're free or commercial products that you can buy. Get it here
https://www.vintyri.org/vintyri/fm9tutorial.htm (1 MB) |
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This
collection was created by Dan Roy, a.k.a. Bogie. For years he was one of the top creators of
symbols and fill patterns in the now discontinued Dundjinni Forums. In
recent years, his work has been available instead through the online Cartographers Guild
and Deviant Art. This
download includes Bogie's fill patterns and his standard mapping symbols as
well as his Redthorn Tavern collection, considered in most
RPG cartographic circles to be the definitive set for making battlemaps of
taverns and inns. The collection is
free. It is licensed for private and
commercial use. The
download ZIP file includes the Setup
program and an installation guide. If
you installed FM9 in a location other than the default (C:\Program
Files\nbos), we
strongly urge you to read the
installation guide before installing!
If you fail to follow the instructions there, you will install to a
wrong location and Fractal Mapper 9
will be unable to find Bogie's symbols and fill patterns. If you installed FM9 in the default location (C:\Program Files\nbos), simply click Install in the setup
program and the rest of the installation will run automatically. Download
here: https://www.vintyri.org/downloads/BMO_FM9.zip (262 MB)
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This
is the mega-collection of free cartographer-created symbols and fill patterns
for fantasy RPG battlemaps and for modern and outer space cartography. In the late 1990s
and into the first decade of the 2000s, Dundjinni
was the leading cartographic program for making fantasy mappers. A main source in those days for mapping
symbols and fill patterns was the Dundjinni Forum. Over several years Dundjinni users
contributed more than 30,000 symbols and fill patterns that were available
for free download from the forum. Some of these were
offered for private use only, but the majority were offered by their creators
for personal and commercial use. A few
Dundjinni Forum members, above all Cecil Solomon and Daniel Pryor,
canvassed the creators of the symbols that were available for personal and
commercial use. They were given the
right to collate them into collections that they could distribute free for
personal and commercial use under licensed conditions. The first of these collections was made by
Cecil Solomon and called the CSUAC (Cecil Solomon's User Art
Collection). Daniel Pryor then
continued where Cecil left off with the Dundjinni Archives. We
have discontinued offering a Setup
program for this collection. Its large
content of nearly 27,000 files triggers blockage by some anti-virus and
malware programs, making it impossible for some cartographers to install
it. For that reason, we offer the
collection instead in a huge ZIP file (5,7 GB). To install, download the ZIP file and unzip
it into: C:\Program
Files\nbos\Mapper9 This
operation requires Windows
administrator rights! Download
here: https://www.vintyri.org/downloads/csuac_da_3.zip (5.7 GB) |
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Vintyri Cartographic Collection 3.0
The
Vintyri Cartographic Collection is a free set of hundreds of symbols
and fill patterns with the main emphasis on buildings and the tools needed to
map villages, cities, etc. in typical architecture of the European Middle
Ages, which in turn is the basic style of many fantasy RPG campaign
settings. The collection also includes
a wide variety of fill patterns for use in creating overland maps. Version 3.0 adds numerous new symbols and
fill patterns in the additional categories of ruins and for winter
adventures. The new material is designed
for: • Creating maps of villages, cities and
other settlements that have been abandoned or destroyed and are in a state of
ruin and collapse. • Creating maps of campaign areas where it
recently has snowed. • Creating maps of villages and other
settlements that are in a state of ruin and that are under snow. The
symbols of ruins are available with clean roofs, mossy roofs and snow-covered
roofs. The
download ZIP file includes the Setup
program and an installation guide. If
you installed FM9 in a location other than the default (C:\Program
Files\nbos), we
strongly urge you to read the
installation guide before installing!
If you fail to follow the instructions there, you will install to a wrong location and Fractal
Mapper 9 will be unable to find the symbols and fill patterns. If you installed FM9 in the default location (C:\Program Files\nbos), simply click Install in the setup
program and the rest of the installation will run automatically. Download
here: https://www.vintyri.org/downloads/VCC3_0_FM9.zip (740 MB) |
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