What Building Map Icons Would You Like?
For the past few weeks I’ve been working with artist Keith Curtis (who does a lot of the art for Hexographer & Dungeonographer) on a bunch of new building icons. Many will be included in Hexographer to improve its city mapping functionality. For a long time Hexographer has had simple buildings of different shapes and roof textures built-in. A couple of weeks ago, I added the first batch (18) of new building icons.
The goal is to have built-into Hexographer icons that match (in theme/purpose and general shape) most of the Pathfinder Kingmaker building icons used for city/domain management. Here is their list of the larger buildings/areas: Arena, Castle, Cathedral, Waterfront, Academy, Garrison, Guildhall, Market, Noble Villa, Temple, Theater & Town hall. And here is the list of regular buildings/areas: Alchemist, Barracks, Black Market, Brewery, Brothel, Caster’s Tower, Dump, Exotic Craftsman, Granary, Graveyard, Herbalist, House, Inn, Jail, Library, Luxury Store, Magic Shop, Mansion, Mill, Monument, Park, Pier, Shop, Shrine, Smith, Stable, Tannery, Tavern, Tradesman, Tenement & Watchtower.
Pictured here is a sample of one of the images. The regular sized buildings will be 300×300 pixel PNG images so even if you use them in a printed map each building can be 1″ in size without losing detail by enlarging it beyond the original size. Larger buildings will be 600×600 pixels. The plan is to also offer them for a small fee along with many variations of each as a separate download. The variants would give you many more options if you’re using Hexographer. But in case you prefer a more general image editing program or other map editing software you’ll have the images built-into Hexographer and all the variations.
So what building types are missing? I don’t think we’re going for a level of detail of showing a general store vs. a clothing only store. I do already plan to include some icons that are just walls and pieces of the castle or towers so you can make a keep/castle in/near your town more unique. These could also be used to make town walls. But I definitely want to know if we’re overlooking something.
It would be super cool if the icons that are pieces of of castle or towers correspond with ACKS stronghold structure costs table.
Interesting. Please link or describe it some more!
It would be good as you add new images and icons to make it really clear what the licensing is for these icons — can these icons be used for commercial maps for indie RPG publishers, or are they for personal use only?
@Stan: see the end user license agreement, linked right below the order buttons on the Hexographer website. Here’s a direct link: http://www.hexographer.com/end_user_license.shtml
Section 7 does grant the use you describe.
Ah, OK. That’s cool. From a marketing perspective, you might want to call that out on your product description since I never read the End User License Agreement before I buy a product, and I wouldn’t buy the product if I didn’t realize it could produce a commercial map.
a mine, lumber yard, bridge, barn, and storehouse would be good.