Hexographer 2/Worldographer’s UI Update

As you may have heard (based on our prior posts) Hexographer 2, aka Worldographer, is coming soon.  (No definitive ETA yet because we want to have a good demo version ready.)  You can get more information and sign up for the official announcement email at this link.

The “shapes” controls pictured here shows off the cleaner look to Hexographer 2’s user interface.  There are a bunch of additional options on the screen now (the ability to do different shadow effects covers most of them), but for the most part if you know how to work with Hexographer, you’ll know Hexographer 2. Its important to preserve what’s good in the user interface because the most common compliment of the software is how quickly people can make a first map.

However, we want to keep the tool approachable.  So even those extra options for shadows are in a separate column and they don’t need to be adjusted if you don’t want a shadow.  All of the controls will provide live feedback–so if you’re creating or editing a shape already on the map, you’ll see the changes on the map immediately.  This is good because it lets you quickly see exactly what each setting does.