Does there exist a browser based online hex map making tool?

27 thoughts on “Does there exist a browser based online hex map making tool?”

1. Hexographer, it is free for a lot of functionality.

2. Can’t make it work in linux :S

3. Ah that sucks.

4. Indeed. It looked awesome 🙁

5. Why do you need hexes? Seems a bit more precise than DW leans. Though I love me some Mystara.

6. Hex maps work great for DW.

7. Because hexes are easier to navigate. If you draw a direct line from the center of two hexes, all hexes under the line is part of a shortest path. Not so much with squares.

8. With squares you can calculate the exact distance from center to center by sqrt(vertical distance^2 + horizontal distance^2), but no one calculates square roots of non-square numbers in their head.

9. Why any grid at all? No squares, no hexes, just hastily scribbled maps.

10. Squares – if diagonals cost 3 units, and orthagonal costs 2 units, that approximates the sqrt(2) for most distances.

11. Mapping software is better for online games or digital heavy games.

12. Also a six mile hex is one ration’s length.

13. It still takes a lot of time deciding which fields are within distance x of some center. If you remember counting squares from D&D. Hexes are just much easier IMO.

14. Hexographer doesn’t work in linux? It is java based and while it has been a while I recall it working with Ubuntu.

15. For me, the definition of “a ration a day” is precise enough. A nice road and I can make 15 to 20 miles walking; heavy mountains or hills and 6 miles might be 3 days travel.

    I don’t we’re on the same page on this. And that’s OK.

    How well would Inkscape work for you? You might need to find or make a map-symbols template, but would it work for you.

16. Josh Mannon that sounds about right. When hiking with a heavy load (i.e. survival grade), you are better off walking less than 10 km per day. You can push your limits, but it’s fatiguing.

    I talk from experience. Me and my wife traveled 240 km in six days once, with about 20 kg of equipment. We where so utterly destroyed when we set camp that if we sat down for 10 minutes, our legs got so stiff we could barely stretch them.

17. This was in a mountain region in germany. While we didn’t scale any sheer surfaces, we rarely walked on even road.

18. Yeah that is an overland estimate with avoiding minor features (ponds, patches of woods, etc.) while carrying what you would need in that environment.

19. Here’s method that I use for abstract mapping with hexes that I think might play well with Dungeon World:

    http://www.necropraxis.com/2013/04/10/solipsistic-hexes/

20. Matt Maranda It claims to work on linux, but when I try to download it, something entirely different happens than stated on the website.

21. Hi Kasper, 

    I made Hexographer working on my Ubuntu Linux. I open it with IcedTea Java

    Look at this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/Silerias/Capturedu2013-04-12184236.png

22. that cool wallpaper made me feel nostalgic about avatar.

23. Grégoire Pinson Made it work by installing icedtea and downloading the file. Stupid google chrome wouldn’t let me execute it without downloading 🙂

24. I’m really happy I could help 😀

25. Grégoire Pinson  ‘Preciate’d 🙂

26. I’m trying to remember what site created this map…  http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a210/WaiguodeSmoothie/511462a9c73b9eac_zps857cf2df.png

27. Ah, this is it:  http://donjon.bin.sh/world/ 

    Hope that helps.

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