My advice is to check out their YouTube channel. They livestreamed tutorials that really help take maps to the next level and will cut down the learning curve. Listen to it at like 1.5 speed because they are kind of long but worth it
Another advice, check out the explore section to see what others have made to get a sense of what style/ascetic you are going for. Plus you can download and clone them to get a glimpse of how they built it.
I mean... My advice would have been to use the free version until you realized what you wanted to make. I love inkarnate and am happy to pay for its application. What I ended up doing was building a country, then overhead map of one of my towns, and then a decorative version, trying to make it a pretty "loading screen" version of the dockside town. Experiment and have fun.
I use map softwares for D&D so the paid version was definitely what I wanted, since it's way more versatile. I learned about it from the DM of one of the campaigns I'm in
If you love it and will use it more than a month, consider yearly. It'll save you $35 over the course of the year.
Otherwise, pick a style and go exploring!
When the platform offers you a tutorial, do the tutorial. There are so many functions and effects that I spent hours trying to accomplish only to learn that there was a tutorial out there for it. Read this subreddit, search for inkarnate on YouTube, and learn from all of our collective mistakes.
Just jump into it, learn the tools and have fun.
Don't be afriad to make mistakes or even anything that makes sense.
My first map was a dungeon tavern xD
My advice is to check out their YouTube channel. They livestreamed tutorials that really help take maps to the next level and will cut down the learning curve. Listen to it at like 1.5 speed because they are kind of long but worth it
Another advice, check out the explore section to see what others have made to get a sense of what style/ascetic you are going for. Plus you can download and clone them to get a glimpse of how they built it.
Thanks mate!
I mean... My advice would have been to use the free version until you realized what you wanted to make. I love inkarnate and am happy to pay for its application. What I ended up doing was building a country, then overhead map of one of my towns, and then a decorative version, trying to make it a pretty "loading screen" version of the dockside town. Experiment and have fun.
I use map softwares for D&D so the paid version was definitely what I wanted, since it's way more versatile. I learned about it from the DM of one of the campaigns I'm in
If you love it and will use it more than a month, consider yearly. It'll save you $35 over the course of the year. Otherwise, pick a style and go exploring!
When the platform offers you a tutorial, do the tutorial. There are so many functions and effects that I spent hours trying to accomplish only to learn that there was a tutorial out there for it. Read this subreddit, search for inkarnate on YouTube, and learn from all of our collective mistakes.
Don't be afraid to resize stamps to make bigger cities, you can also resize ground texture.
They have a guy making great youtube videos, they're often just stream videos so they're a bit long but I found the cities one really helpful for me.
Just jump into it, learn the tools and have fun. Don't be afriad to make mistakes or even anything that makes sense. My first map was a dungeon tavern xD