Making the World Map?

[chungsie]

Anyone have a suggestion for how to make a large world map on a Walmart laptop? anything over 5kx5kpx in gimp and it goes super slow. I was hoping to work with 12kx7k px for my world map. What software should I try that is cheap or free?

 

[Amarok]

you should post the specs of your laptop when asking technical questions, because i have no idea how powerful a walmart laptop is.
But generally speaking 12kx7x is a huge picture, i have never used gimp either so no idea if its your hardware or the software, but maybe you can give Krita a try since its free and pretty powerful. Photoshop handles very big pictures quite well, though not free.

 

[chungsie]

I've got 2gb gpu and 4gb ram. no idea on the cpu, but it's not that great. I will give Krita a look, thank you.

 

[Amarok]

i see, then yeah with those specs anything over 2k is probably going to lag, if you can add more ram memory to it that would probably help, though not much.

 

[taarna23]

A couple things to note... huge maps are not as much fun as they sound anyway - seriously, make a basic max-size map in the editor, then wander it. For some clarity, the Final Fantasy 6 world map is 4128 x 4128, and the Chrono Trigger world map is 1536 x 1024. Chrono Trigger gets away with a much smaller map, for having multiple iterations of it. Final Fantasy 6's world was quite large and took a long time to explore.

As for your laptop, that 2G for the GPU is likely shared RAM, which means if the graphics card needs up to that 2G, it's taking it out of that 4G of RAM that you have. Large images take up a huge amount of RAM no matter what program you use. You may not be able to work on something so large with the machine you have.

 

[chungsie]

I think I meant so I can flesh out the details, not really as a scaled drawing per say. I think the smart thing for me to do is just the ace map editor for simplicity purposes. I don't know, sometimes I overthink things.