City Map Builder Guides

Looking to get started with the City Map Builder but need some tips? Here you will find quick video guides and tutorials to aid you in your journey to create your own city & village maps for your story!

Tutorials
Creating a River On Your City Maps with The City Map Builder
Creating a River On Your City Maps with The City Map Builder

What is the best way to create a river on your map using the City Map Builder? Adding buildings, forests, and other features is pretty straight forward, but how do you add something like a stream flowing through your settlement? In this tutorial I’ll walk you through my favorite method so you can easily add some interesting rivers to your maps!

How to Create and Shade City Walls
How to Create and Shade City Walls

In this tutorial, I will show you how to build fortifications for your settlement using the brushes included in the City Map Builder. And even if you don’t own that particular tool, there will be plenty to glean and apply to your own hand-drawn city maps!

How to Create a Hill Shrine with the City Map Builder
How to Create a Hill Shrine with the City Map Builder

How can you use the grassland brushes included in the City Map Builder to create a Hill Shrine? Here you’ll find some tips on using the grassland brushes so you can begin using them to create interesting settings of your own on your fantasy maps.
And if you’re drawing everything by hand rather than using the map builder, stick around and you’ll find a lot of helpful tips you can apply to your own work.

 

Quick Video Guides

 
 

Procreate

 

Photoshop

 

Installing Your Brushes - IPad

 

Written Walkthrough

I. Download and unzip your City Map Builder folder on your Ipad or computer.

II. Open the file and navigate to the folder named “Brushes”.

III. Select either Photoshop, Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, or Affinity, depending on the app you will use.

Photoshop

Simply double click on the .ABR file, and this will import all the brushes which you can find in it’s own folder in your brush panel.

Procreate

Open each of the .BRUSHSET files which will automatically import into Procreate, each in it’s own separate folder in your brush library.

Clip Studio Paint

Open CSP and select the Brush tool. On the Sub Tool panel select the three stacked horizontal lines in the upper left corner. In the drop-down menu navigate to Import Sub Tool which will open up your files. Find where you saved your City Map Builder file and open each of the .ABR brush files included in the City Builder to import all of your brushes.

Affinity Photo

Double click and open each of the .AFBRUSHES files, and this will open and import them automatically into Affinity Photo. You will find each set in their own folder in your brush panel.

 
 

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