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This release adds Journeys – a way to plan and measure travel across the map – and completes the migration of map styling from the rendered SVG into stored data. As always, old .map files keep loading and are upgraded automatically. Journeys A journey is a named route across the map, drawn on its ow

This release is different from the previous ones. Most of the work since v1.140.0 went into the codebase itself: large chunks of the original JavaScript were rewritten in TypeScript, the generation order was turned into declared data, and layer handling was unified. As always, old .map files keep lo

Economy, Trade, Markets, and Navigable Rivers This is the biggest update in a while: your maps now have an economy simulated. Burgs produce and manufacture goods, regional markets set prices and move surpluses around, trade flows are animated across the map, states collect taxes into a treasury, and

The 3D scene mode got two new features: Eroded Terrain and Satellite Texture. Both are opt-in, view-only: your map data is never changed, this is purely about how it's displayed in 3D. You'll find both as new checkboxes in 3D mode settings (press O while in 3D scene). Eroded Terrain Before (classic

Fantasy Map Generator continues to evolve. Here is an overview of the latest changes. Jagged Coastlines The most important update is the new coastline fracturing system. Instead of perfectly smooth Voronoi-based borders, coastlines are now procedurally roughened into more natural-looking shores. The

Fantasy Map Generator is updated up to version 1.109.0. It was a long road to the update, both due to long periods on inactivity and dozens of code issues to be fixed. The new version is compatible with previous versions, loaded save files will be auto-updated. Custom Burg Groups Create custom group

The update introduces an Assistant Bot — a chat widget integrated into the tool to assist users by answering questions related to the Fantasy Map Generator. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model, the bot has been trained to provide information specific to the generator, including map creation, customizat

The recent update to Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator introduces an overhaul of the routes system. The original routes system had several shortcomings that limited its realism and functionality: The previous system interconnected all burgs (settlements), but each burg was only linked to one or two oth

Introducing the next update to the Fantasy Map Generaror. In this release we've addressed a series of pesky bugs while also introducing two enhancements to enrich your experience. Ocean heightmap rendering: Dive deeper into customization with the capability to render ocean heights. Now, within the S

We are pleased to announce the latest iteration of the Fantasy Map Generator, version 1.95.00, featuring Vignette – a new visual-only layer. By default, the Vignette layer adds a barely visible darkening around map borders. However, the layer is quite versatile in its styling capabilities. Users hav

Welcome, everyone! This is small update that adds only one new feature – an ability to create a custom color scheme for a heightmap. Using the editor UI is straightforward – you can define a series of color stops to establish a linear gradient. There's no limit to the number of colors you can use, a

Hey Armoria users, We've got some news to share about our heraldic design tool - Armoria! New charges: We've expanded our charges collection with fresh additions, giving you a wealth of new symbols and motifs to experiment with. In fact, the number of default charges has increased from 190 to 339 si

Greetings, esteemed world builders and storytellers! We take great pleasure in launching our new application, Deorum. Deorum is a tool conceived and developed for the world builders, who are perpetually on the lookout for a reliable and rich source of unique fantasy characters. Unveiling the feature

Greetings, esteemed cartographers and fantasy world creators! I have just deployed the latest update of the Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator and now the version is 1.90.00 🎉! This update may have been slightly delayed, but it comes packed with some noteworthy changes that I believe will improve your

Greetings! It's been a while since our last update, and I must say, exciting things have been brewing behind the scenes. While you might have wondered about the quiet, rest assured, it was all about gearing up for an upcoming big project. In the meantime, I am presenting a long-awaited update for Ar

Continuing the AI images generation topic, I've started to work on a new project called Deorum. It is supposed to be a fantasy pantheon generator based on a huge number of precreated images. It is in pre-alpha with admin part only, so not public as for now. There is a screen available for non-admins

Had some time to play with the famous DALL-E 2 image generator by Open AI (currently in closed beta) and think how it can be potentially used in FMG. DALL-E generates images from a short text prompt and is especially good in visualization of abstract ideas or mimicking a known style. Found pretty a

Fantasy Map Generator has vast amount of data that get never displayed to users. But it can be interesting, so I'm introducing a new tool that allows to visually browse cells-related data in a form of bar charts. Data is getting retrieved using simple formulas like "plot Y by X grouped by Z". The en

The previous update was fun and all, but it got some reasonable critique as it was really hard to work with big hierarchy trees. I decided to spend a week more to make hierarchy trees actually usable and enjoyable. As each node can have multiple parents (origins) now, there should be additional UI e

I bet not everyone even knew that we had a specific tree-like view to show origin of cultures and religions. It was there for a few years already, but its usage was always limited. The problem is that tree structure allows each node (element) to have only one parent. Overwise it cannot be built corr

Today's update introducing a new screen. The screen allows to select one of the available templates or pre-created heightmaps proving a nice visual representation. Now you can see the heightmap that is going to be generated. You can also regenerate the preview to find a one you like and get understa

Quite a small update. Templates Editor are reviewed and that resulted into 2 new editor tools creation: Mask and Invert. The first one allows to automatically lower height of the cells near map edge or, alternatively, lower cells close to map center. Invert just mirrors the heightmap so that now we

Recently there were quite a few important updates not announced here. First, fellow contributor Goteguru completed his work on Submap tool (v1.8). It offers multiple ways to create a derivate map from the current project. Now you can generate region map, change details level, rotate or mirror map. F

Sometimes users ask "where can I find a seed to generate a map or Earth"? And while it's possible to import an image and convert it to heightmap, it can be pretty unobvious that there is a feature lie that. Generally it doesn't have to to be that complex. We can simply build-in some pre-defined heig

One of the most requested features of the latest months was an ability to edit the link to the One page dungeon generator by Watabou. A small request caused pretty significant changes. I was not happy with the Notes Editor we had before and decided to replace it with a more advanced tool. The replac

Quite a few updates got deployed today. First, now we have a detailed annual temperature information for all burgs. The info is rendered as a simple graph: The update is prepared by Kerravitarr with me just doing refactoring and UI fixes. Kerravitarr had analyzed the real-world climate data for abou

Just today I have completed adding translation support for Armoria. I hope that with the community help we can translate the tool into 10-15 languages. Translation into Russian, my native language, is already completed. If you want to help with translations: Open https://crwd.in/armoria to get a lis

After almost half of the year since the last update, Armoria is getting 17 new quality charges. All the charges are optimized images from the WappenWiki available under CC BY-NC-SA. The same are available in Fantasy Map Generator and Armoria API. After almost half of the year since the last update,

Markers update for the Fantasy map Generator. The update concentrates on Markers system rework, but also also includes other enhancements and fixes. 12 new marker types Fixes of old marker types Reworked markers editor Markers overview screen Markers regeneration menu Burg editor update Theme color

New version allows to save .map files to Dropbox directly from the UI. Now you can save the map to Dropbox and create a sharable link available for everyone who has it. There is no need to send .map files. Due to Dropbox limitation, saving big files is not allowed. In case of issues with saving, you

Here is a very small update: heightmap templates are refactor and a new one is added - Taklamakan. The template generates a valley in the map center surrounded by high mountains. Due to the mountains the value is lacking precipitation and usually forms big desert. The landscape generated resembles m

Relatively small update that took me about a week of hard work. Most of the time was spent of code refactoring, so not visible for users. Now river generation is separated from river rendering and the code is much more cleaner. River course can be restored from the data, so the issue we had on river

Yesterday's Watercolor style is good, but what about adding one more style, this time more usable in real projects, but still showing some interesting techniques. This time introducing the Light style set. It uses both new state borders style and features available for a long period of time, but sti

Yesterday I was asked if states can have color only along borders. We already had the Halo effect, but it was not possible to use it separately from states fill. Now, after about a day of refactoring of a very messy code, the functionality is ready. Now it should be simpler to style the states layer

This is a new small feature: now you can save the map as a single zip file containing multiple smaller images (tiles). Once downloaded, tiles can be combined back to get a massive raster image.

Here is a small update changing the way the map is prepared for river generation. There were a lot of issues with maps having too many land depressions. Depressions are cells that are lower that all cells around and hence precipitation water cannot find its way to ocean. In real world most of depres

Continuing the topic of resources. Here the list of all raw resources available. The list may change a bit and also supposed to be editable for users.

As a part of the planned Economics update I'm working on resources generation. This is a first look on how Resources Editor may be implemented in the future. It's far from being production-ready, more like a proof-of-concept. But as the update may take months, I would like to start sharing the work

I have added 17 new types of crosses. I believe now it should be enough for most cases. Going to add more complex charges next.

Just a bunch of new charges added to Armoria. All images are from wappenwiki.org.

Hello. Here is pretty tricky update for Armoria API. It was generating random coat of arms, but now I've added an ability to get COAs created in Armoria GUI. So you can make a request like below and it will always produce the coat of arms you want, not a random one. https://armoria.herokuapp.com/svg

This is manly a refactoring and code optimization effort, but as data model for rulers and ocean pattern is not changed, I have to move the version to get your old maps auto-update. Just a few visible changes: * Linear Rulers is replaced by Polyline ruler. It's easy to use for route distancing, just

This update is coming quite unexpectedly. About a month ago gitHub user CanisArtorus was able to resolve an issue with river system we had: rivers were ignoring lakes on generation, so lakes were completely out of river system. Now I was able to further improve the code and turn it into a solid syst

Hello-hello! Finally, after 8 months since the last big update for Fantasy Map Generator, I'm glad to publish a new one: v1.5 - Emblems Update. As you probably know, these months were mainly spent to build a completely new tool - heraldry generator and editor named Armoria. Now the basic work on Arm

Hello! Emblems update (v1.5) is almost ready. The only thing that is left is public testing and hence the link to the test version is below. Please take a look and report issues on gitHub: github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator/issues Link for testing: https://fmg-alpha.netlify.app

The final checkout before releasing Armoria in a stable version 1.0! The release version will integrate Armoria into Fantasy Map Generator and add more charges. The current update turning Armoria into PWA, which means that desktop and mobile browsers will allow to install it as a standalone applicat

The update mostly contains optimization and UX changes. The tool was not optimized and Edit screen was pretty slow if coat of arms is complex. Now the UI should work smoothly not matter how many elements are added. I did not try insane numbers, though. Another important change is ability to customiz

A number of update for quality of life. SVG icons (better mobile support) Touch screen gestures (better mobile support) Responsive UI fixes (also for mobiles) New tooltip system Charge size adjustment for different shield shapes Inescutcheon shape aligned with shield shape Fix of Rules of Tincture c

This time I have added quite a lot of new shield shapes and organized them all into 8 catogories. Now we have 38 shapes in total, including all common historical ones, 5 generic fantasy and 7 from Tolkien's Middle Earth arts. Regarding the Middle Earth ones. I invented only the one for Erebor. Other

New update for Armoria: now you can not only change color of existing tinctures, but also create new custom ones and manually define how frequently they will appear in your coat of arms. See wiki-page for more details about heraldic colors. Please note that I am not goind to add all possible tinctur