DungeonMapper is a simple tool to draw maps for old-school dungeon crawler games such as Dungeon Master, The Bard's Tale and Eye of the Beholder.
Many functions involve holding down one or more modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl and Alt) and clicking mouse buttons. Most of these functions work on the following ideas:
- No modifiers - set colours on a tile.
- Ctrl - clear something on a tile.
- Shift - set something from a tile.
- Alt - do something with text.
The exception to this is when all three modifiers are held down to open the colour picker.
The two buttons on the toolbar marked L and R control the colours used when colouring tiles. Click either of these to select a new colour from the colour picker. Alternatively, hold down Shift, Ctrl and Alt and click anywhere on the map with either the left or right mouse button to open the colour picker for that button.
Click the left or right mouse buttons in a tile to set its colour to the L or R colour. Click near the centre of a tile to set the main tile colour or click near one of a tile's edges to set the colour of just that edge.
Hold down Ctrl and click the left or right mouse button near the centre of the tile to clear it, including its edge colours and text. Click near one of the edges to clear just that edge.
Hold down Shift and click the left or right mouse button to set the corresponding colour in the toolbar from the tile. The colour can be set from the centre or the edges of the tile.
Press Alt+Z to undo the last change and Shift+Alt+Z to redo the last undo.
Zoom the map in and out with the mouse wheel and pan the map by dragging with the right mouse button held down. If you lose track of the map while panning, press the X button on the toolbar to re-centre it.
Hold down Alt and click the left mouse button on a tile to add the text in the "Text" input box on the toolbar to that tile. The text will be centered in the tile.
Hold down Alt and click the right mouse button on a tile to add the text to the tile left-aligned with no background colour or border line.
Hold down Shift and Alt and click either mouse button to set the text in the "Text" input box from the tile.
Hold down Ctrl and Alt and click either mouse button to clear a tile's text.
Hold down the left mouse button and drag to select multiple tiles. Press Esc or select some empty tiles to clear the selecion.
Press Alt+C to copy the selected tiles or Alt+X to copy and cut the selected tiles. Press Shift+Alt+X to cut the tiles without copying them.
Press Alt+V to paste the copied tiles at the current mouse position.
Note: Using CTRL+C, etc. will operate on the "Text" input box on the toolbar.
Hold Alt and use the cursor keys to shift the selected tiles up, down, left or right.
DungeonMapper is built using Lazarus, a cross-platform IDE, freely available from the Lazarus homepage.
However, note that this sotware is developed on GNU/Linux and has not been tested on any other platform.
Copyright (C) 2023 Chiizujin.
DungeonMapper is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
DungeonMapper is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
The image files in the res/ directory and dungeonmapper.ico in the src/ directory are also released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
See the LICENSE file for the text of the GNU General Public License.