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All of the paths are shown with ‘white’ as their color in the preview, so you can see what you’ll get in the set. Almost all of them are unique, there are a couple of color variations / pathways with or without a border. This set is dominantly sci-fi / technology style roads. From monorails to steel balls to cogs and pipes, you’ll find all kinds of neat contemporary future style roadways.
All of the roads are universally compatible with any program because they are pngs. So you can use them in a virtual tabletop if you want. They’re all 1200×200 pngs and can be used up to battlemap scale. Most of them will seamlessly tile both in the horizontal road direction but also vertically, so you can put many of these roads right beside each other and have no seams. Obviously this doesn’t apply to the ones like the railways or with outlines, maybe about half of them should tile both directions.
The unzipped folder needs to be put in the ‘assets’ Wonderdraft folder.
Use as Frames in Other World Mapper
You can also use these as Other World Mapper frames. If you want to, then you’ll put the .pngs included in the Wonderdraft pack in the Other World Mapper / Borders / Frames folder.
Roads for Wonderdraft or Frames for Other World Mapper
Technically, there’s about 47 unique brushes in here: they come in blue/red colored, white/black outlined, and plain white for different effects.
2022 update! Now includes 191 grittier, aged versions of the original brushes to expand your options!
Unlike 88 Paths Expansion for Wonderdraft, which is all texture based brushes, these brushes are “shaped” elements with no significant texture. Paths, roads, and ribbons in this path include ruins, ruined walls with towers, railway, modern roads with ribbon paint, arrows, and more. I’m most excited about the rubble brushes, which will enable you to draw ruins with the path tool. Everything (except for the 2022 Gritty Bonus update) is shown in the example images, in a couple of different Wonderdraft default skins.
These pathways are included as PNG downloads in a zipped folder. All pngs are 1000×100 pixels wide, and can also be used as drag and drop pieces in a virtual tabletop. They must be placed in the correct folder to show up as paths in Wonderdraft. I recommend setting the color of the road to white in Wonderdraft to bring out the original colors if they appear too dark to make out the detail.
You will place the unzipped folder in the assets folder.
On a Windows 10 machine you will place the path PNGs in C/Users/(user)/AppData/Roaming/Wonderdraft/assets/(name of asset pack)/textures/paths. AppData is a hidden folder. You will need to activate hidden folders to access it. I have included the folder structure, so all you have to do is place it in Assets and unzip.
These Roads, Paths and Ribbons allow you to create interesting borders between countries in Wonderdraft, chart routes with different styled ribbons and add a variety of beautiful stylish decorative elements to your path tool.
Updated 2024 with 30 new paths and the folder install goes in your “Assets” folder now! Unzip and place in your Wonderdraft assets folder. While I’m not going to rename it, yes, there is now 128 Roads for Wonderdraft in this pack!
New roads! Redownload if you already bought it to add these to your collection!
New roads have been added in my 2024 update! Theme shown is from Lil Deserts.
If you already own it for Wonderdraft and want the Dungeondraft version just let me know and I’ll send you a free copy. I only separated them because I’ve found people get a little confused by my packs that have multiple program versions in the same pack.
Frames for Other World Mapper
They are also appropriate for use in Other World Mapper as frames, and can be added by placing them into the Other World Mapper folder under “Program Files / Other World Mapper / Borders/ Frames”. The Other World Mapper folder will be wherever you installed it: Program Files by default. These cannot be installed with the image manager in OWM and must be manually added to this folder.
A select few are also great just for use on a battle map as a drop in rug or flooring element. They’re all seamless horizontal tiling ribbons so really, there’s a wider range of potential applications for them as png assets in your virtual tabletop games and map design too. You can use them to design a frame for a map manually in a raster program by positioning them along the border with snap to grid active, for example.
Most of the roads are 1000 pixels wider by a varying degree of widths. They range in design. Some of the designs look quite similar at a small road size as their distinguishing features don’t pop out unless you use them at a battlemap or larger regional scale: these may be very minor deviations such as a stroke around the edge in one and not the other. The designs include fancy rug, mosaic tiles, cobblestone, crazy paving style stone, train crossbars, wires, bricks, rough earth, and a slightly more modern road variation. Some would look nice as walls or ruins.
What you see is what you get: no secrets. All roads included are demoed in the attachment images so you can see how they look when dropped straight onto the Terra theme in Wonderdraft with no tampering with any settings.
Note that most of these roads and paths are texture based, with a few exceptions that are different PNG shapes (the railroad, the wires). Some of the themes tend to obliterate the textures. They look good in Terra and Eastward for example, but in Black and White’s default settings the textures just vanish entirely. So if you tend to make your maps in black and white, classic inked styles with very low amounts of color, they won’t fit well. These roads and paths will match well with a colorful and highly textured map style and not well with a crisp inked vector style classic map. I recommend Ti’s 146 More Roads for Wonderdraft for paths that are more suited to a crisp vector style.
