Im hoping someone here can help me.

I have a contact at a local printing company who can print PVC mats for me. I have used him in the past for mats for X-Wing/Armada and the end-result is quite good.

My problem is that I have no skills in the creation of the mats artwork, and so rely on open source files or other peoples help.
Im led to belive that for the people with the right skillset its relatively easy, so can anyone here help me?
What I need is a file that is 182,88x91,44 cm (6x3´)in a PDF at 100-300 DPI.

Artwould should resemble something like either of these, but obviously not be straight ripoffs/copies.
http://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/wargames-terrain-mat-swamp/
https://www.urbanmatz.com/p/192/grassland-6x4
https://www.urbanmatz.com/p/226/badlands-6x4


So anyone got the skills to help out
Ill offer thanks and virtual hugs

Pretty sure a google search for open-copyright field textures will bring you the results you want.

4 hours ago, Cultiststeve said:

Pretty sure a google search for open-copyright field textures will bring you the results you want.

The problem is stil to make it the right size/resolution ?

I don't want to rain on your parade, but, as someone who has worked with photorealistic textures in the past...

9 hours ago, Holmelund said:

Im led to belive that for the people with the right skillset its relatively easy, so can anyone here help me?

This statement drives me nuts!

You are confusing talent/ability with effortlessness. Just because a process to create something is straightforward for someone who has the training or talent to do it does not mean that the creation that is made with that process is not labor intensive or difficult .

For example

" I have no skills in music composition and want to write an upbeat pop song. I'm led to belive that for the people with the right skillset it's relatively easy, so can anyone here help me?"

or

" I have no skills painting miniatures and want to paint a Runewars army to a high standard. I'm led to belive that for the people with the right skillset it's relatively easy, so can anyone here help me?"

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What I need is a file that is 182,88x91,44 cm (6x3´)in a PDF at 100-300 DPI.

Ugh. This is a huge task. Absolutely do-able, but here's what you'd be looking at:

Amassing base textures ... a large series of high res photos of the required terrain at the correct representative scale. For the best results these will be taken by the creator as with the size (and scale) you are after, you will need a lot of variation of the particular terrain.

These base textures/images are then seamlessly woven into a (very) large image. This means no repeating textures - the mat should look like a single photo of a given slice of terrain (if you google around you'll see a lot of the lesser companies have repeating textures on their mats, which is really distracting, ugly and videogamey)

If done right, you are looking at a very long, tedious and involved process on the creation alone (let alone potential treks to obtain the base images).

I have the necessary skills to do this, but I'm buying a DeepCut mat ... for me, to be worth the time and effort I'd want to be running a gaming mat business.

Thank you for taking the time to type that out to explain it for me

Guess its not the easy task I thought it to be. I honestly thought it a minor effort for people with the right skillset, since I have had people do it readily with NASAs picture of galaxies etc. for use in X-Wing.

Cheers ?

1 minute ago, Holmelund said:

Thank you for taking the time to type that out to explain it for me

Guess its not the easy task I thought it to be. I honestly thought it a minor effort for people with the right skillset, since I have had people do it readily with NASAs picture of galaxies etc. for use in X-Wing.

Cheers ?

Ah, I see!

NASA space pictures are really great because they're very hi-res and super cool ... ready to go with little manipulation. In this case you are very much correct - the actual process is not very involved at all as the hard part is already done! Which is great if you play X-Wing or Armada...

For a really cool image for a matt suited to Runewars, my previous post stands unfortunately...

Thanks for taking my post the intended way ... it certainly wasn't meant to be mean or snarky, but I can see how it could be taken that way...

1 hour ago, maxam said:

Thanks for taking my post the intended way ... it certainly wasn't meant to be mean or snarky, but I can see how it could be taken that way...

My work as a Correctional Officer Means Im pretty thickskinned,so no worries ?

My wife works in digital media and graphic design and I've been asking her to design me game mats for years....I have accidentally implied that it shouldn't be that difficult for her and had a much sharper explanation than was given here on several occasions because of that lol.

It it is a time consuming process. I've been told that maybe for my birthday or Christmas she'd do it.... but I don't wanna waste my passes to spend way too much money on things I don't need for those occasions so I've ended up buying some.

Honestly theres a nice etsy shop that does pretty killer mats in vinyl or cloth with rubber backing and they are very very reasonable. Especially if you patient and wait for a sale (he does them 3-5 times a year) and he ships quickly and sells in 3x3 3x4 and 3x6 sizes

4 hours ago, Blaied said:

Honestly theres a nice etsy shop that does pretty killer mats in vinyl or cloth with rubber backing and they are very very reasonable. Especially if you patient and wait for a sale (he does them 3-5 times a year) and he ships quickly and sells in 3x3 3x4 and 3x6 sizes

Link?

And crucial info. Is it EU or USA based?

Sorry. Poor form on my part.

it's USA based.

https://www.gamematz.com/

if you look under terrain vinyl matz or pro terrain matz he has a nice selection and for reference he just had an easyer sale for 30% off a big section of them. They were very cheap at that price

i have 2 and both are really nice graphics

Thanks for the reply. USA kills it for me though. Postage, toll and handlingfee makes it prohibitively expensive to buy from US

You should just go to a nice park this summer with a very good camera and take a picture of a lawn with the camera strapped to the bottom of a drone.