Questions tagged [software-recommendations]
For questions related to finding software to do a particular task. Please indicate the expected operating system, if appropriate. Please review the List of Worldbuilding Resources (see link in tag wiki) before using this tag.
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Software for diagramming food webs?
My friends and I have a huge hyperrealistic worldbuilding project (yes, I do suffer from Worldbuilder's Disease) that involves speculative biology. I am currently using diagrams.net to make the ...
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Which map-making software is best suited for my interests?
I'm interested in creating a map for a world I've been creating. I've done some research to determine which software would suit me best, and it came down to Inkarnate, Campaign Cartographer, and ...
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How do i count the % of sea of a map? [closed]
I'm trying to figure how many waters surface level does this map cover
So how do i count the % water surface cover over land.
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A tool to keep track of asynchronous events on a calendar?
I've got an urban fantasy story set a few decades ago that heavily involves vampires and werewolves, and as such, when exactly the sun and moon were out on a given day is important information for me ...
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A tool that draws the borders around settlements automatically [closed]
So im really not sure if this is the correct place to ask this, however i cant think of another place where it would be more appropriate to ask, so correct me if this is the wrong place to post!
So i ...
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Is there a website that will allow me to create a fictional calendar?
Is there a website that will allow me to create a fictional calendar? I have already created the actual system, named the months, days of the week, and so on, but I would like to create an actual ...
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Online Anatomy Creator/Maker..?
I was wondering if there's some sort of online anatomy creator or maker? I'm wanting to make a model of a modified human body... is there some sort of anatomy creator that allows you to add organs or ...
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Software for creating a 3D planet [duplicate]
(Sorry for my English, it's not my native language. I use Google translate.)
I am looking for one or more software programs to create a sphere in 3D with longitudes, latitudes, etc. I want to be able ...
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What's a Good Sphere-Mapping Resource?
After reading the help sections for asking questions, I am now confident that my question does in fact appear to be on-topic and in scope for this website.
I currently use a page called PlanetMaker ...
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Looking for a layman's plasma simulator [closed]
Modelling plasma in a magnetic field is hard, it has to be or we would have fusion power already.
Do you know of an application that could be used to simulate the rough / dumbed-down behaviour of a ...
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Private wiki for keeping track of my world, editable from Windows and Android [closed]
I found that creating a wiki may be the best way to keep track of everything. It shouldn't be too complicated for me to get into. But most importantly I want to be able to edit it on my computer and ...
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Climate or weather simulation - free tools
Are there any free living or discontinued tools that can simulate climate or weather?
BYOE and Monash are only online web climate simulation tools.
Some tools I tried:
ClimaSim is only free climate ...
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A list of worldbuilding resources
We are occasionally asked for advice about the worldbuilding process. By its creative and imaginative nature, the process of worldbuilding doesn't have a single obvious starting point or a step-by-...
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Rotating a map projection - software question
Not a duplicate of What software is available for map creation? as the focus is on how, not what -- requesting useful projections for a polar context, and techniques to transform between projections ...
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Tool for "mapifying" simple closed curves?
Is there a tool which
takes a simple image with closed curves (like 2 circles),
and then "mapifyes" the image by making those circles into coastlines?
I know it's a bit vague, but what I mean is ...
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