Wonderdraft Academy - Custom Assets: where to find them and how to add them

[@ilttheDude]

hey dude, thanks for making the video!

[@Wonderdraft_Academy]

You're welcome!

[@aneverdayhobbiest2837]

Hi this was super helpful, and I'm glad I found it. You sound a little nervous, and that's okay. I started stream a month ago, and I get it. My vods are only up for 7 days, and it makes me very critical of them. I just wanted to say that I say I think you're doing fine right now and I think you will do some really great stuff later.

[@Wonderdraft_Academy]

Glad it was helpful! It's not nerves really. I didn't prepare anything in advance and was talking while doing the things on the screen, so I was kind of more talking to myself than to an audience. I don't think I have the patience to prepare videos in advance and to edit them afterwards. I like making maps way more than making videos :)

[@aneverdayhobbiest2837]

@Wonderdraft_Academy I feel that. I'm just streaming to try to pull some cash while I work on my portfolio and watch my kid.

[@Dbfjjxnd]

@@aneverdayhobbiest2837weird comment bro 😂

[@CATventur]

Amazing just Amazing. Love Your Contents. Btw can you please make a tutorial on how to make a political map. It is so confusing to use the territory tool.

[@Wonderdraft_Academy]

Thanks a lot!! I actually rarely use the territory tool myself as indeed, it's not the most convenient tool to use (mostly the fact that it doesn't 'snap' in line with the coastline). It's quite a time-consuming effort and that combined with the fact that I'm not a big fan of political maps for fantasy worlds makes that I rarely use it (borders are a relatively modern invention and we - modern humans - are used to seeing borders, but I prefer basing fantasy maps on Medieval or older eras, in which there were no political borders yet).

[@vincentbj84]

How do you manage the k.m Alexander files, for example for Blaeu, the symbols are all grouped together on a single board. Should we ungroup them by hand and create the files. (sorry if this was said in the video, I speak bad English)

[@Wonderdraft_Academy]

I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly. But for Bleau, I kept the assets as they are. I mostly use the mountains and trees from the KMAlexander assets and not the symbols. For the mountains and trees I don't mind that they are grouped. It's way too nitpicky for me to want to pick each individual mountain for example. I just brush over an area and then a nice mountain range appears.

[@Artist2]

Hey! :) Do you have any idea how to make assets transparent or, more importantly, not transparant? The asset-pack I downloaded is supposed to be not-transparant, but I can't fix it :/

[@EdwinMenzo]

I'm not 100% sure what the issue is without more context, but one thing you could check if the assets are for 'custom colors', 'sample colors' or 'colored' (asset creators use different names for these types). 'Colored' means that you can't change the colors and you can only place the assets as they are. 'Sample colors' means that the assets don't have a color by themselves yet and you can color them using the Ground Color Brush, setting the filter to 'symbols' (or to 'trees' or 'mountains' depending on what assets you place). 'Custom colors' means that you can adjust 3 parts of the colors of an asset (underneath 'custom colors' in the menu on the right side of the screen when you're placing assets). Knowing this, to change the transparency of assets, it depends on which of the 3 types of assets you're using. If it's the 'colored' type, you can't change any of the color, so also not the transparency. For the 'custom colors' assets, you can make one (or more) of the 3 color choices transparent or not transparent by lowering the bottom of the 4 bars (marked with A) in the color selection. For 'sample colors' assets, you can use the Ground Color Brush, selecting the correct filter (symbol, tree or mountain) and choosing the color that you want (again, the lowest bar A is for transparency). Hope this helps!

[@Artist2]

Hey, thanks for the reply :) @@EdwinMenzo Unfortunately the problem still persists. I'm either too stupid to get your explanation, made some other mistake or the assets are just not usable atm - probably all three :/ I was trying to use the "Cartography Icons Pack" created by "Elven Tower", since his mountains are one of the few that look good as a kinda cliff-thingy imo. I tried working with the layer-option too but still couldn't bring them to work. Still, thank you for trying to help me. I really appreciate it :)

[@Wonderdraft_Academy]

@@Artist2 Hey, I only now see that I made that previous reply under my private account, but just so you know: that reply was by me :) I didn't know that asset pack yet, but downloaded and tried them out. They're indeed transparent by default and in Wonderdraft you won't be able to color them. There's someone who made these assets ready for use in Wonderdraft and the creator (Elven Tower) allows the use of them as long as you've purchased the original ones. You can find them here: drive.google.com/file/d/1OXLLBxocRlTXF_o9HcnTEP8PGAgfUv2L/view

[@Artist2]

Holy shit!@@Wonderdraft_Academy Thank you so much!!

[@Wonderdraft_Academy]

You're welcome @@Artist2

[@VeronwDS]

Hey there, I followed along for the most part, but when I try to activate the assets in wonderdraft (I activate them, save as instructed, then reload the map) the new assets don't show up. I checked the files to be sure and its definitely located int he roaming/wonderdraft/assets/ folder.. These are official assets, like the pirate pack. Any ideas or suggestions on why they may not be working? Thanks for all you do!

[@EdwinMenzo]

Not sure if you did it already, but you need to quit Wonderdraft altogether after checking those asset boxes. Reloading the map without quitting the program isn't enough

[@VeronwDS]

@@EdwinMenzo Ah, that did it! I feel silly now xD thanks!

[@Darthandrea]

hi! did you have idea on how i can delete some of the official symbols? in the Roaming cartel i can find only the premiums and the ones that i got from cartography assets keep going with this channel!

[@Wonderdraft_Academy]

Hey, sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. 'Roaming cartel'? If you mean to delete the default Wonderdraft assets, then you probably shouldn't. It's not possible to do that similarly to custom assets.

[@Darthandrea]

@@Wonderdraft_Academy ye i was talking about to delete the standard symbols (the ones that take the colour of the ground) because after all the asset that i have installed it gives me load time everytime i open the symbols buttom thx for the answer

[@Wonderdraft_Academy]

@@Darthandrea Those you can't delete indeed. But the default symbols shouldn't be causing that much trouble. It's usually the (bigger) custom assets that do. In the top 'assets' menu you can uncheck assets that you're not using in your map to prevent them from loading and slowing down your program (make sure to not uncheck assets that are used on the map)

[@auzieten]

Am I crazy, or is nothing on Cartography Assets free anymore?

[@Wonderdraft_Academy]

Definitely less than back in the days. But you can't expect people to spend time on everything for free I think.