AutoREALM is an

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

program designed to draw maps for

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

s, mainly in fantasy settings. The program is similar to the commercial

Campaign Cartographer Campaign Cartographer is a Windows map creation program created by ProFantasy Software originally in 1993. Description The program is designed to draw maps for role playing and miniature war games. The CAD engine is based on FastCAD, although ...

. AutoREALM, in its 2.x series, is primarily written in

Delphi Delphi (; ), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), in ancient times was a sacred precinct that served as the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The oracle ...

and only works in Windows and Wine. Work is underway to recode the GUI to use wxWidgets and extending the support to Linux,

FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular ...

and Mac OS X. The program is a vector art program that supports various graphics layers. The program supports various kinds of grids and measurement methods. It supports drawing vector objects with both straight and

fractal In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension. Many fractals appear similar at various scales, as illu ...

lines, and has various line styles. It also supports grouping of objects into map symbols that are arranged in a symbol library. The library shipping with the program includes various symbols from contributors. The program also has some other modules, such as AutoNAME, a name generator based on context-free grammars.

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* * * Development on * {{dmoz, Games/Roleplaying/World_Building/Map_Making/Tools/AutoREALM/, AutoREALM Free graphics software Free software programmed in C++ Free software programmed in Delphi Role-playing game software Windows-only free software Software that uses wxWidgets Pascal (programming language) software

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