Lidarion - Hexmap Studio (System Agnostic)

Lidarion Hexmap Studio is an all-in-one cartography suite and world-building engine built directly into Foundry VTT. Design, detail, and explore massive, living overland hexmaps without ever needing external mapping software.

Features

1. In-Engine Cartography Studio -  A dedicated full-screen editor with fluid painting tools:
   • Brush: scalable from 1 to 6 hex radius with glowing hover preview
   • Flood Fill
   • Eraser
   • Eyedropper
2. Layer Map Building - Build rich overland environments across four specialized layers:
   • Terrain: Standard built-in biomes (Grassland, Forests, Mountains, Deserts, Tundra, Oceans, and more)
   • Custom Terrain: User-created categories with personalized accent colors and subcategories
   • Objects & Landmarks: Castles, ruins, dungeons, and map props placed cleanly on top of terrain cells
   • Roads & Rivers: Winding dotted travel paths and flowing rivers with soft, natural bank transitions
3. Non-Destructive Stacking Engine: Enforces a strict 1-Terrain + 1-Object rule per cell-painting or erasing terrain will never overwrite your placed landmarks.
4. In-App Custom Tile & Object Creator: Turn any image (PNG, JPG, WebP) into standard, gapless hextiles right inside Foundry. Features template masking zones (Core Hex, Overhang Peaks, Cutoff) and 4-variant tab families.
5. Interactive Scene Hub (Campaign Codex): Transform map coordinates into an interactive campaign atlas. Click any territory that you created to view custom artwork banners, rich-text lore notes, linked battlemap transitions, and drag-and-drop document binders (Actors, Items, Journals, Roll Tables).
6. Discrete Hex Fog of War: Replaces awkward circular vision bubbles with whole-hex exploration reveals and cinematic on-screen discovery banners (`NEW AREA DISCOVERED`).
7. Party Token Travel & Weather: Animated step-by-step hex traversal for party tokens at configurable travel speeds, paired with dynamic ambient cloud shadows.
8. High-Performance Scene Baking (tested with 250,000+ Hexes): Compile thousands of live tiles into a single ultra-high-resolution WebP background with one click, guaranteeing rock-solid 60 FPS performance for your players. Unbake and edit anytime!

For more information you found here a long introduction.

A brief look

My Example Worldmap (with a large crack :))

The Hexmap Studio

The Custom Tile Creator

Hextile based Fog of War (Token made by Wizard of the Coast (SRD))

Region & Location HUBs

Other hex maps can also use the region/location system, including the HUBs.

(Map made by Cha Malhô)

Requirements

• Recommended Modules: FXMaster (for dynamic cloud weather effects)

Generative AI tools were used exclusively for software development assistance (code implementation, debugging, and refactoring).

All visual media (hextiles, UI assets, and artwork) and written content are 100% human-created.

Note: All pre-made Hextiles were created using Inkarnate. I hold the necessary license to distribute them commercially.