April 1st, 2020

Inkarnate 1.0 - Public Release

The new update is live and it's our biggest one so far!

We listened to your feedback and worked very hard on this new version. We hope you will enjoy all of the new art and functionality.

If you’ve already tried Inkarnate 1.0, you'll be excited to know that we also threw in some new surprises for the public release!

These include:

  • A beautiful new Parchment style for that aged, hand-drawn look
  • World generator to automatically create realistic landmasses in seconds
  • High-quality filters to give your map a unique look (Sepia, BW, Night, etc.)
  • An Ethereal Realm art pack to add colorful new flora to your regional HD maps


Here's a detailed list of improvements in Inkarnate 1.0:

New Art

  • Map Styles:
    • A brand new super high detail HD Fantasy Regional art style
    • A new Fantasy World art style with 3 unique POI styles
    • A new Parchment World style
       
  • Stamps:
    • Humanoid & Creature stamps
    • Mountain variations
    • Jungle stamps
    • Ethereal stamps
    • Graveyard stamps
    • Dark Citadel stamps
    • Desert Stamps and Dunes
    • Orc Buildings
    • Tudor Style Buildings
    • Elven Walls & Towers
    • Effects stamps (Mist, Sun Rays & more)
    • Many more!
       
  • Textures:
    • HD seamless textures
    • Terrain matching parchment textures
    • Ice & snow textures

New Tools

  • A new Selection tool with objects search
  • A new Path Tool for roads, trade routes and more

Updates on Current Tools

  • Mask Tool:
    • Roughness Brush for easy and realistic coastlines
    • Mask smoothness
    • Advanced coastal effects with configurable options
  • Stamp Tool:
    • Density brush
    • Stamp opacity
    • Recently used stamps
  • Brush Tool:
    • Texture adjustments (size, rotation, offsets)
    • Recently used textures
  • Text Tool:
    • More fonts
    • Text opacity
    • Curvature
    • Spacing
    • Line height
    • Alignment
  • Grid Tool:
    • New isometric grid option
    • Improved Z Layer ordering
    • Grid offsets
    • Better integration between the Grid tool and the Mask and Brush Tools
  • Note Tool
    • Updated interface and new formatting options

Editing & Exports

  • High resolution HD export (4K and higher)
  • High resolution editing (up to 4K)
  • Custom width / height aspect ratios
  • Color filters
  • Offline backups & map recovery

Usability

  • New world generator
  • A completely redone responsive and intuitive user interface
  • Undo / redo and change history
  • Advanced assets & maps search
  • Copy & paste objects
  • Object layering (aka “Object Z Layers”)
  • Layer flattening
  • Updated keybindings

Performance

  • Improved performance: 100K+ objects per scene

Other Updates

  • Open & edit your Free maps with Pro features and art
  • New payment method: Paypal

And many more improvements throughout the app!