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Constable Jaynin Mimetes
 Post subject: Family Trees
PostPosted: January 22nd, 2011, 11:50 am 
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Has anyone else made genealogy trees for their characters?

Specifically I'm interested in lines of succession for rulers. I can't quite figure out how to format it, and I was wondering if anyone else had done it and how.

(Does this go here or in culture? Or somewhere else altogether?)

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Lady Vilisse Mimetes
 Post subject: Re: Family Trees
PostPosted: January 22nd, 2011, 3:15 pm 
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Format it? Not sure how I'd answer that, but yes, I have genealogies for many of my MCs.

Formet: Are you talking about how I write it out? Or how I figure out how people are related and why?

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Elly
 Post subject: Re: Family Trees
PostPosted: January 22nd, 2011, 3:34 pm 
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Well, you could always do it this way. If you're desperate enough. ;)

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Constable Jaynin Mimetes
 Post subject: Re: Family Trees
PostPosted: January 22nd, 2011, 8:24 pm 
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Format as in, writing it down on paper is easy. Typing it up and keeping everything where it's supposed to be, not so easy. A nice, simple program would be nice, but I'll settle for less sophisticated methods of spacing and so forth. :P

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Rachel Newhouse
 Post subject: Re: Family Trees
PostPosted: January 22nd, 2011, 11:03 pm 
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Try a bubble map. You can make hierarchies of bubbles and draw lines to connect them any which way. :D Very easy and very adaptable and free-form.

I've used bubbl.us in the past. They've made some changes so I'm not sure how much of the service is still free, though.

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Constable Jaynin Mimetes
 Post subject: Re: Family Trees
PostPosted: January 23rd, 2011, 11:44 am 
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The bubble maps work perfect! Thanks! And I can even export them as images. Nice. :D

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Kiev Shawn
 Post subject: Re: Family Trees
PostPosted: January 25th, 2011, 4:45 pm 
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Philadelphia wrote:
Try a bubble map. You can make hierarchies of bubbles and draw lines to connect them any which way. :D Very easy and very adaptable and free-form.

I've used bubbl.us in the past. They've made some changes so I'm not sure how much of the service is still free, though.


You can have 3 maps at a time... Which means I will be saving maps as images once they are complete and make a new one in its place.

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Bethany Faith
 Post subject: Re: Family Trees
PostPosted: June 30th, 2011, 6:21 pm 
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This thread has been moved to Character Development. :)
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