The Dungeon about maps

[The Dungeon]

Quick ten minute video about an Idea video says it all really.

[sukEEt]

I like this idea, but it seems like a lot of extra work and jiggery is required. maybe for an end-encounter with a boss, i would be willing to run something like this in a game of mine. great work. is there a way to make the doors a bit see-through? maybe you could somehow make all the doors a separate layer, like with advanced images and and line it up just right with pre-maid markers on the floor plan, and then the doors could be on the top level and characters on the middle or top, depending on whether they are behind the doors or in front of them ...

[sukEEt]

i wish i knew how to write code ...

[Trenloe]

Looks interesting...

The reason you were having a lot of issues with the map (zooming/panning etc.) is because there is a lot of white-space in your image. FG will load the whole image and limit the view to the image only - if there's a lot of white space around you'll get issues very similar to what you're getting.

A few hints:

1. Remove as much white space from around your image as possible.
2. When you first open an image it will appear at the full dimensions of the image. The first thing you should do is resize the window (with CTRL+click-and-drag within the window or using the window edges) and then zoom using the mouse wheel to the viewsize you want.
3. You can pan within the window by holding down the mouse-wheel and moving your mouse.
4. Panning only works within the bounds of the image - FG doesn't allow panning beyond the edges of an image.

More info here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/wiki/...Basics#Windows and here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/wiki/...Images#Viewing

[The Dungeon]

Well the doors were see-through to start with so I don't see it being a problem at this time I am hoping to make these maps available to every one for a few dollars for my time but not fixed as yet, so if you want to give room Ideas feel free, and different door styles in a pack so I don't see any problems as yet.

[The Dungeon]

Thank you, that is really helpful, yet again you have come to my rescue Thank you Trenloe.

[The Dungeon]

OK first map is a trial map, and is free to use at no cost, I'm placing it in here so you can try it out, and to see if you like it or not, I hope you do Attachment 7581 I called it the Green Dragon inn and is not complete by any means but I wanted to give you the chance to use it. Just place it in your Maps folder and close it and with in your list of maps you will see the name, The green dragon inn. I have cut down the size of the image for faster loading hope this will help it is 2000x1000 if you need smaller let me know and together we will get the right size for all of us,Attachment 7582 I also through you may need a character to move around the map so here is a isometric Racoon warrior to play with. I named the file wrong, we don't have Raccoons in England except in a zoo maybe ? but never mind you can always change it. Attachment 7583

[Trenloe]

Thanks for sharing.

Just as an FYI - this map is quite large (over 3MB) and this can take quite a while to share with the players through FG. It's the file size, not necessarily the dimensions, that makes the difference in Fantasy Grounds. It's recommended that GMs "try" to keep their map file sizes to 1MB or less if at all possible - the lower the better to keep map sharing times down. This usually requires some level of lossy compression, i.e. using JPG rather than PNG (experimentation with the exact level of JPG compression to give good compression with acceptable image quality).

[The Dungeon]

Thank you I didn't realize it would come out so big a file any way Ive made it jpeg for now hoping that will ease loading time and will try and reduce its file size asap once again thank you for your unmissable help.

[The Dungeon]

Another video on my scale needed for my different view point maps and possible view finder idea to help make it work other than an eye Icon which would need to be kept handy all the time.