Map Packs & FGU Map Making

[JohnD]

Looking at a product in the FG store; https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store...id=AAWFGANYSMP

With FGU will we be able to use these tiles to construct a map either "on the fly" or ahead of time in the program?

[Moon Wizard]

You should be able to do that eventually. This particular tile pack was created for FGC; and won't work well in FGU (i.e. all the images are created as tokens in this module). I've forwarded to Doug to review for FGU release.

Also, there is no LoS on any of these tiles, and that would be a different requirement for this sort of product.

Regards,
JPG

[Trenloe]

i.e. all the images are created as tokens in this module

Looking at my copy in FGC they're all images.

This didn't really work well in FGC as 6x6 square stand alone tiles as FG images don't really work that well. In FGU (when converted and LOS added) these tiles will be amazing!

[Moon Wizard]

They're also set up as image records; but stored in the tokens directory. This means they are doing double duty in FGC.

In FGU, this just confuses things; because FGU treats all files in "images/", "portraits/", and "tokens/" as their respective graphics types. If you tried to add one of these to a map in FGU in its current implementation, it would add as a token, not as a tile layer.

Regards,
JPG

[Trenloe]

They're also set up as image records; but stored in the tokens directory. This means they are doing double duty in FGC.

In FGU, this just confuses things; because FGU treats all files in "images/", "portraits/", and "tokens/" as their respective graphics types. If you tried to add one of these to a map in FGU in its current implementation, it would add as a token, not as a tile layer.

Thanks for the clarification!

[Copernicus219]

I just recently bought this map pack and was wondering if it was a bug that they are stored as tokens. Does this mean they will be changed or are they stuck as tokens?

[Moon Wizard]

Doug and I are discussing the future of these DLC. We may move them to FGU only products and fix data to work as expected, since they aren’t really useful in FGC as is.

Regards,
JPG

[Trenloe]

Doug and I are discussing the future of these DLC. We may move them to FGU only products and fix data to work as expected, since they aren’t really useful in FGC as is.

I agree. Good plan (if that's what you decide).

[JohnD]

FYI to anyone interested, I just saw this video is a recent upload; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVdiDA-jKp4&t=195s

[ddavison]

I just updated it so it should work with Fantasy Grounds Unity now. It should auto-install the update for FGU if you run an Update and you are in the closed beta. The FGC version is left unchanged at this time. I marked it as FGU only and we may retire it in the future for FGC.

The store page has been updated.
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store...id=AAWFGANYSMP

We have not updated the rest of those in the series. I did this as an example for AAW Games. We are still discussing how to get the rest updated.