Re: A question about maps
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Originally Posted by msd
Are the maps you are using in the screenshots just imported image files from whatever mapping program the GM happens to be using? Or does the app have any native mapping functionality?
They are imported images that are imported automatically when you place them in their directory before or during a game.
The software provides a drawing tool (pressure sensitive if you're using a tablet) for ad hoc combat screen drawing and grids, pointers, sectors and shapes of arbitrary sizes, map masking and placing tokens on maps. All of these go to separate layers so that the underlaying map stays intact. You could, in fact, create a token pack that contains terrain tiles and create a map from them on the fly. This is also an area that is likely to get more nifty features in the future.
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Originally Posted by msd
The reason I ask is that while the overland map looks like it might be from another app, it appears as if the room map (the tombs I think) appear to be something that can be done in the application itself.
The maps under the tokens, grids etc. that you see in the screenshots were made with an external program except for the ones that have a sketch feel to them (see link above).