Thread: A little DCC love
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July 17th, 2019, 03:48 #1
A little DCC love
It's the Abandoned Silver Mine from DCC 01 rendered at 100 pixels per grid square.
You can grab it here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product...e-Missing-Maps
My current plan is to render the maps needed for the Saga of the Dragon Cult (which is DCC 2-17-10-6, in that order).
Here is an early peek at DCC 17, which is really just one big map...
This is how CC+ looks when you're working...
Here it is more fully rendered... This is the starting area.
TopLast edited by Topdecker; July 17th, 2019 at 03:57.
Various and sundry VTT publications that can be blamed entirely on me:
Maps of the American West for FG --- Black Hawk, Colorado --- Dodge City, Kansas --- Victorian Era Tokens - Set A --- Placerville, California --- Salida, Colorado --- Western Tokens Set A --- Western Tokens Set B
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July 17th, 2019, 19:52 #2
Very cool! DCC 17 was always a favorite of mine.
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July 17th, 2019, 20:04 #3
When creating maps aimed at Fantasy Grounds please try to keep them close to the recommended 2048x2048 pixels in size (4.2 million pixels in total). At 100 pixels per grid square, those dungeon maps look to be at least 3 times larger than that - the one in the top right is nearly 5 times that! Sure, it's OK to load these up in isolation - FG will cope with that, but in an ongoing campaign, with lots of other resources loaded, images this size could put too much of a strain on FG limited resources, hence why there's a recommendation to keep large maps as close to 4.2 million pixels (2048x2048 pixels) as possible.
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July 18th, 2019, 01:26 #4
They are packaged as JPGs as well - if someone wants to reduce them to 50px per square, that's an option. You can always go lower res - it is pretty hard to go higher.
TopVarious and sundry VTT publications that can be blamed entirely on me:
Maps of the American West for FG --- Black Hawk, Colorado --- Dodge City, Kansas --- Victorian Era Tokens - Set A --- Placerville, California --- Salida, Colorado --- Western Tokens Set A --- Western Tokens Set B
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July 18th, 2019, 01:28 #5Various and sundry VTT publications that can be blamed entirely on me:
Maps of the American West for FG --- Black Hawk, Colorado --- Dodge City, Kansas --- Victorian Era Tokens - Set A --- Placerville, California --- Salida, Colorado --- Western Tokens Set A --- Western Tokens Set B
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July 18th, 2019, 01:45 #6
Well the recommendation's there for a reason. As you're providing the maps in a Fantasy Grounds module (and assuming they are still 100 pixels per grid square in the FG module) I would have thought it would have been best practice to provide them within (or very close to) the Fantasy Grounds recommended image sizes - to minimize the potential issues FG users may encounter. I've mentioned that these files are much larger than is recommended out of courtesy to try to help you give a reliable FG product to your customers. It's up to you if you decide to do anything about it...
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July 18th, 2019, 03:39 #7
Trenloe, I could very easily rattle off a list of several modules in the FG store with maps that are significantly larger than mine (3+ mb in size and larger in all dimensions and multiples of them in each module). I could point over at the map of the Sword Coast which causes my very powerful computer to pause for quite a while when it loads - that map has to be at least 14mb in size, probably a lot more, and while it isn't intended to be shared, it is easily the most demanding image that I've encountered in Fantasygrounds.
But I don't really see the point of it. FGU will be out soon enough and 64-bit access to memory is going to move the image size recommendations up quite a bit. My module is merely forward looking as will be the ones created in the future.
TopVarious and sundry VTT publications that can be blamed entirely on me:
Maps of the American West for FG --- Black Hawk, Colorado --- Dodge City, Kansas --- Victorian Era Tokens - Set A --- Placerville, California --- Salida, Colorado --- Western Tokens Set A --- Western Tokens Set B
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July 18th, 2019, 04:48 #8
Recommendations are still there for a reason - and we keep stating them. Just because there are the occasional exception (which I also regularly state is OK as an exception) doesn't suddenly mean that the recommendation we've been clearly stating for a number of years is no longer valid.
And, as I frequently state, the main issue is *not* the file size!
Anyway, like I said, it's up to you if you choose to purposefully ignore the recommendations and provide 4 maps that are all way over the recommended size. I just hope that someone buying your way larger than recommended maps, assuming they're designed for Fantasy Grounds (because they come in a Fantasy Grounds module), doesn't have any issues with running out of memory when they're running an involved game with lots of resources.
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July 18th, 2019, 05:11 #9
Funny you mention this - the pixel size of this one-off, exception, not meant to be shared map (Sword Coast map), is approx. 20.5 million pixels. Your top right map (4500x4500) is 20.25 million pixels. So, your map, that you intend to be shared to players, is virtually exactly the same pixel size as the map that you call out as a bad example. And you have three others that aren't too far off this size...
But, hey, you've designed all of these for FGU, so everyone who uses them will be fine... Oh, wait, when does FGU come out again?
I'll leave you to it now, sorry for derailing your thread - I thought I was giving some good advice that would be taken as such. But you obviously know best. Good luck!Last edited by Trenloe; July 18th, 2019 at 05:16.
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July 18th, 2019, 05:44 #10
FWIW, the Sword Coast map was definitely larger than the dimensions you are stating. Like 10k x 6k pixels or something along those lines. It may have been reduced in size / quality because it was a problem, but it was beastly when I was using the product several years ago. I remember when that product was being updated almost weekly because it evidently needed some help.
Right now it is the middle of month 7. FGU beta is what, month 9 or 10? Certainly 12. I created these maps last year and held on to them waiting for FGU. It's close enough.
TopVarious and sundry VTT publications that can be blamed entirely on me:
Maps of the American West for FG --- Black Hawk, Colorado --- Dodge City, Kansas --- Victorian Era Tokens - Set A --- Placerville, California --- Salida, Colorado --- Western Tokens Set A --- Western Tokens Set B
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