Thread: WIP- Vhode Icelands

For what it's worth, you can safely ignore "dpi" if you're not designing for print. All that matters to a VTT is the number of pixels--horizontal and vertical measurements--not how large the image will be on paper, which is the only place that dpi matters.

So for the purposes of this discussion, a more useful question would be "What is your working resolution?"

For some guidelines on mapping for VTTs, it may be useful to look over the dormouse's assessment of the various entries for the May mapping challenge: May Challenge Voting

Those comments relate specifically to making battlemat-scale maps.

Unless sombody requests a print of me, I doubt I'll be printing anything soon. On top of it, I don't have a photoshop 'creativity lisence' thing, as they call it, so it'd be illegal for me to ever sell a print (not that anyone would know but I'd be haunted by it).

What should the measurements / resolution be for a VTT map? Is there a max? Is player scale adjustable in the program? Is the image scale adjustable?
This seems alot more like a region map than a battle scale map, but are region maps also usable in VTT?

I really enjoyed the DnD ruleset and sortof understand it through and through, because of a PC game- Neverwinter Nights. I played on a RP server/world for quite a while. It actually was kinda boring unless a DM/admin was online, then it became fun... that is, if he wasn't giving some epic quest to the other super-high level people. I wonder how/where/when I could play a game or something so I could get somewhat familiar how it works in VTT, I'm certain that would let me know how to create maps alot better designed for game purposes.

Originally Posted by GlassSphere

Unless sombody requests a print of me, I doubt I'll be printing anything soon. On top of it, I don't have a photoshop 'creativity lisence' thing, as they call it, so it'd be illegal for me to ever sell a print (not that anyone would know but I'd be haunted by it).

What should the measurements / resolution be for a VTT map? Is there a max? Is player scale adjustable in the program? Is the image scale adjustable?
This seems alot more like a region map than a battle scale map, but are region maps also usable in VTT?

I really enjoyed the DnD ruleset and sortof understand it through and through, because of a PC game- Neverwinter Nights. I played on a RP server/world for quite a while. It actually was kinda boring unless a DM/admin was online, then it became fun... that is, if he wasn't giving some epic quest to the other super-high level people. I wonder how/where/when I could play a game or something so I could get somewhat familiar how it works in VTT, I'm certain that would let me know how to create maps alot better designed for game purposes.

If you are more intersted in VTT and would like to learn a bit more about D&D at the same time, check out the forums on rptools.net. People frequently post requests for players and some GM's may accept a drop in person who is interested but may not be able to commit to a full time schedule at the time.

Joe

For maptool, around 2000x2000 px is a good size for a map, but it can go larger as long as the file-size is kept under control. Also, it can hold many maps, so larger areas can be broken up a little.