*** May Super Challenge - Minimalist for Virtual Tabletop - WITH PRIZES!!!

[Badger]

Great advice from everyone ... this info all comes in handy .. and yes.. I immediately went over and signed up to check it out ... thought it would be prudent to do so

[Gamerprinter]

Also avoid creating trees and other overhead objects. You see in a VTT app, the map we're creating is for the ground level. Once loaded the user then places PC/NPC/Monster tokens, specific objects. A layer above this is used to place trees and roofs, etc. Thus the tokens can be found between the overhead tree layer and the ground layer.

If you place a tree in your map, then VTT users will find their PC tokens walking on top of the tree, since it is on the ground plane.

Don't place trees, etc.

[RPMiller]

Well, that isn't entirely true but most of it is. In MapTool objects are placed on pseudo layers. The Token Layer is on top of all other layers. So even if you place stamps on the object layer the token is still going to be on top of it. There is a plan to make the layers act more like layers but it is a ways off. I'm not sure how the other VTs handle layering.