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    Default Breach hull, all die. An Introduction

    Howdy. I've been enjoying this forum and using its tutorials for several years now so I guess its time to become a productive member of society or some such. I was born back it 1978 and have been enjoying RPGs since I was a kid and with the help of some graph paper and liberal squinting making functional if not artistic maps nearly as long. My current obsession is trying to make high detail encounter style maps. I have no training but manage to monkey-on-obelisk my way through PS and an outdated version of blender when needs be. All the people here who have taken time out of their personal lives to post tutorials and help others are my personal heroes, thank you!

    Here is a sample of a few recent pieces I've done. I de-biggunated them as to be polite.
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    Welcome to the Guild! those maps look really good!

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    Welcome to official membership in the Guild! Excellent maps, worthy of some Rep!

    My only complaint is that you de-biggunated them to much. They would be more useful for game play if they were larger. The Forum allows each map to be a little over 4 MB. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge!

    Thanks

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    Ah. I'm terrible at using forums and couldn't find the information on preferred image sizes and the like. The originals are 3000px to a side but I didn't want to get my wrist slapped for excessive uploading. Thanks for the hint!

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    Gosh if we got in trouble for excessive uploading, I'd be in big trouble for all my goofy little diagrams

    Anyway, HI! Great maps, and welcome to the fora!

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    Hi, you made some very goods maps. Welcome to the Guild and have some Rep!

    the file limit is 4.67 mb and my largest image was around 37 millions pixels (8 492px × 4 356px) but I do not know the exact limit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azelor View Post
    Hi, you made some very goods maps. Welcome to the Guild and have some Rep!

    the file limit is 4.67 mb and my largest image was around 37 millions pixels (8 492px × 4 356px) but I do not know the exact limit.
    I don't get that... I had one that was 3000 x 4500 px and it wouldn't upload cause it was too big (around 6 mb)

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    Thanks for all the warm welcomes and the upload info!

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    Pixel size and file size are only related if the file is uncompressed. PNG & JPG are both compressed formats so it depends on what file type you save as. Generally we like JPG for artsy maps like these or PNG for diagrammatic / vector style maps. We do support SVG format too tho.

    You know we should redo the challenge we once did which was to make any kind of map you like but it has to be at least 1024x768 size and no more than 64Kb.

    We all learned a lot about file compression out of that one.

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    Well... how do I make my big ole map a smaller file size so I don't lose quality?

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