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4 years ago ::
Jan 13, 2009 - 9:12PM
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Yeah.. Looks great but very expensive...
Trust me I know. Certainly the software isn't for everyone. Not only is it expensive but the learning curve to use it is VERY large. It takes a lot of practice and time to get very good (which I consider myself only a moderate user...not an expert by any stretch of the imagination). I would warn anyone before they bought it to be serious about spending time to learn it. It is not very user friendly and almost backwards in the way it works in comparison to other photo editing software you have ever used.
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4 years ago ::
Jan 30, 2009 - 2:49PM
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These maps are *awesome*. I had already printed out the inn & street maps for the first two encounters, and was not looking forward to doing the rest. I have access at work to a plotter that prints in 24"x36" sheets, big enough to fit the entire Antler and Thistle to scale on a page. I was able to take your maps and glue them together in GIMP and get some REALLY nice printouts, a million times easier than grabbing individual rooms out of the PDF. During play I took pieces of black construction paper and laid them over the map, and slid them out of the way as players moved around. It was so much faster than using tiles. If you can get your hands on one of these I highly recommend it  --K
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4 years ago ::
Feb 11, 2009 - 10:34PM
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Feb 12, 2009
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hey this is gunna sound weird but is there any way i could get these maps all put together already i have a wonderful thing called a plotter at my school i could print the whole map on which would be very awesome
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4 years ago ::
Feb 12, 2009 - 4:40AM
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hey this is gunna sound weird but is there any way i could get these maps all put together already i have a wonderful thing called a plotter at my school i could print the whole map on which would be very awesome
I just used GIMP to copy the images and paste them into a single large image. Getting the edges to line up was pretty easy with the grid lines. Worked out fine for me.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 12, 2009 - 3:06PM
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hey this is gunna sound weird but is there any way i could get these maps all put together already i have a wonderful thing called a plotter at my school i could print the whole map on which would be very awesome
Be careful - if I were caught 'abusing' the plotter back when I was in design school I'd have been in serious deep doo-doo. Costs way more for ink than you might realize.
But it would be freaking awesome. Go do it.
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4 years ago ::
Feb 13, 2009 - 1:34AM
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Date Joined:
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I just used GIMP to copy the images and paste them into a single large image. Getting the edges to line up was pretty easy with the grid lines. Worked out fine for me.
I use a projector to display my maps down onto the table top. So a full sized map of the whole dungeon level as one huge JPG would be perfect for me.
Kutula, any chance (with Steeljaw's permission) you could make the combined Dungeon Level maps available? I'm sure there would be a lot of people interested in this.
Cheers
Blakey
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4 years ago ::
Feb 13, 2009 - 2:55PM
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Kutula, any chance (with Steeljaw's permission) you could make the combined Dungeon Level maps available? I'm sure there would be a lot of people interested in this.
Someone else also asked me just today for these, I will see if I still have them.
Just as an aside, GIMP printing in Windows is pretty useless -- it seems to have no concept of print scale or DPI. So my typical process is to make the .xcfs, flatten them to PNG, take them to work on my USB key, print them out, and delete the images. But I don't always delete the images, so I'll see if I still have them around. If I do find them I'll ask Steeljaw if I can put them up somewhere.
--K
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4 years ago ::
Feb 13, 2009 - 5:53PM
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I don't mind if you post them.
I plan to release all of the maps in full jpeg and Campaign Cartographer 3 format files soon.
SJ
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4 years ago ::
Feb 19, 2009 - 12:30PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 28, 2001
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I don't mind if you post them.
I plan to release all of the maps in full jpeg and Campaign Cartographer 3 format files soon.
SJ
Do you mean all linked together as one big jpeg? That's what I'm really after...
Blakey
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4 years ago ::
Feb 21, 2009 - 3:14PM
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Do you mean all linked together as one big jpeg? That's what I'm really after...
Blakey
I've posted the rivenroar maps, one jpg per level, on the enworld form under steeljaw's original post. I don't have the final bordrin's watch ones but I did find some of my intermediate files on my pc, so I'll just finish them up and post them. Probably later this week.
--K
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