[D20 Modern]Department 7 (OOC)

[VanorDM]

The GM post is up, and you're all in Wescot.

I hope everyone enjoys what's about to happen.

On a side note, I use a Virtual Tabletop program to run the game, and have a selection of 'soldiers' to use as tokens. But if you have something else you'd like to use for your token let me know or send it to me and I'll use that instead.

 

[perrinmiller]

I would like to use Kara's portrait. If you need me to do something to it let me know (i.e. make it a circular picture and/or bitmap). I could do the same for the other guys as well (Rory, Nick & Ming at least, no picture of Rodny yet). BTW my picture of Ming is the armored Chinese guy posted on this thread earlier.

Edit: So now I could do all five.

 

[ThWatcher]

Added picture for Rodny to the Character sheet on Plots and Places.

 

[VanorDM]

If you need me to do something to it let me know

Thanks but I don't need anything done. The program that I use to make the icon's is almost stupidly easy to use. You don't even need to open the image, just drag it onto the program put it where you want it and it does all the rest.

I'll make up some tokens based on pictures from the P&P thread tomorrow.

 

[perrinmiller]

What program are you using? Does it crop pictures to circles?

 

[VanorDM]

What program are you using? Does it crop pictures to circles?

It's called maptools, it's a freeware Virtual Tabletop program. One of the programs it comes with is token maker, which makes the tokens.

It's a very slick program, you just drag the picture onto it and it does everything for you. Crops the image, adds the border, makes it the correct format for the maptools program, ect.

 

[perrinmiller]

Cool, I'll look into it. Currently I am using Campaign Cartographer 2 (CC2) and I recently used GIMP to edit bitmaps to circles to then import them for making tokens on my maps. CC2 had a high learning curve to create the maps initially, but it is easy to do updates during combat and save good resolution PNG files to email to my players. Once I have the master map of the dungeon completed, zooming in to make tac grids is easy.

 

[VanorDM]

Currently I am using Campaign Cartographer 2

I've played with it and found the learning curb a bit too steep for the amount of time I can spend learning it.

Maptools is a bit simpler, so naturally it's also a bit more limited, but it makes maps that are good enough and I can make them quickly.

 

[perrinmiller]

The Wescot map was made with it, yes?

 

[VanorDM]

The Wescot map was made with it, yes?

Yes the Wescot map and the museum maps as well. Neither one are highly detailed, I could make a much nicer looking map if I wanted to. But I don't have a whole lot of time to do that, so I settle for quick-n-dirty, yet effective.