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Aurora Toolset Gridding?

Lobo Lurker

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Hi All. I'll be running a play-by-post soon and was thinking of using the Aurora Toolset (from Neverwinter Nights) to do the mapping for me.

Question: Does anyone know an easy way to grid one of those maps?
 

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D'karr

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Lobo Lurker said:
Hi All. I'll be running a play-by-post soon and was thinking of using the Aurora Toolset (from Neverwinter Nights) to do the mapping for me.

Question: Does anyone know an easy way to grid one of those maps?

You could probably get a screen capture and modify the resulting file.
 


Lobo Lurker

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Just to update for anyone interested, a screenshot coupled with Macromedia's Fireworks program looks like it might do the trick. :)
 

takyris

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I do something a bit like it. I make the map, do the screenshot, and convert it into a file of the right size. Then I put it up in a directory where my buddy has made a simple CGI-script that makes a map out of an HTML table with regular-sized cells and picks the image I uploaded as the background. As long as I remember that 20 pixels = one five-foot square, I can have a big-honking outdoor map, with the HTML table serving as the grid.

And we're doing IRC, which is why it's CGI-script -- I can dynamically create and move people. For a play-by-post game, you can just do it in normal HTML and move people yourself as the players send you requests.
 

Lobo Lurker

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Yeah, I'll make the area, then screen shot it. In Fireworks I can assign the grid to a layer and the pcs/monsters in another grid and update on a roung-by-round basis. :)

Sounds simple enough.
 

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