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<blockquote data-quote="FoxWander" data-source="post: 5459613" data-attributes="member: 1356"><p>I'm partial to Maptools because of its fairly short learning curve (and price <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />). But yes, maps can be made very quick on the fly. Here's 2 videos which showcase just that:</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDkviZW1rCc&feature=related" target="_blank">Maptool Quick Maps 1</a> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOChfQAT-z4&feature=related" target="_blank">Maptool Quick Maps 2</a> </p><p>These folks are rather experienced with the interface and keyboard shortcuts, but it doesn't take much to learn it that well. And of course it would be just as easy to do this as pre-game prep work. Not to mention that there are tons of pre-made maps available that can be dumped into Maptools just to take advantage of the easy grid movement and spell area templates without bothering to set up fog-of-war/line-of-sight blocking. The rptools and dunjinni forums are awesome for user-made miniature scale adventure maps.</p><p></p><p>Finally here's another vid (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1WqdPy655k" target="_blank">Digital Tabletop Demo</a>) that uses <a href="http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/" target="_blank">Johnny Lee's</a> wiimote whiteboard hacks to make maptools (and other programs) interactive with a projector.</p><p></p><p>The first couple of minutes just show interactively scrolling around maps. From the 2-5 minute mark they appear to use photoshop to overlay a dungeon map with a fog-of-war texture and manually erase it to show progress thru the dungeon. But fast-forward to 5:19 and see how you can use maptools as digital graph paper- but with snap-to-grid easy lines, texture fills, and the ability to pull the map over to the DM for easy drawing then slide it back under the PC minis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FoxWander, post: 5459613, member: 1356"] I'm partial to Maptools because of its fairly short learning curve (and price ;)). But yes, maps can be made very quick on the fly. Here's 2 videos which showcase just that: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDkviZW1rCc&feature=related"]Maptool Quick Maps 1[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOChfQAT-z4&feature=related"]Maptool Quick Maps 2[/url] These folks are rather experienced with the interface and keyboard shortcuts, but it doesn't take much to learn it that well. And of course it would be just as easy to do this as pre-game prep work. Not to mention that there are tons of pre-made maps available that can be dumped into Maptools just to take advantage of the easy grid movement and spell area templates without bothering to set up fog-of-war/line-of-sight blocking. The rptools and dunjinni forums are awesome for user-made miniature scale adventure maps. Finally here's another vid ([url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1WqdPy655k"]Digital Tabletop Demo[/url]) that uses [URL="http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/"]Johnny Lee's[/URL] wiimote whiteboard hacks to make maptools (and other programs) interactive with a projector. The first couple of minutes just show interactively scrolling around maps. From the 2-5 minute mark they appear to use photoshop to overlay a dungeon map with a fog-of-war texture and manually erase it to show progress thru the dungeon. But fast-forward to 5:19 and see how you can use maptools as digital graph paper- but with snap-to-grid easy lines, texture fills, and the ability to pull the map over to the DM for easy drawing then slide it back under the PC minis. [/QUOTE]
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