Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

[Steel_Wind]

If you're really looking to shell out some money, this would make for an incredible projector screen to lay out on a table. It's a touch screen white board...

Teamboard

They come in much larger sizes than the one pictured here, and they're not cheap. They are, however, pretty freaking cool.

Aye. Very cool indeed. Would be cooler still if you didn't need a projector to get the underlying image though.

Still... Don't like the price and capabilites just yet? Wait a bit. We'll get there

Thanks for posting this. I was not familiar with this product line.

 

[Boredflak]

If you're really looking to shell out some money, this would make for an incredible projector screen to lay out on a table. It's a touch screen white board...

Teamboard

They come in much larger sizes than the one pictured here, and they're not cheap. They are, however, pretty freaking cool.

OK. As long as we're dreaming, and throwing the budget out the window, let's install this SMART board in the center of the game table.

Pass me a another tankard of Dom Perignon, and get me some more beluga caviar to dip my Fritos in!

 

[megamania]

I've tried this at a con before using an overhead projector but this is sooooo much cooler and better even. Kudos- you have the envy of most all here at EN World.

 

[Dax Doomslayer]

Yup - very cool just waiting for the guide . . .

 

[3d6+15]

Happy happy happy!

Pics! I had my game Saturday and boy did we love the projector. We turned the lights down quite a bit for the photos, and the resolution on our camera leaves something to be desired, but we were all very happy with the results during game play (where we had the lights bright enough to see by but dim enough for a nice bright image on the table).

Unfortunately you can't see my minis real good in any of these shots, but they stand out pretty good when we are at the table.

A campsite at night being attacked by wights. I whipped this campsite up in NWN Toolset in two minutes. Forest Tileset, add road, add campfire, add wagon, and add oxen. Done.

A hexified overland map map for our adventure that I got from some website over the years (i'd give credit where it is due, but I can't remember where it came from). You can't see it but I'm using Paintshop Pro from Jasc, and I have a layer which just has a Red X in it that I can move around to mark overland progress. (They are in Hommlet when I had this up so the red X is on a red dot.

Inside a ruined and empty abandoned Inn being attacked by a ghost. Another map in the NWN mapper. Just an empty featureless inn. Took about 30 seconds. (no placeables since it's empty but for rubble. I suppose I could have hunted around for some rubble.)

And the projector itself in its happy home.

For good measure, I give you, Chaise de Cthulhu.

Enjoy!

 

[Eltern]

Just want to second Klooge.

http://www.kloogeinc.com/werks/

Pretty much the perfect program for presenting this sort of thing. I've used it, and I've done stuff with paintshop and photoshop and klooge works the best for a gaming session, in terms of ease of use.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Most excellent pics Waiting to see some more from others.

The removal of the drop ceiling tile to get some more room was a nice idea too.

As you've noticed by now, using NWN interiors screws up your sense of scale if they have furniture in them. Your room is far either too big or your furniture is.

At some point, I am going to grab a tileset off of NWVault that has the furniture stripped from all interiors rooms and figure out the scale I need to use to make all the furniture placeables at the correct scale for use with NWN, the create a set of placeables for projector use using the scaling wizard in NWmax.

The problem with the interiors, as you have noticed, is that they are NWN cavernous in size in relation to the furniture. This is a pathfinding issue in NWN itself that requires all terrain to be so oversized and massive. You can use zooming to adjust for this for use with a projector, but then the furniture is off in size.

Glad you loved the projector though! If your image is a touch dark, switching to a pre-gridded piece of white foam core or bristle board should work nicely (as would a 1" square presentation pad).

 

[3d6+15]

As you've noticed by now, using NWN interiors screws up your sense of scale if they have furniture in them. Your room is far either too big or your furniture is.

At some point, I am going to grab a tileset off of NWVault that has the furniture stripped from all interiors rooms and figure out the scale I need to use to make all the furniture placeables at the correct scale for use with NWN, the create a set of placeables for projector use using the scaling wizard in NWmax.

The problem with the interiors, as you have noticed, is that they are NWN cavernous in size in relation to the furniture. This is a pathfinding issue in NWN itself that requires all terrain to be so oversized and massive. You can use zooming to adjust for this for use with a projector, but then the furniture is off in size.

Oh yes, I have noticed. I'd be very interested in the details of this should you get around to doing it.

I know very little about the more advanced custom work for NWN, but I was playing around and editing some ascii mdl files (without really knowing what I am doing) and making models that give off a radius of light in the mapper. Depending on the zoom factor this could be really cool as light sources (just move it to stay centered on the PC with the torch...). I also goofed around with the model "Firestorm" to try to get a "fireball template" tweaking some values in the emitters and stuff. Fun stuff, too bad I'm as amatuer as they come.

 

[Nyrath]

Side view

This is the most incredible game innovation I have ever seen. I want one.

Now I am speculating here. What I am suggesting may not be practical, but I thought I throw it out in the hopes that it would spark some ideas.

Some people cannot mount the projector on the ceiling for a variety of reasons. I have already read a post where somebody is projecting the map on the wall and is using red dots to indicate character positions.

In office supply stores, I have seen large whiteboards that are also magnetic. Do you see where I'm going here?

If you have strong magnets or lightweight plastic miniatures, it might be possible to afix magnets to the bases so the miniatures will stick to the whiteboard. Failing that, a less elegant solution is printable magnetic sheeting. This is available as some art and craft stores. You feed it into an ink jet printer, and print it with images of your characters and various monsters. Cut them out and stick on the whiteboard.

Again, this is just brainstorming.

 

[thalmin]

I picked up a couple of magnetic white-boards at CostCo, I think they are 24"X36". They even have a grid of sorts on them. They have dots every inch.