MonsterEnvy
Legend
That seemed pretty fiddley, and also was not the programs I was describing.
D&D General Do you want a 3D vtt?
LordEntrails
Hero
Fantasy Grounds does, Just because some VTTs don't, doesn't mean they all don't. FG has tiles with LOS built in-to them right now that you can just pick and place. Makes for quick map making. Like this, two tiles drag and dropped from assets to a new image/map. LOS (here, walls, terrain and doors) already added since they are defined with each tile:
darjr
I crit!
Eh. While everyone starts browsing the web while I fiddle with it. No thanks. I mean I can see people tolerating that but I dint want that.
MonsterEnvy
Legend
Ok that's good (and what I expect from the D&D Digital TT).
LordEntrails
Hero
The UI will be a big thing. But, so will making the technology work 99.999% of the time. People get annoyed when LOS blockers don't connect properly and vision has small splinter gaps through mating segments. Or when visual aspects don't line up, or when water flows uphill, or doors open the wrong way, or don't open at all because of blocking furniture.
All of that is achievable, with enough developer and tester hours. Thousands or tens of thousands of dedicated hours.
How is that different than a 2d map? Like, I see no difference. An awful lot of the negative comments in this thread apply to any type of map, frankly.
J.Quondam
CR 1/8
Not to mention implementing and testing the GM customization tools that will be needed to add/delete/move/alter features in whatever the auto-generator creates.
You aren't the only one seeming to post as if roll20 or foundry is the only VTT out there but people have been telling you for a while that the things you are saying that wotc's barely described VTT might solve have long been solved by other VTTs they use. In actual play doing that is a lot less "fiddly" than it looks when trying to cram a specific example into a short as possible video without dragging it out with any of the many many features that are extraneous to the example. I had originally done a video that made the little room with the barrel too but it was more than twice as long & most of that time was pointlessly picking desirable assets for it
In actual play at the table
the biggest hurdle is not in what I'll paraphrase from 287 as "quickly scrawl some stuff on a whiteboard", that hurdle comes in needing to draw hundreds of feet of stuff in one or more directions because 5e is too PC friendly in expanding the area of scrawl a player can feel justified in expecting to see filled in within the rules. Having 3d makes that an even bigger hurdle by increasing the load on the computer & possibly the GM.
Again, that's a problem with any map (the size thing). And, do your players really expect maps to be infinite in size?
You aren't the only one seeming to post as if roll20 or foundry is the only VTT out there but people have been telling you for a while that the things you are saying that wotc's barely described VTT might solve have long been solved by other VTTs they use. In actual play doing that is a lot less "fiddly" than it looks when trying to cram a specific example into a short as possible video without dragging it out with any of the many many features that are extraneous to the example. I had originally done a video that made the little room with the barrel too but it was more than twice as long & most of that time was pointlessly picking desirable assets for it
In actual play at the table
the biggest hurdle is not in what I'll paraphrase from 287 as "quickly scrawl some stuff on a whiteboard", that hurdle comes in needing to draw hundreds of feet of stuff in one or more directions because 5e is too PC friendly in expanding the area of scrawl a player can feel justified in expecting to see filled in within the rules. Having 3d makes that an even bigger hurdle by increasing the load on the computer & possibly the GM.
