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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6405461" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Okay, so I've downloaded a variety of tiles over the years--but I've never done all that much with them. The problem: user-friendliness (or lack thereof).First you have to find software you can stomach. Currently, I'm just using GIMP with some snap to grid settings, since I haven't found anything with a really simple drag and drop interface that isn't a monster of features that I don't want to navigate and learn how to use. If anyone knows of anything really simple that would do that easier than GIMP and let me export maps, let me know.But the immediate issue is tilesets that are way too limited in what they can handle. Now, I don't mean limited in the sense that I can't build a big-top circus tent on the rings of Saturn. I mean limited in that they can't build perfectly reasonable D&D dungeons.For our example, since it's what I was working on when my current frustration ensued, take Cragmaw Castle (Lost Mine of Phandelver, D&D 5e Starter Set). If you don't know what it looks like, look here:<a href="http://mikeschley.zenfolio.com/p856083253/h22CA342B#h22ca342b" target="_blank">http://mikeschley.zenfolio.com/p856083253/h22CA342B#h22ca342b</a>Pretty basic looking, right? Apparently not. First of all, I have a hard time finding circular areas that I can use to make those towers out of. Tilesets don't like to give you those. Then I found something amazingly brilliant, with all the circularity I'd need here:<a href="http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=21380" target="_blank">http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=21380</a>Man was I excited about that. Unfortunately, it won't work. Why? Because everything is surrounded by black backgrounds instead of transparency. Apparently Maptools needs that for lighting or some such thing that does me no good. As it is now, those nice circular towers cover the surrounding lands in blackness (or are themselves covered in blackness by the floor nearby). I tried converting black to transparency, but that took out all the black so you could see through the topmost tiles to the tile underneath--not a desired outcome. They would work pretty great if I spent an inordinate amount of time painstakingly using GIMP to manually remove all the black borders. Did I mention painstakingly, and inordinate? Not gonna happen.So I'm just wondering if anyone happens to have any drag and drop tilesets that you could use to make Cragmaw Castle (assuming you overlap tiles and drop things like doors and small walls on top). I figure any tileset that would allow for that would allow for most of my dungeon mapping needs.Thanks for any ideas!</blockquote>

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