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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pneumatik" data-source="post: 5323059" data-attributes="member: 21087">I've been thinking about how to implement an online battlemat easily and cheaply. I would build a table of square cells with cellpadding = 0 and cellspacing = a couple of pixels. The cellspacing would be colored black or white to make the grid. Each cell would have its own square image that exactly fills a table cell. The edge cells would have numbers or letters in them for reference. And that's the starting battlemat.There would also be icons for PCs, monsters, whatever. They'd have a transparent background and would also go centered in a cell. So now you have a battlemat with stuff on it.To build the battlemat you tell the site how large you want it to be (or there could just be a standard size) and it generates an empty table with a checkbox in each cell. Below the table would be a a set of images. You'd check boxes in all the cells you want a particular background and and then click the background to put it in all those cells. Once you've filled all the cells with background you'd go to a similar screen with the icons to place in cells over the background images. Ultimately you want to be able to put multiple icons on top of each other for stuff like grappling and tiny monsters. Hopefully ENWorld could get someone to make some basic map tiles, but people should be able to upload their own images sets, too.The simple version of permissions is to restrict editing to just the DM or allow anyone to change anything. The awesome version would be to let the DM move everyone and players only move their icons. Maybe they could also upload those icons themselves. To move you just go into the "edit" mode for the battlemat, click your icon, and then click the square you want it to move to.More awesomeness would allow you to set mouseover or popup text (like the site's xp popup) for each icon to keep up to date with PCs. Even better would be to make that text editable directly, so you could edit HPs or mark off cast spells or annotate buffs directly from the battlemat.So, yeah, that's a wall of text, but I think the html is at least straightforward. There's no fiddly adjustments to make things line up and no image processing for the site to do. I have no idea how hard it would be to program though.</blockquote>

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