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<blockquote data-quote="Redrobes" data-source="post: 5086307" data-attributes="member: 40793">As the ViewingDale dev I think you would find it interesting since you are able to use large maps and project them up.I have a <a href="http://www.viewing.ltd.uk//Temp/CG/VD_Demo8/ViewingDale_x264.avi" target="_blank">Demo video of it running</a> in x264 format. In there you will see that at any point you can link to pics. You can also link to text, sound, web pages and almost anything in fact so you can link to the D20 monster stats or tables or whatever is hosted on a site or what you can get downloaded.Theres plenty of sites covering its features but it does also have some projector features for you too. Its a map browser and VTT so you can put your characters on it at any point.Anyway, I was posting to pick up on your desire to get an official WotC version of a VTT. I just dont get why people want this. Whatever they would deliver would be a compromise to suit their ends. Firstly, although mine is not free, there are free VTTs about. Next I dont think that internally there is the ability to program it. Next I dont see how they can generate revenue from it when people would camp with the free ones anyway. Remember that with MapTool which is pretty popular, the code is open source so they cant license it in any exclusive way. The reason why they dont get of their asses is because theres a big gap between where they are and having something thats competitive.The way I see it, you have everything you could possibly want right now.P.S in my sig is Druthruss char sheet which is a screen shot page from ViewingDale of my 4e char on here. Its got links on that page to the current area map image, the game thread and other info too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Redrobes, post: 5086307, member: 40793"] As the ViewingDale dev I think you would find it interesting since you are able to use large maps and project them up. I have a [url=http://www.viewing.ltd.uk//Temp/CG/VD_Demo8/ViewingDale_x264.avi]Demo video of it running[/url] in x264 format. In there you will see that at any point you can link to pics. You can also link to text, sound, web pages and almost anything in fact so you can link to the D20 monster stats or tables or whatever is hosted on a site or what you can get downloaded. Theres plenty of sites covering its features but it does also have some projector features for you too. Its a map browser and VTT so you can put your characters on it at any point. Anyway, I was posting to pick up on your desire to get an official WotC version of a VTT. I just dont get why people want this. Whatever they would deliver would be a compromise to suit their ends. Firstly, although mine is not free, there are free VTTs about. Next I dont think that internally there is the ability to program it. Next I dont see how they can generate revenue from it when people would camp with the free ones anyway. Remember that with MapTool which is pretty popular, the code is open source so they cant license it in any exclusive way. The reason why they dont get of their asses is because theres a big gap between where they are and having something thats competitive. The way I see it, you have everything you could possibly want right now. P.S in my sig is Druthruss char sheet which is a screen shot page from ViewingDale of my 4e char on here. Its got links on that page to the current area map image, the game thread and other info too. [/QUOTE]

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