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Legacy_Tarot Redhand

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Micro Maps - The Brainstorm has landed
« on: February 26, 2011, 11:17:24 am »


               I uploaded this to the vault yesterday and have just uploaded a corrected version this morning (details on the vault page). As usual, I have included a link in my sig. Apologies to anyone who has already downloaded it, for any inconvenience caused.

This is a collection of 36 maps, which are PC sized and PC usable. Each one consists of a placeable, an (inventory) item and a visual effect. In practice this means that a PC can obtain them from all the usual places. If the map is on the ground they will see a large map that they can pick up by clicking on it. If the map is in a container they will see the usual, much reduced in size, inventory image. If they “use” a map while it is in their inventory a visual representation of the map will hover in the air next to them for a period of 20 seconds. If they remove a map from their inventory what happens depends on where they remove it to. If it is dropped on the ground, the large map will appear at their feet. Placing it into a container will result in the usual small image appearing in the inventory of the container.

The following is a list of all the maps contained in this package.

Aenea               Anauroch                Ansalon             Blood Omen (Nosgoth)
Burnt Maps (2)      Custom (Blank)          Dales               Earthsea
Earthsea (Gont)     Eberon                  Faerun              Faerun 2E
Furyondy            Golarian                Greyhawk            Hyboria
Kara Tur            Khorvaire               Middle Earth        Map Mats Integration Demo
Moonsea             Narnia                  Oz                  Phlan
Ravens Bluff        Rohan                   Shadow Plane        Sigil
Silverymoon         Taladas                 Tyr                 Wonderland (Dark)
Wonderland (Light)  Young Kingdoms          Zakhara

Although compatible, Map Mats is NOT required in order to use this package.

Package contains 1 hak, 1 erf, 2 modules, 3 pdf documents (readme, catalogue, make your own) and a tga base image.

Credits (with links) in the readme.

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Legacy_DM_Vecna

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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2011, 06:11:10 pm »


               I really love your creations. However I have my fingers crossed for a minimap tileset one day. '<img'>



Seriously though, keep up the great work.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Karvon

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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2011, 06:37:15 pm »


               Very cool idea, two thumbs up!  '<img'>



There are at least a couple of minimap tilesets on the Vault.  An original one was done for FR and I did a reskinned one for GH.



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Legacy_Tarot Redhand

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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2011, 09:20:34 pm »


               Thanks guys. Errr... I might sound stupid but what do you actually meen by a minimap tileset?

Oh and can anyone who downloads it let me know if the instructions for creating a single custom map to use with it are clear enough, please.



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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2011, 09:23:15 pm »


               Duplicate created because initially the original post didn't show. Sorry about that.

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                     Modifié par Tarot Redhand, 26 février 2011 - 09:24 .
                     
                  


            

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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2011, 09:29:24 pm »


               I took minimap tileset to mean that the map is actually embedded on the tile.  The two examples I mentioned are found at the Vault:

Greyhawk World Map

Area Map

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« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2011, 06:29:21 am »


               What I meant by a minimap tileset is a tileset that has different land and water features and simple topography that can be used with placeables like I suggested here:
http://social.biowar...1/index/5205622
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2011, 12:20:23 am »


               Just uploaded version 1.5 with 36 additional (72 total) maps.

DM_Vecna you have checked out my Map Mats I presume? I realise it's not a tileset but in some ways it's more versatile.

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