July Challenge: Hebbie's Ale House

[SeerBlue]

it was decided that the furniture were more than abit shiny, too shiny, for Hebbie's, so the "League of Nickers and Scratchers, West Arcanspike Division, Level Zed Qualified" were hired in to have at the goods, with a "crosscats" (crosshatch) "fitler", which I like so much I just have to find a use for.

We also discovered something that I am sure everyone who uses a vtt is aware of, things like our radiant heat rafters in the image, or any thing that would be above the tokens in use, has to be its own layer,,playing about with the tokens in a psd layer it were aptly spotted that we had to add the rafters, and the tops of the wall, so the chairs wouldn't appear to be the same height.

Hmmmm, how is this handled in a real vtt, a separate sheet for objects that interfere with line of sight when viewed top down?

SeerBlue and the "League of Nickers and Scratchers, West Arcanspike Division, Level Zed Qualified", in sotto voce, "fleas hired at an additional rate, term of residence varies."

[torstan]

I love how this is coming on. My own efforts are still on paper at the moment.

The overhead stuff is usually removed for VTT use to avoid the appearance of floating tokens. Obviously walls and other objects that start at ground height and go up are exceptions to this rule. Another option is to fade out the overhead objects so that they are semi-transparent. Then people can at least see that there are objects overhead.

No problem having this stuff in for the competition of course as the maps are supposed to be fully baked in for the competition. However it would be great if all the overhead stuff can be easily removed after we're all done with our entries so that it can be easily imported into VTTs for game play.

[SeerBlue]

Thanks torstan, easily done, everything is component in Sketchup, so we just hide it.

You surely must finish your map, the FHCO's would love to play it, we've put maptool on their computer, and modelling it would be a treat. They have a new ruby script for sketchup to play with SubdivideandSmooth, which is a treat to make more organic shapes/models with.
They were quite shocked to learn they can download and play other folks creations.

SeerBlue and the FHCO's

[RPMiller]

You surely must finish your map, the FHCO's would love to play it, we've put maptool on their computer, and modelling it would be a treat.

You got MapTool to work on their PC? Excellent!

[SeerBlue]

Well, their PC is newer, faster, quiter, and a whole slew of other 'ers, than my laptop.
But since they can't tote it over here, they would try given the chance, I originally put the older version on the laptop here so they could get a feel for the program, and then the newer version went on theirs.
So they are set. even grabbed the associated apps/tools for 'em, just have to sit down and play.
SeerBlue

[Redrobes]

RP - you should set up a guild members maptool sesh ! Possibly with the challenge winners map.

[industrygothica]

RP - you should set up a guild members maptool sesh ! Possibly with the challenge winners map.

That there is a darn fine idea. I'm interested to see how that works in real life...