So you are all going to laugh at me.....
But I love CC3, and I've bought pretty much everything (Save for the 2017 cartographer's annual), and I've made some really great maps for personal use in Roll20 games. People are always wowed at the quality of the art, and even though I've spent a week's salary on this, every penny's been well spent.
I love CC3 so much, in fact, that when I accepted a challenge to change art style to 32x32 pixel 16-bit video game pixel art for mapping, I got insanely frustrated working with pixel art mapping programs like Tiled, and would much rather use CC3 and maintain the video gamey look.
Problem is, all the art styles I have accsess too are just too damn high quality! I found lots of great video gamey assets, and tried importing as fill styles, but even tinkering with the settings i'm aware of (i'm sure there's settings i'm not aware of!) the resolution was about 100x too good.
I need to, basically, do this:
Create a map style template
with fill styles made out of 32x32 pixel textures
with a catalouge of imported 32x32 pixel base objects (some are mult-tile, so can be as big as 128x128)
and have the output be extremey low resolution, to where 5 feet = 32 pixels
I can't seem to figure out where to start here. Any advice? (i have the textures already, allt he assets i got from creative commons outlets like opengameart.com)
I love CC3 so much, in fact, that when I accepted a challenge to change art style to 32x32 pixel 16-bit video game pixel art for mapping, I got insanely frustrated working with pixel art mapping programs like Tiled, and would much rather use CC3 and maintain the video gamey look.
Problem is, all the art styles I have accsess too are just too damn high quality! I found lots of great video gamey assets, and tried importing as fill styles, but even tinkering with the settings i'm aware of (i'm sure there's settings i'm not aware of!) the resolution was about 100x too good.
I need to, basically, do this:
Create a map style template
with fill styles made out of 32x32 pixel textures
with a catalouge of imported 32x32 pixel base objects (some are mult-tile, so can be as big as 128x128)
and have the output be extremey low resolution, to where 5 feet = 32 pixels
I can't seem to figure out where to start here. Any advice? (i have the textures already, allt he assets i got from creative commons outlets like opengameart.com)
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As far as campaign-level, its simple enough I can use tiled for it.
Thanks! :)
- Start with a reasonably empty template.
- Import fill styles (Tools -> Import bitmap fill styles). Do NOT check the 'create other resolutions' option. Enable scaled, and set it to 5. This should make the 32x32 texture fill 5 map units.
- Import your symbols (Symbols -> Import png's). Again, DON'T create other resolutions. Set the Highest resolution to 32 pixels per drawing unit.
- After importing the symbols, open the symbol manager, select all the symbols, hit the scale button, and scale them all by 5
- Now, you can either use the symbols directly from the map (By clicking the 'symbols in map button' on top of the symbol catalog, or saving them in a separate symbol catalog from symbol manager (select them and 'save as catalog'))
- When exporting, figure out exactly how large the area you export is (I recommend using rectangular PNG exports) and input the export size (height and width) as map size divided by 5 multiplied by 32
Thanks for the roadmap, ill let you know how it turns out.