Hi everyone! :D

Due to popular demand, in this week's Live Mapping session Ralf will be continuing the New City Style series - completing the example town and castle he started in part 3 of the series.

Come and join in the discussion here on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFAao-FUZnM

Or you can watch it here if you wish.

All the previous live mapping sessions in this series (and hundreds of others as well) can be found here:

Most of the DD3 textures are created as seamless textures that usually cover 5 or 10 square feet on the map. So the default scale for most of them is either 10 x 10 or 5 x 5 map units where each map unit is equivalent to 1 foot. That should make them the right size for your dungeon map by default.

However...

The wooden floor textures are rectangular seamless tiles that are twice as long as they are wide (if horizontal floorboards are chosen) as you can see here in the folder

So the correct scale to set for that floor texture for your imperial map is 10 x 5.

If you don't like the boards that thick you can make them appear thinner and more numerous per 5ft square by adjusting the scale down from 10 x 5 to 8 x 4 like I have in this example below. That give you 5 boards in a 5ft square, making each floorboard 1ft wide.

As far as I can tell from your screen shots you have drawn a patch of floor that is only 5ft square, like the smallest patch of floor I have drawn to the left side in my map. So you would only expect to have a few floorboards in it.

Once you draw a larger more realistically sized floor area there will be more floorboards - as you can see from my drawing above. The scale of the texture determines how big it appears relative to the grid, and not to how big your room is.

Make sure that you are drawing your rooms to scale, so that a 20 x 20 ft room is 4 grid squares wide and tall.

Hi Martin :)

That's a really great first map (and I'm not just saying that because you worked my name into the labels).

Hi Viepyr :)

Click the little window as the far right end of the Status Bar (top of the window) where "FS:...." appears.

Click the "Bitmap fills" tab in the dialog that appears, and select the fill you want to rescale from the Fill Style Name dropdown box.

In the "Specifications" sub-panel there is a checkbox called "Scaled" with a "Width" and "Height" specified next to it. Make sure that box is checked and scale the fill according to how many map units wide and high you want it to be.

That's good :)

To put the effect on the whole map add it with the Whole Drawing radio button selected.