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Live Mapping: Dungeon Tiles
This week, it is my turn to bother you again. This time I am going to be talking a little about how to make printable dungeon tiles that you can use to assemble a dungeon on the fly during your sessions.
As usual, the video will start at 18:00 Norwegain Standard Time. If you for some reason don't happen to live in Norway, you can find the time in your timezone by clicking the handy YouTube video link below, or you can look at the listing in the forum sidebar to the left, if you are logged into the forum, it should display it in your local time.
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Cosmographer - symbols tiny and offset from cursor / grid
I'm still curious about the weird offset, though.
The offset is because in Traveller, the base is supposed to be in the same Hex as the planet, in the 10 o'clock position. With the offset in place, you just click the planet down in the middle of the hex, then followed by the base in the same position, and thanks to the offset, it will be perfectly placed every time.
The reason you get it in a different hex is that you have the symbols scaled too large. I realize that this is how you probably want them, but in Traveller, the planets only occupy a small part of the hex, with room for symbols and names surrounding it in the same hex.
If you are not making a traveller map, I recommend using a different symbol catalog. You'll find the same symbol sin other Cosmographer catalogs without the offset, with the exception of those very simple Traveller-spesific symbols (Such as the bases)
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Cosmographer - symbols tiny and offset from cursor / grid
Which symbols are you trying to place? Almost all of the Traveller symbols are designed to be offset to the placement point (center of the hex) on purpose, because they are supposed to be placed according to the official guidelines. Only the main world itself will be centered, the other symbols are intended to "surround" it at fixed offset/position depending on symbol type.
As for scale, the Traveller symbols are scaled to fit a grid size of 1. If you make your hex grid larger than that, you also need to change the symbol scale accordingly.







