Monsen
Monsen
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[WIP] Community Atlas - River Watch - Druid villages
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which is the best format for export for battlemaps
The most important point when exporting to an image is to set an appropriate export resolution. Personally, when I export battlemaps, I export them at a minimum of 100 pixels per grid square (usually 5' squares) for a decent quality. Of course, the higher the resolution, the larger the image, so you will often need to consider the tradeoff between quality and smaller file size if you are using it online in a VTT or similar unless everyone involved have very fast connections.
Png is the better format, but it is also about 6 times as large as jpg, so often even if jpg is a lower quality for the same size image, you can get a better export overall at the same file size with jpg because you can go higher in the resolution.
But in any case, you will never get the same quality of an image as you get in CC3+. An image consists of a fixed set with pixels, and quality will always decrease as you zoom in. To a certain degree, that is true in CC3+ too, but CC3+ keeps a set of 4 images around for each fill and symbol, and shows you a better version as you zoom in, something you cannot get in an image format.
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Community Atlas - River Watch - Abhannfair Caves, 13
Your maps are now in the atlas. Thanks for the contribution Jim.
But for the future, can I ask you to be a bit more inventive with the map names. I am pretty sure the people who lives there do have names for their areas, and especially just incrementing a number really looks weird in an atlas when going between areas of different scales. People love to put names on places, I would very much like to see the regional maps named for a more interesting atlas. Be creative, that's what the people who live there is, they just pick a nice name, doesn't have to be based on the name of other things in the area. I am sure people prefer to live in the place named Grayline Hills rather than River Watch Environs 02. The map name will show up as the name of the entire area it depicts in the atlas, which is why this name is important, and not just locations inside that area that appears on the map.
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vintyri Collection
If you followed my instructions above for finding the path, all you need to do is to move them so they match that path. I am guessing you just have an extra folder or missing one.
As an alternative, you can also extract the source zip again according to the instructions in the installation guide. Each of the four sets from vintiry comes with a rather detailed one.
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Wishlist for CC4
Well, there can never be enough tutorials, but it is described in the Manual, which is a tutorial for the program. I know some people prefer videos instead of written word (that still boggles my mind, really), but videos do take time and effort to make (and are also way more difficult to keep up to date compared to written text). I do make video tutorials, but it is difficult to get to everything.







