Inhabitants of the world. Any need for illustrations?

[Redrobes]

Yea. I've been a traditional table-top player since mid-80's and I guess since I have a regular group, there's never been a need to get into virtual gaming in the net.

You would find that with your skills with the pen tablet that your game would be much improved even when playing face to face around the table if you had a display to show your players. You avoid endless amounts of "So where am I again ?" and "Can I see around the corner from where I am ?" and the eternal "But I thought my character was well away from those explosive runes...".

Heres a few seconds of movie for you - just about 5Mb worth to get the flavour of it.

It shows how you can play with your token and link it to a piccy of him and web sites or other docs. No need to dig out the books or wonder where you put that pic / handout etc.

Given that you do about 1/3 of the work in 3D app anyway you have the top down view nearly done. The top down token for VTTs are a boon. You can draw the shield top down too and then attach it to the character token too. Obviously that goes as well for weapons, hats and any number of other things that are optional extras for the character.

I should have put these into the move but I have another which shows that better.

If you have any trouble viewing the movies then try VLC though media player should work just fine.

[jfrazierjr]

You would find that with your skills with the pen tablet that your game would be much improved even when playing face to face around the table if you had a display to show your players. You avoid endless amounts of "So where am I again ?" and "Can I see around the corner from where I am ?" and the eternal "But I thought my character was well away from those explosive runes...".

Heres a few seconds of movie for you - just about 5Mb worth to get the flavour of it.

Sorry this is a OT, but whats a good "free" conversion program from AVI to some type of easily viewable video format, specifically one that reduces the size quite a bit from the original AVI? I have some videos I want to post to the web, but they are AVI's and thus huge and I don't ahve the much space to post the original AVI files. Likewise, I want to do a few short tutorials in CamStudio and shrink the file sizes some.

[RPMiller]

Heres a few seconds of movie for you - just about 5Mb worth to get the flavour of it.

I should have put these into the move but I have another which shows that better.

If you have any trouble viewing the movies then try VLC though media player should work just fine.

I couldn't view the first video, but the second worked great. So can you change out what they are carrying/wearing in real time or do you need to save it as a separate file first?

[Redrobes]

I clicked on the link with a different PC and it tried to open it with irfanview which didnt play it. If I save the link to disk and then use open with... and select vlc then it was fine. Not sure what else I can do. I thought they were exactly the same format. I always use XviD but something must be different I guess.

As for the token, if you select the edit so that you can move it about with the circle handles which is what your seeing in both movies. You can start to drag, press E for edit and then it takes you to that item where you can take his sword off or put a shield on etc. Then when done you just press backspace to get back to the original map and it will have the new equipment. You can create a clone of it and have two copies with different equip as well if you like but thats not the fastest way to do it. So I would say yes its dynamic but you have to change edit level down by one first which is good because you want to group all the stuff into one token and only have one edit handle for the character and all his equipment all together.

[RobA]

(Threadjack)

I thought they were exactly the same format. I always use XviD but something must be different I guess.

G-Spot disagrees:


I hate codec hell....

-Rob A>

[industrygothica]

You'll have to forgive me for getting back on topic for a moment, but...

How are you with non-humanoids? I could use an orc king (or king-like, anyway) for the Bloodspires in the Witchlight Strand. I've got an idea brewing, and maybe a visual of him will help get it out of my head and into the wiki.

And it goes without saying that anything else in the Witchlight Strand (or anywhere else in this project, I'm sure) are fair game for your talents.


-IG