Recenter start of map?

[cubeblue]

I've got a map that's going to see a lot of reuse and unfortunately I guess I drew it far off from the view that loads by default. It's like, many many squares Northeast of the default "map center". Is there somewhere I can manually offset where the map loads the view by default? Maybe if I unzip the campain or map file itself and find/replace something? Longshot, I know.

[Full Bleed]

I've got a map that's going to see a lot of reuse and unfortunately I guess I drew it far off from the view that loads by default. It's like, many many squares Northeast of the default "map center". Is there somewhere I can manually offset where the map loads the view by default? Maybe if I unzip the campain or map file itself and find/replace something? Longshot, I know.

Don't know of an easy way to do that. But you could make a macro to center the map where you want using Wiki: goto(). Ctrl-F to force center your players on your new location.

However, this (and other things I've wanted to do in the past) is a good use case for having an onSelectMap event.

[wolph42]

in the BoT i've created some functions for that. you need to use a macro to switch maps, but it centres on a 'centre on me' token when loaded (for all clients).

[aliasmask]

Was your map drawn using the drawing tools or are they a culmination of several objects and backgrounds from images?

[cubeblue]

Drawing tools plus a lot of placed objects.

[aliasmask]

The objects are easy, the drawings, not so much. I think you can go in to the XML file and put in new coordinates for the drawings but each point would need to be offset by the same amount both in the x and y direction. Something like that is better handled with some programming code.

[Jagged]

But you could make a macro to center the map where you want using Wiki: goto().

You could also use Wiki: setViewArea() if you are running in 1.4

[Full Bleed]

You could also use Wiki: setViewArea() if you are running in 1.4

Cool. Would still be much cooler if there was an onSelectMap event where people could use Wiki: getCurrentMapName() to trigger map specific actions when players (or GM's) switched to them.

[aliasmask]

What you could also do it add a token to the initiative, put it on the object layer and give ownership to everyone. Then players can double click it and go to that position. You can do this for several points around town.