Maptool Screencasts (Demos and Tutorials)
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Maptool Screencasts (Demos and Tutorials)
Please feel free to check out the following screencasts. They show you some of the cool features of Maptool 1.2. What else can I say - your games will never be the same again!
General Overview
Lighting Effects
Interact With Objects
Using Chat
Any Genre
Massive Maps
Make Quick Maps
Using macros to move the map to a location
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Zooming capabilities of Maptol 1.3
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This might help some of you in some manner. It was for a specific question about making a dual reality "dream map" but might prove valuable to some of you so I figured I would keep it. Could be used for warping into another plane or something. Basically I loaded up a map and then stamped down the other map and I switch between them both by making everything visible/not visible.
http://www.rptools.net/dorpond/demos/Dream/Dream.html
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http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?t=2302
There is also a cool iPod file you can download in those links so you can show them to your friends!
Please note: If the screencast stops, hit the stop button. Wait until it loads completely and when it does, hit play again. Also, none of these files have sound.
Have fun!
General Overview
Lighting Effects
Interact With Objects
Using Chat
Any Genre
Massive Maps
Make Quick Maps
Using macros to move the map to a location
*** NEWLY ADDED ***
Zooming capabilities of Maptol 1.3
*****
This might help some of you in some manner. It was for a specific question about making a dual reality "dream map" but might prove valuable to some of you so I figured I would keep it. Could be used for warping into another plane or something. Basically I loaded up a map and then stamped down the other map and I switch between them both by making everything visible/not visible.
http://www.rptools.net/dorpond/demos/Dream/Dream.html
*****
(Link to invisible image file)
http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php?t=2302
There is also a cool iPod file you can download in those links so you can show them to your friends!
Please note: If the screencast stops, hit the stop button. Wait until it loads completely and when it does, hit play again. Also, none of these files have sound.
Have fun!
Last edited by dorpond on Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:09 pm, edited 8 times in total.
- dLANbandit
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These are awesome vids..
This really shows off the product. I love them. I've passed along to my p&p only friends to hopefully convince them of its major potential...
Hot darn
You need to dosome tutatorials with that, especialy with the token macrod, speech, and other stuff.
Get's me pumed up, and great looking maps too.
Mikey
Get's me pumed up, and great looking maps too.
Mikey
Boy, I can't remember the specific link; try here (8 pages)?Glock-9mm wrote:Dorpond, Could you give me a copy of your trees that u used in the tutoral please?
Regards
Glock-9mm
http://www.dundjinni.com/forums/forum_p ... PN=1&TPN=1
Don't forget I have two stickys here also pointing to a lot of fantastic artwork:
http://forums.rptools.net/viewforum.php?f=10
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I believe it's a manual process. Probably deleting the vbl line on top of the door. We plan to make it possible to attach vbl to tokens/stamps so that it will be automaticchaoz wrote: How do you realize the vision effect when you open a door?
I believe it's token->Visible to players, which doesn't help the GM much. There's a tracker to make stamps have an expand/collapse button on them in the GM view that will make this easier to dochaoz wrote: How do you realize the switch between the roof and the interior of a building?
Dreaming of a 1.3 release
Hey Greytale! Welcome to the Boards! Nice to see you again!greytale wrote:I have to say those are some pretty cool looking demos Dorpond.
Great work. I will have to pop in here more often.
Yeah, stay a while and listen.. (Sorry, Diablo 2 lingo comes out of me from time to time. )
Is this your first experience with Maptool? You are in for a ride!
Man, sorry about that - I must have totally missed this oneDagda wrote:Bump!chaoz wrote:They are definitely excellent!
I have two newbie questions (in demo 1):
How do you realize the vision effect when you open a door?
How do you realize the switch between the roof and the interior of a building?
Thanks!
Yeah, I just manually remove the VBL (topology) layer that covers the door. Then I swing the door open and then reveal vision. Manual for now but gets the point across
As far as the roof trick, I have both layers on the GM side that are stamped on top of each other. The roof is on top of the inside. Then I click on the roof and make it Not Visible To Players. While the Players can now see the inside, the GM still cannot - to get around this, I just switch to Player View by hitting Control+Shift+P and play like that until they leave the building - then I switch back and make the foor visible again when the players leave the building. Manual but gets the job done.
As Trevor stated, expect these things to only get better in time - more automated for sure!