Included in this download is six terrain overlays (Difficult Terrain triangle, Impassable Terrain X, Cover Tree, Concealment Cloud, Misc. Diamond) in black, white, red, green and blue. The black and white versions come in solid and 50% transparent versions, the other colors are all 50% transparent.
You can get a .zip file containing all the images here: http://www.mediafire.com/?3nv19hp324hss85
Or visit my gallery page, assuming I set it up right: http://gallery.rptools.net/v/contrib/De ... +overlays/
Or attached to this post, because I somehow missed that option when I made the original post. :-p
These are tokens you can drop onto your map for various terrain types -- all symbols are in the lower-right corner. The basic shapes I drew myself, for the tree for cover and the cloud for concealment I used public domain artwork at http://openclipart.org. If you're using a 200x200 grid, you can also 'paint' these as terrain on top of your existing terrain (I highly recommend the token method, however.)
Why multiple colors? Well, here's a few reasons:
- Some colors may not be very visible against some terrain. (Try to see a white triangle on a snowfield?)
- Alternatively, some colors might be TOO visible and clash against the overall map asthetic.
- You might want to differentiate between different variations of special terrain. For instance, you might use black triangles for regular "difficult terrain" and blue triangles for ice.. Your players might be able to try to treat the ice as normal terrain if they pass an acrobatics check (falling prone if they fail).
The aforementioned .zip file contains an ABOUT.txt file which includes information on how to match the style of these overlays if you decide to make your own. It's below, for reference.
ABOUT.txt
dewin [ thisgenericname at gmail dot com ] performed all image resizing and other transformations
required to terrain overlay artwork. Most work was done using paint.NET.
Though the individual source images are all in the public domain, I still prefer to credit individual artists when possible. Source images are credited to the following artists:
Triangle ("Difficult Terrain") - dewin
X ("Impassable Terrain") - dewin
Tree ("Cover") - Chrisdesign
Cloud ("Concealment") - Antoine
dewin: [ thisgenericname at gmail dot com ]
Chrisdesign: http://openclipart.org/user-detail/Chrisdesign
Antoine: http://openclipart.org/detail/37123/nuage-by-antoine
Adding overlays to this library:
I use paint.NET for creating the overlays. The following are constraints used to ensure consistency:
* Create a silhouette base using only transparency and black. The larger dimension of this base is exactly 50 pixels, the smaller is adapted as needed. The silhouette image fits exactly with zero pixels of white/transparent border.
* Resize the canvas to be 50x50, centering the original image whereever it makes more artistic sense.
* Resize the canvas to be 190x190, placing the original image in the lower right corner
* Resize the canvas to be 200x200, placing the original image in the upper left corner
The net effect of all of this resizing is the silhouette image is in the lower right corner, with 10 pixels of border between it and the bottom and right edges.
Then I save the following PNGs:
* (name) black 100.png - Image as it stands
* (name) black 50.png - 50% transparency (128/255)
* (name) white 100.png - Inverted
* (name) white 50.png - Inverted, 50% transparency (128/255)
Other colors are done -- always at 50% transparency -- by using the white 50% image as a reference and using the following effects:
Red - Color Filter: 0 Hue, 255 Density, 0 Highlights
Green - Color Filter, 120 Hue, 255 Density, 0 Highlights
Blue - Color Filter, 240 Hue, 255 Density, 0 Highlights