How about a interactive world map with "Push-pins" marking the sites of the various Pathfinder modules and adventures. Something that you could run your mouse over and it would "highlight" Bloodcove or Clydwell Keep and annotate D3 or whatever so you could tell what adventure/module takes place there. Perhaps for something like River of Darkness, the "Highlight" would pull up the adventure route map with the name of the module and the level range.
This would really make it nice for DMs who have no idea where the Worldwound is.
It would also make it easier to see where the adventure locals are so as to be able to better link adventures to a rational geographic flow.
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How about a interactive world map with "Push-pins" marking the sites of the various Pathfinder modules and adventures. Something that you could run your mouse over and it would "highlight" Bloodcove or Clydwell Keep and annotate D3 or whatever so you could tell what adventure/module takes place there. Perhaps for something like River of Darkness, the "Highlight" would pull up the adventure route map with the name of the module and the level range.
This would really make it nice for DMs who have no idea where the Worldwound is.
It would also make it easier to see where the adventure locals are so as to be able to better link adventures to a rational geographic flow.
ASEO out
This is a great idea. If it doesn't show up here, once the real Golarion map comes out along with the Gazetteer, I might work on making one on the pathfinder wiki.
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Arthfell Forest is on the map. It even gets mentioned in Guide to Darkmoon Vale.Some of the more decent adventures don't take place anywhere though.Which? I think all of them have been placed somewhere in Golarion. Maybe not Into the Haunted Forest...
I stand corrected. If I had access to the pdf of the gazetteer, I'd not make these mistakes.
You HAVE it? Mine is pending.
Actually, shouldn't be difficult to do. I have a game that I've been slacking off/working on that does the same type of thing.
Create an array for each of the pins, assign an X and Y location to the pins and have an OnClick or OnMouseover event that populates a DIV tag with the info.
Basically, something like this in regards to the XY coords.
Actually, shouldn't be difficult to do. I have a game that I've been slacking off/working on that does the same type of thing.
Create an array for each of the pins, assign an X and Y location to the pins and have an OnClick or OnMouseover event that populates a DIV tag with the info.
Basically, something like this in regards to the XY coords.
Rough draft, but something like this
I can streamline it a bit and actually make it dynamic, but the hard part is knowing what references are where.
If anyone's interested in getting a list of stuff together, I can do the page piece.
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I was actually looking into testing out some code I was looking at and this would be a good test.
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I can streamline it a bit and actually make it dynamic, but the hard part is knowing what references are where.
If anyone's interested in getting a list of stuff together, I can do the page piece.
Looking for:
Location
Publication
Page Number - optionalI was actually looking into testing out some code I was looking at and this would be a good test.
I'll work on a list this week
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I can streamline it a bit and actually make it dynamic, but the hard part is knowing what references are where.
If anyone's interested in getting a list of stuff together, I can do the page piece.
Looking for:
Location
Publication
Page Number - optionalI was actually looking into testing out some code I was looking at and this would be a good test.
This is all available within the PathfinderWiki. If interested in working on this, please join us in the associated messageboard (accessible from the main page) and those of us working on the wiki can help get you the info you need and work to integrate your project into the site.
Looks good so far!
That is what I was thinking of. Only to have the info pop-up as you run the mouse ver the push-pins.
ASEO out
That is what I was thinking of. Only to have the info pop-up as you run the mouse ver the push-pins.
ASEO out
Well, I didn't want to give away all my tricks ; )
Man, I wish someone would have done this with Forgotten Realms. It was a pain trying to keep track of what happened where on the map. (This is an awesome idea!)
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Did this ever happen? Because it's an awesome idea.
I made an image map of Golarion with links from each country to the nation's respective entry on the wiki, but it's not implemented on the site yet as we need a system upgrade. As of now, there is nothing linking specific adventures to locations, though this is of a high priority to me once we get the infrastructure on the site to handle it.
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Some of the more decent adventures don't take place anywhere though.Which? I think all of them have been placed somewhere in Golarion. Maybe not Into the Haunted Forest...
Gosh this thread continued since I last looked at it and I forget which one it was I was thinking about... something with a valley if I remember right. Talking place in a very vague non-descriptive valley and mountains. I want to say it was J3.
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Gosh this thread continued since I last looked at it and I forget which one it was I was thinking about... something with a valley if I remember right. Talking place in a very vague non-descriptive valley and mountains. I want to say it was J3.Some of the more decent adventures don't take place anywhere though.Which? I think all of them have been placed somewhere in Golarion. Maybe not Into the Haunted Forest...
Crucible of Chaos is wherever you want it (I'm putting it in the Wyvern Mountains as a side-quest), I think Guardians of Dragonfall is the same way? I'm not running that one at all so I don't know.
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Crucible of Chaos is wherever you want it (I'm putting it in the Wyvern Mountains as a side-quest), I think Guardians of Dragonfall is the same way? I'm not running that one at all so I don't know.Gosh this thread continued since I last looked at it and I forget which one it was I was thinking about... something with a valley if I remember right. Talking place in a very vague non-descriptive valley and mountains. I want to say it was J3.Some of the more decent adventures don't take place anywhere though.Which? I think all of them have been placed somewhere in Golarion. Maybe not Into the Haunted Forest...
CoC can be put anywhere but it is stated on the back cover text that it takes place in the Mwangi Expanse. Originally it was touted here on the boards as being in the Realm of the Mammoth Lords, but that was corrected. As for GoD, it begins in Augustana, in Andoran, and then moves to Dragonfall, the location of which has not been revealed. I'd actually like to know where it is, as there's nothing stopping a party from turning around upon arrival and NOT going into the dragon graveyard. Eventually, they'd have to get some idea of where they were, and I pity the DM who has to make that up on the fly.
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Crucible of Chaos is wherever you want it (I'm putting it in the Wyvern Mountains as a side-quest), I think Guardians of Dragonfall is the same way? I'm not running that one at all so I don't know.
Yes I think that might indeed have been it, CoC. Haven't read the back, if it does indeed say where it takes place.. awesome. :)
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For CoC I figured either way south in the Mwangi Expanse like one of those valleys in the Bandu Hills, so Bloodcove (from W2) could be a base of operations, or the Barrier Wall in the northern part of the expanse where Osirion could be a base of operations.
There is reference in the PfCG about the Ruins of Kho, another Shory ruin, in the northeastern corner of the expanse.
For GoD I'd probably put it in the World's End Mountains or once again Barrier Wall (this place seems hard to access)
Not sure if this has been mentioned, Goodman games has a good example.
EDIT: Just noticed the map on the wiki, looks like you already have the right idea! Kudos.
Best.
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Not sure if this has been mentioned, Goodman games has a good example.
EDIT: Just noticed the map on the wiki, looks like you already have the right idea! Kudos.
Best.
The imagemap we have up on the site will link to the articles on the nations once we get the version of mediawiki upgraded, but one that will link to individual adventures is probably still a ways off. I simply don't know how to code something like that, with popup windows and all. Someday.
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The imagemap we have up on the site will link to the articles on the nations once we get the version of mediawiki upgraded, but one that will link to individual adventures is probably still a ways off. I simply don't know how to code something like that, with popup windows and all. Someday.
I'll play with some code i have from my senior project. Does the wiki allow the use of java?
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*nods*
Popups are just simple java code. Just add a onClick to the <area> code to execute the java popup. Any free javascript site should have some could you can use, will likely use a regular picture or link, you just use the same java code in the onClick. :)
Currently, I don't believe the wiki does java. I had to learn to reformat the normal java/html code for imagemaps to work for the map into the language of the wikipeople. And then we discovered that the application needed wasn't going to run on the version of mediawiki we have installed. It's still a work in progress, but anyone with coding knowledge or wiki experience is more than welcome to come and assist us!
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Oh doing the map is sooo simple, no java required.
Basic none java version
<IMG SRC="PUSH-PIN-MAP.JPG" border=0 USEMAP="#map1234">
Ok, so what this does is the IMG is the regular img code, but it tells web browsers there's imbedded links. USEMAP tells it to use map1234.
You can put this code anywhere after the IMG tag...
<MAP name="map1234">
<AREA shape="rect" coords="12,49,123,58" href="sandpoint.html">
<AREA shape="rect" coords="12,59,123,68" href="mosswood.html">
<AREA shape="rect" coords="12,69,123,78" href="korvosa.html">
</MAP>
Now, the RECT tells it you want to make a rectangle shaped link. There are other shapes you can use but a rectangle or square (both generated by this code) is probably the easiest.
COORDS= is probably the only complicated part. Depends on what Image Editing software you have. If you have Adobe Photoshop, then you just need to pick a point to start where the clickable area begins. Then you pick the OPPOSITE point for the clickable are begins.
Z00000
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If this were a picture, the two Zs are what I'm talking about.
So basically in photoshop you need the X and Y coordinates for both Zs.
Bring up the INFO palette (should be in the window menu in photoshop.)
<AREA shape="rect" coords="12,49,123,58" href="sandpoint.html">
12,49 is the X,Y coordinate of the top left Z and 123, 58 is the X,Y coordinate of the second.
As a quick example I'll use http://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderChronicles/GolarionMap.jpg this as an example.
If you wanted to make Magnimar name only clickable, you'd probably go with points.. 3361,5250,3861,5431.
Make a quick .html file in word pad with img code and the map and then just open it in your web browser from your harddrive and play around with random coordinates to create boxes until you get the hang of it.
To expand upon SirUrza's example, and to make it compatible with MediaWiki, add the "<nowiki></nowiki>" tags around the code so it won't be run through the wiki markup parser. Also, if you add a "title" attribute to the area tags, you'll get a small popup with text. Example:
<AREA shape="rect" coords="12,49,123,58" title="Sandpoint" href="sandpoint.html">
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To expand upon SirUrza's example, and to make it compatible with MediaWiki, add the "<nowiki></nowiki>" tags around the code so it won't be run through the wiki markup parser. Also, if you add a "title" attribute to the area tags, you'll get a small popup with text. Example:
<AREA shape="rect" coords="12,49,123,58" title="Sandpoint" href="sandpoint.html">
So if I already have the Golarion mapped for the nations, will it conflict at all to then lay an additional set of coordinates for cities or prominent locations over the top? Which location would it default to when someone clicked on Sandpoint? Sandpoint, or Varisia?
I am using an image-mapping program that makes all that easier. The part we're trying to do now is have a small pop-up window show up on specific locations that indicate what adventures take place there, without having to actually click and leave the world map.