Hello all. Im in the process of setting up this:
http://www.d20srd.org/extras/tabletop_projection/
Not being a graphic designer - I have questions. Any help would be SUPER! Thanks in advance!
Questions:
1) DM only info projected onto tabletop. How to deal with this? I understand that PDF's can have "layers" Does anyone know if the PDF's purchased from this site are layered in such as way as to allow removal of text / DM info?
2) If answer to #1 = no. What is the best way to deal with this? I have access to photoshop and one of the new players I have recently met is a student of Graphic Design, so we can probably get kinda sorta technical here.
3) Best way to create a mask layer for the fog of war effect?
This will be for Haunting of Harrowstone btw.
oh and if anyone cares to explain how to make the cool little linky things instead of a big ole URL to copy paste, I'm all ears. :-)
OK - I've been clicking around some here. It appears that the PDF's generated by Paizo are "layered" - the discussion seems to revolve around the best way to make this work, but I'd still like some reassurance this is still the case (info from old posts) before I go and buy the PDF of a book I already own....
Fog of war - looks like maptools is kinda the winner here on this subject.
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This is a big topic, and there are a lot of various posts out there on this topic, so I will keep my answers short.
how to make the cool little linky things instead of a big ole URL to copy paste
If you click on the "BBCode tags you can use" Show button beneath the post editing pane, there is an example of how to put in a url.
It appears that the PDF's generated by Paizo are "layered" - the discussion seems to revolve around the best way to make this work, but I'd still like some reassurance this is still the case (info from old posts) before I go and buy the PDF of a book I already own
Only the Jade Regent pdfs have the neat-o dynamic layering functionality (yay, Chris!). Everything prior to that does not. When using a digital projector setup, with, say, Maptools, you'll have to export the images from the pdf file (using Acrobat or the free SomePDF Image Export program). Once exported, all of the layers are stripped out, and you only have the map image itself - no secret doors, no room numbers, etc. You're better off using Maptools layers functionality for this, anyways, for which there are numerous tutorials over at RP Tools tutorials.
Thanks Sozin! I have been using GIMP photo editing software (free) and just getting into the pixels to overwrite the room numbers, S doors and such. (I'm getting pretty good!) But ultimately this is a fair amount of work, so I will look into the Maptools solution. I'll look at the tutorials when I have more time, hopefully from there I can figure out the method of stripping out the layers.
Thanks Again!