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Please, please, please for all things good and holy in the multiverse, can we stop using Flip Tiles with partially overlapped squares? Especially at a time when nearly all gaming is being done online, I don't understand why we are continuing to see maps with a roughly 1/5th square at the edge of where two tiles butt together. It makes it impossible to use these images for most online mapping tools. So you either have to make a really ugly alignment within the snap grid system, use a completely different map, or do something custom that creates A LOT more work for the GM. This really should not be an issue for professional graphic artists.
To be honest, Bob, it also matters for in person games, as they are showing the part that is cut away on the physical tiles. So, you cannot actually make the maps as shown, not that you would want to!
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Yeah they're using the full bleed original artwork that would have been sent to the printers for the tiles. They really should prepare a set of properly cropped images to use when assembling them in scenarios.
Jack Brown wrote: it also matters for in person games I can see that. Since I have the Flip Tiles and tend to either use those or for larger maps where the loose tiles would be an inconvenience, I print the tiles from PDF, cut them out and tape them together. So, I never really got on board this complaint until I started getting involved in roll20. Selfish approach I know, but I admit I've gotten a little more selfish since retiring as RVC.
Given the big uptick in online gaming, would it be a strange idea to just start adding a page to scenarios with the whole glued-together image as one single image? We already have scenarios reserve a page for full-page flipmats and custom maps in the back, why not for flip tiles?
I have just finished preparing Part 1 of the Perennial Crown to run online and have been heartily swearing about the use of flip tiles in the scenario.
Then I got to the end and found a set of cleaned up, mostly cropped images. They still had the annoying little fraction of the square and I still had to copy and paste them one image at a time but it was better than what was presented in the body of the scenario.
I still wish we could be provided with one, proper, aligned image to use. Cutting and pasting 15 different bits the cropping out the partial squares, importing them individually into roll20 and then playing jigsaw is very tedious.
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For those who have access to the Flip-Tiles PDFs (such as Maps subscribers), I find it easier to copy the images from the Flip-Tiles PDFs instead of snipping scenario PDFs. You still have to import the pieces individually and play jigsaw puzzle.
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The alignment of the flip tiles is currently Chaotic Neutral. I'll see myself out.
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Gary D Norton wrote: For those who have access to the Flip-Tiles PDFs (such as Maps subscribers), I find it easier to copy the images from the Flip-Tiles PDFs instead of snipping scenario PDFs. You still have to import the pieces individually and play jigsaw puzzle. This is what I do.
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