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Frost
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Here's a suggestion I would like to see:
A way to "lasso" any given wilderness/outdoor area and make it a room. The preferred way would be without having to make the area a distict part of the map using different textures to "cordon-off" that area.
Would it be possible to use the walls in Wild to make a room, then remove those walls and keep the room with all the room info in place? Going to have to try that if my multi-map_project/mega-adventure/mini-campaign idea is to work.
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A quick and dirty solution is to make a transparent wall. I section off the part I want isolated then the wall disapears.
Of course you need to remember where you put the wall, but some clicking around will show it. And you can't really use the raised walls or shadows because of the effects, but then I tend not to use these features in the woods anyways.
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Not a bad idea, Frost. I'll add it to our list of feature requests from users for consideration.
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Frost, I'm not sure what it is you are trying to accomplish. Is it your intent to mark an area with a Room Key, for use with adventure text output? If so you can do that now with the marquee tool (try freehand) and the paint bucket (with the particular room key selected). Or did I misunderstand your question?
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Frost
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Ok, JT, here's the thing:
You have a Wilderness map (or a mostly WIlderness map), but you want to have some encounters on it. Especially if you want more than one. What I would like is the ability to take an area of said Wilderness map and assign it a Room Key and Stats, where the only part considered for this encounter are the things contained within this area.
What I was considering is something along the lines of a marquee tool, which I called a "lasso" above. What it would do would be select any area on the map and be able to make it a "room." It would have to be able to be shaped and would not require the "room" area to appear too different from the rest of the map. This way I could present my players with an area map and, as they stumbled along through that area, they might stumble on the encounter I have in my GM's version of the same map -- or the encounter could find them. What I would need is to have "room" areas on this Wilderness map that could keep 2 or more encounter areas seperate, but hold all the creatures and their stats within them.
Does any of that make any sense?
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I'm pretty sure that you're asking for a feature that's already in the program.
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Do you mean like this?:
Edited by slashdevnull on 10/04/2004 at 8:47pm
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Okay. Maybe that is what I want. Now, how d'ya do that? I am did not find anything in the manual along these lines, so any help would be appreciated.
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I did this the way J.T. mentioned above. I simply chose Fantasy/Tokens/Room Keys in the Map Items dialog, then selected an area using the Freehand Marquee Select tool. Making sure that I had the right room number selected, I clicked the Paint Bucket, then used it to fill in the area I had seelcted. Then, just increment your Room Key number, select a new area with the marquee tool, and fill that.
I think that maybe the confusion with the use of the Room Keys for doing area fills is that most people do room fills/definitions by filling a room's floor rather than filling a marquee-selected area.
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Additional: I think you can also select an area with the Pencil tool, as long as you have Fantasy/Tokens/Room Keys selected in the Map Items dialog. I haven't tested this, though. It might be easier to use the Pencil with a big brush size (4' or 5') and just draw over the area you want to be defined as a certain "room".
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