2015-02-10 Gridmapper

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*Gridmapper*

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Gridmapper

Gridmapper is my take on Daniel R. Collins' original GridMapper 1.0.

Gridmapper

Daniel R. Collins' original GridMapper 1.0

My Gridmapper does the following:

the output is scalable vector graphics (SVG)
it’s free software (the SVG file contains all the Javascript necessary – just “Save as...”)
it’s portable (no Flash required, no Windows required)

Stuff that I’d still like to add:

gates (double width doors) ✓
secret doors ✓
concealed doors ✓
save as a local file, keeping all the changes ✓
correctly initialized when loading an existing file ✓
undo ✓
redo ✓
reset
labels or at least numbers ✓
correctly initialized when the URL contains some sort of encoded dungeon ✓
export as PNG ✓
Alternatives*: I recently saw a link to ANAmap. The interface is very similar, but the map itself looks much better. And it has more options. But it requires Flash and it isn’t Free Software.

ANAmap

#RPG #Gridmapper

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Awesome! I’m going to get a lot of use out of that. Thanks. 😃

What it really needs feature-wise is dungeon walls. Right now it can’t do two rooms beside each other or rooms within rooms so it can’t do maps like the Hero Quest map or super dense dungeons like those photos kicking around of Gygax running Castle Greyhawk.

It’s also on the small side. It could stand to have more squares. This is for “micro dungeons”.

But, and this might just be my browser because it’s pretty out of date, but I was able to draw squares down below the grey area! The grey mapping area has 20 rows, I was able to draw in the 10 rows below that. That helps with my “too small” problem but I assume it’s a bug! 😄

– guest 2015-02-10 19:12 UTC

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Haha, right! Thanks for reporting the bug!

I guess what would be best is if you could just add new rows and columns... Pretty soon people will wonder about adding rows “right here” and columns “right here”... Yikes! For the moment, you can “Save as...” and edit the SVG file using a text editor. Find this section:

var Map = { width: 30, // how many columns
            height: 20, // how many rows

Adapt to taste! 😄

I’ll think about the walls. Interesting idea.

– Alex Schroeder 2015-02-10 21:08 UTC

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Secret doors implemented.

– Alex Schroeder 2015-02-10 21:50 UTC

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Gates implemented.

– Alex Schroeder 2015-02-10 21:55 UTC

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Concealed doors implemented. And rotating the C by 180° doesn’t result in a rotated C but in a translated C. Yay me! 😄

– Alex Schroeder 2015-02-10 22:17 UTC

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Hey thanks that tip about editing the height and width really did the trick! I’ve got another bug report for you though. 😄

If you place stairs then delete them, you can’t place another set of stairs at that spot.

– guest 2015-02-11 03:47 UTC

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Thanks, fixed! 😄

– Alex Schroeder 2015-02-11 07:18 UTC

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Saving implemented. Unfortunately the script doesn’t correctly initialize itself upon loading such that anything you saved will remain read-only. Must add that to the todo list.

– Alex Schroeder 2015-02-11 08:33 UTC

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Undo implemented.

– Alex Schroeder 2015-02-11 11:12 UTC

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Redo implemented.

– Alex Schroeder 2015-02-11 13:39 UTC