2016-04-20 How To Get Started With Text Mapper

Here’s how to get started with a random map:

1. Visit https://campaignwiki.org/text-mapper

2. Click the *Random* button

3. Click the *Submit* button

4. Use the Back button to make changes

(If you click the Random *link* then you won’t be able to get back to the text that generated it all – you’ll have to look at the page source and at the very end you’ll find the text that generated the map in a comment, just in case.)

Random

To get a feel for the icons available, do the following in another tab:

1. Visit https://campaignwiki.org/text-mapper

2. Click *Help*

3. Scroll down to the Gnomeyland section

4. Compare example data and result

https://campaignwiki.org/text-mapper

Gnomeyland

example data

result

Campaign Wiki Bonus*: If you can find a way to store your text describing the map online, then your map will be *live* – you can change the text and reload your map, and it will have changed as well. For one of my campaigns, for example, I keep the text on on a page, and I use the link to the raw text of that page to generate the actual map.

on a page

raw text

the actual map

Dropbox*: If you store your map in a public (!) text file you can edit the map and regenerate the map on demand. Here’s the text file for my current map.

my current map

I can just paste `include https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2749916/Greyheim.txt` into the Text Mapper box, or
I can visit the link https://campaignwiki.org/text-mapper?map=include+https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2749916/Greyheim.txt

https://campaignwiki.org/text-mapper?map=include+https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2749916/Greyheim.txt

Awesome! 😄

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