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FlowScape

Let Nature Flow from your Brush · By PixelForest

Grid sizing

A topic by JasonKDarby created Feb 12, 2019 Views: 1,078 Replies: 5
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Awesome program!  I have a battle map use case where my TV is nicely sized for a 21x38 square grid.  I can fill it vertically but not horizontally.  I realize this is not as simple as increasing the number of grid spaces available (it maxes at 25 currently) due to the ortho camera being in the same place.  There's also the issue that the maps themselves are squares but I can get around that by zooming to subsets of it.  I can take gridless ortho videos and add custom grids at the moment but I use the grid in Flowscape for placing things like trees and rocks in specific places for gameplay aspects.

I guess my hope is that given my scenario and concerns a solution is there somewhere.  Again, Flowscape is fantastic and particularly great for making battle maps.  Thanks!

Developer

i will increase the grid amounts, for resizing, could you take it into photoshop or gimp to crop it?

I think that can work, my only concern with that is retaining the image resolution.  If it outputs at 4k and I have to crop it down to get the right shape it won't be 4k anymore but it would be enough probably.  Also, I'm making videos more than images (see https://www.reddit.com/r/FlowScape/comments/aq42un/swamp_battle_map/ !), which I think is practically the same issue.

Developer

What if i added a zoom function on the map editor so you can place it closer?

Yeah, I think that (grid size increase and ortho zoom) would resolve it.  In that case some way to save camera position would be nice.


Thanks for considering this!

Yes, please zoom