Suggestion: Aligning to Grid

Greetings... Aligning a map to the grid always is a little tricky for me. First I had to realize that the Top-Left corner of the map image should be sized up with the grid you might be using on your image. So, that was quickly taken care of by trimming the edges of my image down. However, when aligning to the grid, it would be nice if the little yellow box would draw a diagonal red line, when the X & Y (width and height) of the box is perfectly square. Or/and perhaps the box tells you how big it is in pixels while you are drawing it. Considering that most drawings/maps will be JPGs, perhaps when the yellow drawing box is 216 by 216px (72x3) it would draw a red X from corner to corner, as a default. Thus allowing us to quickly align to a grid of 72x72 pixels. This will allow people when aligning to grids know exactly that they are drawing a perfect square and not a rectangle a couple of pixels off here or there.

Considering that most drawings/maps will be JPGs, perhaps when the yellow drawing box is 216 by 216px (72x3) it would draw a red X from corner to corner, as a default. Thus allowing us to quickly align to a grid of 72x72 pixels. I don't really understand what you are aiming for. Maps are not frequently squares. Maybe are you speaking about tiles? But then, aligning a 3X3 squares tile on the grid is not really difficult, it is a quite small tile and it shall snap to the Roll20 grid, which is not 72px squares but 70px. And the format (jpg or wathever) don't seem to play a role. I am a little confused

Considering that most drawings/maps will be JPGs, perhaps when the yellow drawing box is 216 by 216px (72x3) it would draw a red X from corner to corner, as a default. Thus allowing us to quickly align to a grid of 72x72 pixels. I don't really understand what you are aiming for. Maps are not frequently squares. Maybe are you speaking about tiles? But then, aligning a 3X3 squares tile on the grid is not really difficult, it is a quite small tile and it shall snap to the Roll20 grid, which is not 72px squares but 70px. And the format (jpg or wathever) don't seem to play a role. I am a little confused I find the align tool unreliable at best. many times when use it its only accurate for a small area of the map, the further away from where I line stuff up the worse it gets, and i find I have to stretch it just a little this way or that way, I can spend hours trying to align something to grid even with the tool and still can't make it line up properly everywhere on the map

I can understand the problems using the align tool (I avoid it by simply resizing my maps at 70px per square and no border, so it snaps perfectly in one second), what I do not understand is what Imagicka is explaining, I suppose I get it wrong.

Wardonis, I dont bother trying to get each section of the map to align. I align the majority then I use alt to move the map so that the grid aligns in the section I want it to. During gameplay I can do this when the lines get to be too far apart. Ultimately, I think this is more of a problem with the maps than with Roll20. Not all maps are precision. Note: One trick I use is to use a 500x500 or so base map size, then I expand the map itself to fill that size. It makes the align to grid more accurate to work with 3x3 squares that are that big. - Gauss

Assuming that the maps you are using are accurate, and the grid on these maps is perfectly square, which they should be. You can take the map and trim the edges to be exact, thus eliminating any partial squares. After you have that done, just count the grid pattern i.e. 24X36 squares, match the Roll20 Page Grid to 24X36 and import your map, stretch it out to the edges of the page and it will be aligned. Or do what I do, and just turn off the Snap to Grid and use the map like would in a real life game and move your tokens as you would minis, this works surprisingly well, although the measuring tool will not always be 100% accurate. `

I'll generally use the align tool and 3/4 end up having to drag the image itself veritcally and horizontally till the tiles match. There have been only a few maps this process doesn't work and it severely helps when it doesn't have a border and the edges start with a grid square.

If anyone has found a way to easy align maps from this site... <a href="http://donjon.bin.sh/d20/dungeon/" rel="nofollow">http://donjon.bin.sh/d20/dungeon/</a> ...I'd be eternally grateful. The Auto-Align gets it close, but no matter how much adjustment I make it never seems to work. I think I used math once to figure it out, but I can't remember how.

I've posted a video here. I don't have annotations up yet, but you can at least get a preview. <a href="http://youtu.be/xlS7cZ0vxIA" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/xlS7cZ0vxIA</a> @Octopusapult I used the website you linked to get the map so it would definitely be of interest to you. Edit: There's now annotations. Let me know if something wasn't clear enough.

Did you read my Post? That works and is as easy as it gets.