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Big map sketches.

Here's how i met the problem: Recently i've tried to make quite big map of dungeon composed of dwarven tunnels and caves. Dwarven tunnels are easy go, but caves started my problem. To make nice cave i needed unregullar walls, so i decided to sketch them. Not a big deal, and it went nice with tools from roll20. The problem jumped in when i ended. And here's the problem: My map consisted of realy big number of lines, and all of them were considered separate objects with all properties they should have. And that slowed all roll20 really badly. When i refreshed the page it was even worse, because during downloading the page my browser thought something went wrong and asked me several times if it should stop scripts(In which case i got only part of objects on page). I've thought about consolidating all those lines into one object, but not in a way Group option works(it connects them, but they are still separate objects). I was also thinking about making whole map somewhere else, and then to import it to roll20, but here comes problem with grids - when sketching a cave i'd need to see them. I could of course make a page with grids of proper size, and then sketch on them, but that seems to be crude solution. If u have ideas how easilly make sketched map that will work fine with grids after uploading let me know. Thanks in advance.
Roll20 is not really a graphic program, nor a map-making application. Whilst the tools can let you add or customize your work, you should work in a program more adapted for this kind of work. Photoshop or GIMP comes to mind. If you prefer working with vectors, like in Roll20, you could use Illustrator or Inkscape. Why would a sketched map be crude? You can use it as a base and then enhance it in GIMP or Photoshop. Of course, it all depend on the kind of result you want to attain. There is a big difference in style (and work) between a sketched map <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yOegHJdvHS8/T7LErEwETKI/AAAAAAAAAjs/EaY_jcvuFqs/s1600/SceneDungeon.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yOegHJdvHS8/T7LErEwETKI/AAAAAAAAAjs/EaY_jcvuFqs/s1600/SceneDungeon.jpg</a> and a color, more finished one <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XzLjG774nKY/Tzfo4NtDxnI/AAAAAAAAAbY/fQ65DGc2sa8/s1600/DontDrink2.png" rel="nofollow">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XzLjG774nKY/Tzfo4NtDxnI/AAAAAAAAAbY/fQ65DGc2sa8/s1600/DontDrink2.png</a>