Wondering what happend to all the free art assests (maps specifically).

I used to be able to to put in a one or two word search string and -bam- tiles or maps aplenty would show up.  Now ALL I am getting is freakin' "premium assets"... Have we gone to the pay-to-play model here, or have all the free assest sites just cut Roll 20 out of the loop?  Getting extremely angry and frustrated with this.  

As the Devs said over here : After doing some digging, this is what's the cause of this issue: Back in the early days of Roll20, Google's search engine API was free and readily available to be used. This was utilized for our web search for the Art Library. At the time, Google had claimed that this would be a freely available asset for a long time. As you can probably guess where this story is going, they decided later to lock their API behind a very significant price tag. Nowadays, when someone runs searches in the art library, it's using search results that we scraped back when we still had the API available. Those search results are tied to the keywords that were searched with at the time. This list of compiled searches are nearly four years old now, and limited to the keywords that were utilized by a fraction of the userbase that we have now. Ideally, we would find another search engine API to utilize, but so far we haven't found one that is financially feasible to license. When things change it will be announced, but for now we're stuck with what we have.

Note, you can still drag any image you already have from your computer onto the VTT, or search for images on a search image and bring them into the site.  I know that's not as nice as searching in the VTT directly, but it still allows you to bring any free content you like into the game.

All of the Free Assets that were part of Roll20 are still there. What The Aaron posted first applies to "From The Web" results of a search (which are also free). To access the Free Assets provided by Roll20, in the new Library interface: In-game go to your Art Library tab , Click on Premium Assets sub-tab , Look under the Free Assets subfolder here. There are dozens of folders organized with maps, tiles, and tokens, all free to use in games. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Art_Library" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Art_Library</a>

Gold said: All of the Free Assets that were part of Roll20 are still there. What The Aaron posted first applies to "From The Web" results of a search (which are also free). To access the Free Assets provided by Roll20, in the new Library interface: In-game go to your Art Library tab , Click on Premium Assets sub-tab , Look under the Free Assets subfolder here. There are dozens of folders organized with maps, tiles, and tokens, all free to use in games. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Art_Library" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Art_Library</a> Cool...merci beaucoup.