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[PF1e] Imported maps not sizing to grid squares

Hello, I need some help with my imported maps. I am having trouble getting the square grid to line up to the grid on the maps. Currently I am keeping the grid off, and we are using the ruler arrows to find out how far the tokens can go, but it gets annoying. I have tried making the Roll20 grid size (in pixels) match the size of the imported map, but the roll20 grid lines do not match up to the map, even if I try to resize the grid. I'm pretty sure the maps have straight lines, and square grid squares. Can anyone give me some advice to hopefully fix this? Thank you in advance.
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Kraynic
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There are several methods of aligning maps in this article.&nbsp; I always use the one at the bottom of the page.&nbsp; It is totally manual, but it hasn't failed me yet for maps that already have a grid as part of the image. <a href="https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039243994-Aligning-Maps" rel="nofollow">https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039243994-Aligning-Maps</a>
Kraynic said: There are several methods of aligning maps in this article.&nbsp; I always use the one at the bottom of the page.&nbsp; It is totally manual, but it hasn't failed me yet for maps that already have a grid as part of the image. <a href="https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039243994-Aligning-Maps" rel="nofollow">https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039243994-Aligning-Maps</a> Oh, I never found that option before! It will be handy for future maps, I hope. But, it isn't working for my current map. The left 1/4 of the map grid is lining up with the roll20 grid, but after that the roll20 grid is slowly becoming more and more off. I don't know if it's because my map is very big, or if the map generator I used is not completely square? This is the map generator I used, and I selected the Large size: <a href="https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/dungeon/" rel="nofollow">https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/dungeon/</a>
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Kraynic
Pro
Sheet Author
The Roll20 square grid is fine.&nbsp; I expect the donjon map generator is fine as well for making a consistent grid.&nbsp; I don't use the tool, but set up my maps manually.&nbsp; As I said, I use the very bottom method on that page that I linked to you.&nbsp; Unless you have altered the image in some other program and stretched part of the image/grid before uploading it to Roll20, then you either stretched the map too far, or haven't stretched it far enough for the grids to line up.
Unfortunately what happens sometimes is you cannot align maps because the image has a border that is not the same size as the grid squares. In that case you'll have to align it manually to get it to match up with the grid. Here's my checklist for manually aligning maps in Roll20: Make sure the map image is on the map layer Make sure the map image is set as a ‘drawing’ (right click on the image) Make sure the Roll20 grid is nice and visible - adjust the color to red and turn the transparency up to like 100% Use the ‘align to grid’ feature to get the size close (optional) Move the top left grid on the map image to align with the Roll20 grid Stretch the map image horizontally to the right to align the grid. You may have to repeat 5&amp;6 a couple times Stretch the map image vertically down to align to the Roll20 grid Turn the grid color back to whatever you want (light grey and more transparent, or just off if the map image has grid lines already)
Maps that are drawn for printing or a website normally have grid lines that are more than 1 pixel in size, while the Roll 20 grid is 1 pixel. I always look for gridless versions and generally just use a common door to size it for Roll 20.