Battlemap’s Hub

[last lichen]

heh

[haughty edge]

I made maps but never tried them on Hex grid xD

[haughty edge]

It is alright....

[last lichen]

i would say that is not “built for hexes” ;)

[icy lion]

Tooling around with a vertical control points map

[dull sedge]

That looks amazing

[shrewd garnet]

Just started taking over everything to TTS and looking forward to just do that :D

[icy lion]

It’s a control point map!

Control points are the crater, the two floating rocks with crystals, and the big ship

Had myself kicking my feet after putting the death’s head where it is

[viscid plover]

damn are all the players playing Barbarossas???

[icy lion]

?

[viscid plover]

Oh, I just thought I saw like 3 size 3 mechs on the first map screenshot, but I realized they might be Size 3 NPCs

[viscid plover]

Really cool map btw

[viscid plover]

Wallflower Spoilers!

If anyone's got any advice for my map for Mission 2 - Combat 4 ||Night Strike *||, I'd appreciate it! Not sure if I've ||made enough open spaces + sightlines for the Strider and Archers to take advantage of if they're coming from the north||

[amber blade]

Looks solid. Lots of good stuff like ||a size 2 hard cover in the rear for bombard to break LOS with if you have experienced players. Sight lines aren't too bad for archers/siege strider, but they'll really want to hang around flanks anyway since the whole premise is to not even contest the point. The density of cover near deploy might be a bit choking as it presents fewer areas to scatter to avoid cluster shots. Good for bombard but not good if the specter is in play, and at 5 PC count you need all the edge you can get to properly attrition them. ||

[viscid plover]

Thankyou for the considered feedback! I'll see if I can shuffle some stuff around cuz I can definitely see your point there

[haughty edge]

Wish I could find a group to do it as a player

But i'm a forever GM

[haughty edge]

Gridless

[kindred timber]

Needs a Pineapple under the sea

[haughty edge]

Omg

This is so stupid but if I have one

I could make a really funny map

[icy lion]

"The IPS-N Lancaster. A simple mech, for a simple life."

[viscid plover]

Home on the Range?

[inner portal]

They posted in Tokens too, sounds like they were interested in recreating a battle based on random lore in the book.

[shrewd garnet]

Does anyone have an industrial haven with lots of shipping containers as map?

[viscid plover]

Does it need to be inside? I did one that's a kind of snow base with a some shipping containers

Hm...less shipping containers than I remember

[timid otter]

I need some space bay maps, outside and inside. Or space hangar. Basically I want players to destroy guards before a forcefield and get into a hangar itself. Do you have any good space maps or space hangar ones?

[quaint flame]

Does it matter if the shipping containers are on trains?

[proud atlas]

what's the settings for this map to make the hexes line up with the cover in foundryvtt?

[haughty edge]

Inkarnate is great

But It lack Sci-Fi/Military assets

[loud shadow]

Fuck I'd need to check again

I do recall width is 3500 with grid size at 100px

[haughty edge]

Everyhone has advices too on how

to make so Inkarnate works with hexes?

If anyone has an assetpack for Sci-Fi, Let me know

[haughty edge]

I want to make a beach battlemap but I miss assets to give it the beach vibe

[modern ivy]

https://icelevel.itch.io/lancer-map-assets

[haughty edge]

But sadly It's out of my budget

[timid otter]

Does anyone have a map of a laboratory? My game is gonna be pretty soon and I don't think I can draw it in time.

[distant hawk]

Do you need it to be mech scale? I have a couple one is more narrative the other is mech scale

I can also recommend some paid assets from CzePeku but I understand if you don't wanna spend

[timid otter]

Mech scale

[distant hawk]

lemme go get you my map

its a bit weird as it got 'corrupted' by plants but

[timid otter]

Thanks, i'll make my own my map for next session but this one will do.

[distant hawk]

have fun!

[distant hawk]

which reminds me I haven't dropped a lot of my SOS maps here:

Lot of experiemental and odd maps in this batch ngl

[inner portal]

lol I have a whole series of maps for a ruined-secret-lab-researching-plant-monsters.

[slim schooner]

Bunch more city maps! They are a bit rushed as i did not have muuuch time to decorate them and had to make em just before the sessions lol, but hey its better than nothing at least ^^'' (Can make versions without the cover/OZ overlay if anyone needs it)

[nova pollen]

These look so cool, can I ask what sitrep(s) they were made for?

[shrewd garnet]

Sounds great tbh

[viscid plover]

Opinions/critique if anyone's up for it: is this looking too cluttered or otherwise unclear?

(It's meant to be for the Escort sitrep btw)

[haughty edge]

Do you have ennemies on the Objective Zone?

[haughty edge]

How were you able to put hexes this well? (I assume you used inkarnate too )

[viscid plover]

I mean they could get to it, definitely: were you thinking it'd be better to have the enemy deployment zone closer to the objective?

[modern ivy]

It makes perfect sense as an escort map, I think the overall read on it is clear. As far as the specific information on the map I would use more abbreviations like you did with PDZ

[viscid plover]

Yeah, I was kinda tossing up between just doing almost all of them abbreviated, and making it as clear as possible

[modern ivy]

Also, something I like to do is break things up visually by using dashed outlines for my zones to distinguish them from cover

[haughty edge]

It's maybe me but I think the map is really safe in the south of it xD

[modern ivy]

I was just looking at it yeah it might need an ingress zone down there

[haughty edge]

Depending on what NPC yhou will be using I think it's likely that your players would be really near the objective without even firing a single time

I would put one here

Or make the objective also a spawn zone

[viscid plover]

Yeah, I spose it would take a long time for enemies to get down there: I was trying to make it a bit of a choice between "confront the enemies on the road" vs. "go through the difficult terrain" but I can definitely see the advantage of having an ingress down there.

It's a good idea, thankyou both!

[haughty edge]

difficult terrain isn't a thing if you have a nelson in your squad xD

But if you want to keep this you can also make so

If they won a previous encounter

They can disable an Ingress zone

But I would still recommend to have enemies on the objectif

Just in case you have a Nelson going

https://tenor.com/view/speedster-wally-west-the-flash-flash-then-something-just-snapped-gif-26706389

[viscid plover]

Ah, forgot to say: this is going to be an LL0 team, so no Nelson shenanigans available, but I do definitely agree that a second ingress down there would make it more fun!

[haughty edge]

It spice the thing up

It also keeps that it's the easier road

Because there's only one Ingress zone

[viscid plover]

very true!

[last lichen]

jump jets 🤷🏿

[golden oriole]

Is the plan to move one of the ingress down and if so where?

Maybe they come in from height 2 cover on the bottom left?

[viscid plover]

ooh that's a cool idea: have em all jump in and get rowdy

like someone coming off the top rope in the ring...no extra damage for doing a jump attack but the idea is fun

[quaint flame]

Looks sick af

[haughty edge]

Anyone have advices to make hex maps on Inkarnate?

[thorny rock]

I usually lay out terrain, then turn hexes on for the placement of buildings, objects, cover etc. I think it's fairly important you don't get too into the idea that everything has to match up super accurately - the hex overlay exists to abstract that, so let it

[haughty edge]

Sometmes I have to do weird thing like this

Or that

[haughty edge]

I'm pretty sure thoses maps were made on inkarnate, I was just wondering how they were able to make it fit really good since Inkarnate doesn't have a hex option

I will try stuff like putting a single hex as a texture

It's partial victory

[slim schooner]

custom ones, the cargoyard had one to destroy a priority target before they reach the EZ, the base had activating terminals and defending generators, and the larger city one had one where the players needed to grab control zones to move the frontline of an active warzone, enemies could retake the points and if you entered enemy territory you would in fact suffer

[slim schooner]

inkarnate does have a hex option for the grid!

[haughty edge]

Oh?

[slim schooner]

i just have it on while i make the map, then turn it off when i export for foundry

[haughty edge]

Could you tell me where it is?

[slim schooner]

here !

[haughty edge]

Amazing!!

Thank you!

[slim schooner]

no problem! :3

[haughty edge]

That's way better

[amber blade]

Little late, but I'd say this is gonna be a good spot to shift the enemy deploy zone to. It's still clearly matching your intent with "face them on the road head on or take a scenic route", while not just flat giving the PCs multiple rounds of noninteraction from NPCs due to range once they pick a southern route.

Definitely add an ingress zone to the souther edge as well. The reinforcements in the map break up nicely into pods of 2, so a 3rd entry point will help with that as well as pressure the scenic route.

It's also just a very natural point to have an ambush at; blind turn where you can pop out of cover right as the convoy crosses

Beyond that, flattening the map's Y axis might be needed. If they take the top road there's a lot of spaces on the path that become wasted. The length in some areas is effectively doubled, as they need to go north, then push back south later, all the while not actually getting closer to the objective from a straight line perspective. That doubling back on a direction you moved previously is killer on an escort map and can greatly lengthen the effective path.

I have a write up on this map in the wallflower map drive about some set up and considerations. Might help give more perspective on making both paths viable

[quaint flame]

Hi

Have a map template

https://inkarnate.com/m/9gMvdK-35x21-hex-template-for-lancer

Duplicate this save when making new maps to make a map that's 31x25

# FOUNDRY:
## Grid type:
Hexagonal Rows - Even

## Grid Size:
100

## Image Dimensions
Width: 3500
Height: 1852

## Padding Percentage
0.25

## Offset Background
Horizontal: 0
Vertical: 0

# Roll20
## Page size
Width: 2634 px
Height: 1431 px

## Grid
Hex (V)

## Cell Width:
70 px

# Owlbear Rodeo
Apparently it's plug and play

I did all the calculations beforehand and make all my maps from this template

[haughty edge]

Thank you!!

[shrewd garnet]

Exactly what I was looking for O.O

[quaint flame]

Oh, forgor to post mine 💀, well... If that will do looks like ur covered. LMK if you wanna have a poke with the one I ggot anyway

[shrewd garnet]

Yesssssssss morrreeeee

[quaint flame]

IGF Act 1 mission 2 spoilers for anyone that cares

[shrewd garnet]

that is such a great map too, thx so much for sharing!

[thin solar]

Does anyone have a good battlemap base for an urban environment? As in inner city urban?

players are going to be doing a sweep for "ungreatfuls"

[late frost]

I’ve got a couple.

[thin solar]

Much appreciated friend. Thank you. Where did you get these by chance? Also do you have anything a bit more dense?

[void coyote]

Anybody got good hex format maps for a sim/holodeck kinda vibe? I'm looking to run the Tom Bloom special as a tutorial combat with this type of aestetic

[pastel delta]

There is one in the map spread sheet

[pastel delta]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o_GlAtN6MRmYWLbUOZB8RrtwZGL7upDX

[void coyote]

Oooh these are perfect! Thanks

[late frost]

I don’t have anything else unfortunately. I Made them myself in dungeon draft to answer your other Q. 😄

there are some good urban maps in the compendium, some that are much more vertical and congested too. I’d have to hunt to find them though, but I know there’s at least a few.

[thin solar]

The compendium?

[pastel delta]

Check the pins there is a spread sheet full of maps

Hundreds of them

[thin solar]

Thank you

[haughty edge]

Somehow if I don't background image scale 1.1544766708701135, it doest work correctly

[quaint flame]

weird

[haughty edge]

Yeah

[haughty edge]

Foundry moment I guess

https://tenor.com/view/huh-cat-cat-huh-small-cat-huh-what-gif-2593177363967991691

Ooorrrr

It's because I imported the maps as 2k

[shrewd garnet]

I once again summon thee, please datanodes of the internet, provide me with a chonky map of a space station / freight ship / hangar / similar with enough space for a Goliath Size 4 to dance around

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/oceansjonas-monkey-monkey-gifs-gif-11488773423760204512

Can't help you

[kindred timber]

Its an old map and I don't think its exactly something but this might work

[shrewd garnet]

I am deeply disappointed ;_;

[shrewd garnet]

Das gut

[dull sedge]

Inkarnate?

Their sci fi assets are really knocking it out of the park these days

[haughty edge]

Yee

[viscid plover]

Inkarnate's scifi assets have really been getting better yeah!

[haughty edge]

I will spend the day trying to figure out how to make it square xD

This works for me

A bit of drift but I can't fix that

Now step 2, trying to get a square template made

Heeeeyyy, it works

https://inkarnate.com/m/QVpqRE

For settings

Grid size 173

Scene Dimension 3200x3200
Padding 0.25
Offset Background : I used 4 1 but it's up to the person to line it up I think

[quaint flame]

(Ignore this message I thought it was square grid template not hexes)

You can calculate square grid size by finding the resolution of the the map, and the resolution of the grid, dividing the map size by grid size and set that to the grid size setting in foundry

So if you had a map that was 3500×2100px and the grid was 35×21 squares. Then grid size in foundry would be 100 pixels as each square is 100×100 pixels

With no offset

Wait my bad

I assumed it was using square grid

Maybe i should have clicked the link first :P

In which case I retract what I was saying and instead say hell yeah

[haughty edge]

I would have loved to have turned your template to make it an vertical square

But I can't manage to have the settings right xD

[quaint flame]

Yeah I had to do a lot of maths for mine

I dont remember the initial calculations

[haughty edge]

Dw, I understood that the best thing is to brute force it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUlNc9M3nAA

It's annoying that you can't have the grid how you wish to be

https://inkarnate.com/m/QVpLKd

[quaint flame]

I did find out that my grid template, if you swap it to vertical rows even and swap the width and height the map also works vertically

[haughty edge]

It's just annoying to have to turn your head on the side to vizualise the thing xD

[quaint flame]

I didn't lol

I made it horizontally ages ago then I went

"What if vertical"

And did that

Igf act 1 mission 5

[haughty edge]

Looks good

[gritty marlin]

90 degree Rotation is an underrated map building tactic

[inner portal]

I like the idea of more uhhh.. curated map shapes. I think the idea was floated here once, about like, basically designing a map like some of the CounterStrike maps, where it isn't square, it's got it's own flow and shape, and there are hollows in the map you can't get into, etc. I think that's a neat idea.

[late frost]

The pro move for hexes is 30 or 60 degrees rotation. 😉

[amber barn]

These are fantastic.

[haughty edge]

I will post one last tomorrow

And I might just make a bundle on ichio

The maps I posted here on a free bundle

And other on a paid one

[quaint flame]

Not my proudest, but map made for #1378465748812566640

[quaint flame]

Updated it a tad

Oops uploaded ggrid and gridless no hud when I was meant to do no zones

[inner portal]

do you pencil in wires lol?

I always debate the best way to apply the "lines" I'm using on incarnate. Mostly pen work, because it's obvious for straight lines.

Just curious if you squibble around with cords and non-standard lines like that.

[quaint flame]

Yep

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/489490742318989363/1391825193596358836/image.png?ex=686df679&is=686ca4f9&hm=6a66b1fd9c79001b13c2917210dcfe3316ae93cb0181bcad4cb20c0d4f7628c1&

[quaint flame]

I do rough estimations for what I want the map to look like first. Colour coding the cover size. Then draw map details on in brown like roads and such, here the big rail down the center

[sour junco]

Does anybody here have map file for isometric solstice rain combat2?

[pearl wedge]

I just wish to offer my earnest "Thank You" to all the map makers who donate their maps in here. You save me more hours enjoying my hobbies than you can possibly imagine.

[vivid void]

what are you using to place overlays for zones/info? is it like an foundry extension, some map-maker tool, photoshop...

[quaint flame]

#1216805351488356353 message

IF you check the message above this one, and go to the reply to that one I have more info too

But it's hand made in clip studio paint. Photoshop would also work

[vivid void]

Awesome, thank you for replying so fast!

[quaint flame]

np

[distant hawk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlemaps/s/8LHjcCfcUq

[mental ridge]

does anyone have some large ship tiles/maps? Like top-down ships
preferably not ones already tied to a background, but I can probably work with it anyway if they are
no interiors, just exterior
I have looked at czepeku's hyperdrive fleet but their stuff all seem to be small ships/fighters

[pearl wedge]

Any ship can be made bigger my adjusting how many pixels your foundry hexes are.

[mental ridge]

resizing isn't an issue it's just the look of them will still feel smaller than they should be presented as.
I guess it doesn't matter TOO much. It doesn't have to be too detailed, just prove the point of it being a big ship

I am looking for something that's like, somewhat long though
a lot of czepeku's ships are like, too wide or too round

[pearl wedge]

https://www.czepeku.com/scifi/ships/odobenus?v=original-interior

I highly recommend this one. My dm had a combat on this very ship and it was tense. The tight corners offered very interesting chokepoints and the ship is large enough that any type of sitrep that requires zone control or becons becomes very functional

Also, Pyro's on this map are very strong. Take it from someone who had to face check that personally.

[mental ridge]

I'll look into this one if I need to run a combat on a ship but for what I need right now, players wont be going on the ships
this is gooood but it screams transport to me, not battleship
I'll still grab it for now though, if I don't use it now I will in the future

[pearl wedge]

Oh maybe I misunderstood. The lancers are outside of the ship?

[mental ridge]

yes, I need ship exteriors not interiors
the sitrep will be a demolition sitrep, with the lancers flying through space destroying the ships in the fleet

[pearl wedge]

I dont know how good you are at map editing but you could combine a few of these

Or something like this and make the sitrep Breach and Clear if you are familiar with enhanced combat

[mental ridge]

this is kaffeezombie's yeah
I'll download this and see what I can do

I don't think the ships have been separated so I might have to cut them out of the background in photoshop

[pearl wedge]

I dont know the narative but another option could be planting explosives on one ship at strategic points rather than multiple. This may make the map editing or finding more managable.

[mental ridge]

I know it would make it more manageable but I am a dumb fucking stupid deranged twisted fucking psychopath and I specifically want this sitrep to emulate something along the lines of the fleet assault mission in ZOE2 or the mission in armored core for answer where you shoot down all the giant ships

[pearl wedge]

Such is the life of a GM. Well goodluck my friend. And please if you manage the pull something off share it here.

[mental ridge]

will do

[mental ridge]

does czepeku provide the animated space backgrounds shown on their ships list on their website? I can't seem to find it on their patreon

nvm think I found them

[frank elbow]

I asked in the LEC thread, but has anyone here run an LEC behemoth and, if so, what was the map you used?

I'm struggling to think of how to design a map around a huge NPC

[lapis rain]

thank you so much for this existing, finding maps was the worst

[inner portal]

I had my players fight a Behemoth on this map... which is.. nearly bereaft of any terrain lol.

Narratively it's an area that had a lot of wreckage of mechs burried, and the behemoth was scavaging for parts to integrate.

But as a general statement, behemoth brawl is uhhh.. it isn't terribly interesting. Unless you have a team of players where no one uses melee, and they are all running away so the behemoth can be crushing things chasing them down. But realistically, it's like.. people get stuck in and that's that. it's fairly rock'em-sock'em-robots.

[frank elbow]

They need something straightforward so that's fine

[inner portal]

I meant using the "pencil" tool when you lay down visual wires and odds and ends that are "paths" on Inkarnate 😭

I'm making a mess, save me

[inner portal]

Good enough, I suppose.

[quaint flame]

Are you talking about the cover size indicators?

[inner portal]

Noooo nono, literelly the wires. Like between the generators on the map I just posted.

the stuff that's just "flavor" on the map, most of the time.

[quaint flame]

Ooooh I see

Yeah its just the path tool set to a very low layer

I use them a lot to add visual clutter where there's a lot of blank empty space on the floor

[raven maple]

anybody have a map of a mech-hangar interior - bonus points if its covered in a biological infestation of some kind slowly creeping from a source at one end...

think something along the lines of the way the Xenomorph overtakes a room in a ship and then it spreads out as their influence extends...

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/im-not-a-perfect-person-cat-side-eye-distress-looking-gif-16639804187763803346

I know some guy made aliens inspired maps

Not here but on the Battlemap reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/starfinder_rpg/comments/mjlxqo/collapsed_mining_station_entrance_40x4070pxsq/

Noty what you are looking for but maybe they made something that might fit your request

I'm starting to work on the bundle, the idea would be to bundle around 9-10 maps together...

No idea from when it comes to prices but I think 5$ is a fair prices

They are going to be space themed, either in the vacuum of Space or In Spaceships/Stations

[formal slate]

sorry if it's not the right place to ask, but does anyone happen to have a map for a mech graveyard?

i really don't want to look for multiple wreck tokens to put on a regular map

[quaint flame]

In good news, retrograde minis has a bunch of mech wrecks if you need to go that way

[formal slate]

i saw

i don't want to do it, but it's cool

[haughty edge]

Find a cyberpunk dump and put some mechs wreck around

[inner portal]

Not exactly a mech hangar, but uhh.. definitely infestation growing.

[raven maple]

Thanks @haughty edge @inner portal for your suggestions. I think I can find something between these, maybe pinch some stuff from the infestation map and add it to the other ones.
❤️

[inner portal]

Yeah, the infestation maps I posted are crap, I know because || I made them || 😂

[haughty edge]

2/10 maps done

[azure tree]

These are amazing. Do they sit anywhere online? For example, I see one says unexploded, suggesting you have an alternative version of the map as well?

I appreciate you sharing these.

[slim schooner]

A- thank you so much!!- i dont really have them online anywhere, should maybe make a pack or something ^^' also dont really have an alternative version, its more the map which i will use after this encounter is interrupted, because the group is going to be ambushed by a third party and dropped down into a pit via hidden explosives, forcing them to make a temporary truce with their quarry.

Holdout here, and Enemy IZ is any point next to the rubble

[azure tree]

Ohhhh

That's actually pretty cool.

I expect the coming session to play out out-of-mech, but would definitely steal this from you if it was otherwise 😄

[shadow sail]

can I ask for advice on mapdesign?

I am having issues with making the scale of this believable

the idea is that this is a reactor control room of a station

and I am not sure what to do

[inner portal]

Step one is, let go.

It's hard, working with assets that you aren't creating, to get perfect scale, plus hexes varies in size and when you paste it in a vtt.

But one thing I've done in the past with Inkarnate is, you can upload your own assets, if it helps, try putting a retrograde mini up in there, then you can scale it to fit hexes you want it to, and from there maybe the comparison of size will be easier mentally?

Or you just have to keep experimenting with using different stamps and scales to get the effects you desire. It is a messy process, to be sure. Map making is relaxing for some people, same as many creative pursuits, but it's also not super quick or easy to just "get" off the bat.

[quaint flame]

Personally, I think it looks fine, I can imagine it as a massive vehicle sized catwalk. It could have more scattered terrain and such about and on the catwalk, potentially using like other stamps and drawings and such to signify loading areas, places cables connect, vehicle lanes in needed, etc

And you can always put walls ontop of the railings and scale them up if you want them to be like... walls

[inner portal]

Oh don't get me wrong I think the original post is perfectly fine, it's just if you're getting in your own head about scale and thinking things look weird, it's a let go situation. You're doing great, trust me, the only bad people do is beating themselves up over it.

[quaint flame]

Oh dw that wasn't a reply to ur message

That was meant to be for the original

[shadow sail]

maybe there should be rails. Heavy duty transportation inside this station

I am planing on covering some of the edges of the map with walls, but like...I also need help designing the ascetics of the space. Like...I need greebles and props to dot this map

[viscid plover]

An easy one I like is power cables or those kind of aluminium-looking ducts imo. I think they're under the line tool: this kinda thing!

[inner portal]

I also like adding smoke or fire in industrial settings, easy fix up for making things look slightly more dynamic.

The Spark effects work well too, and Inkarnate also has lights, which will basically just add aura style tints to the map, you can layer them under your catwalks to make the generators glow but nothing above, could be neat.

[shadow sail]

what is this from?

[viscid plover]

It's from a map I made!

[viscid plover]

not finished so here's a wider shot of it: had been chipping away at it for about a week and haven't worked on it in about a month

[inner portal]

I love that the platform with the green light bottom-ish left is definitely not mech sized.

We need more rewards for half sized mechs.

And sitreps with interactables that reward manipulators lol

[distant hawk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlemaps/s/l4PyAVahdk

[quaint flame]

Its fuckin sick

[cyan current]

Does anyone have any wintery/ glacial maps available?

Nvm found some.

[shrewd garnet]

Used this map twice by now and its golden, really cool to have players go down different paths and put enemies right in between. Real fun, good composition :D

[quaint flame]

Its probs one of my best layout wise

[haughty edge]

I made other ones if you are interested

[shrewd garnet]

I am always interested in French's Homemade Handmade Organic Maps™ especially if you finally offer the bundle for €€€

$$$ really feels better to type

[devout aurora]

Surface Ruins

[haughty edge]

The bundle is not yet here

4/10!

[devout aurora]

(Map designed to try and be flexible with placing down destructible objects/cover/terrain)

[haughty edge]

@shrewd garnet

[haughty edge]

And there

This bundle also stress me a bit, I don't know how much I should sell it

Part of me thinks 10€ for 10 maps is a good price... Another says no

[shrewd garnet]

On Itch.io, everything above 5 Euro sells like a slog from my limited perception and talking to other creatives - but we were talking ttrpgs and not maps

[last lichen]

do something exotic like ﷼﷼﷼

[inner portal]

Is there anything in particular you look for in maps, out of curiosity? I make my own, but I don't consider them terribly great.

[quaint flame]

I think your maps are pretty good

[inner portal]

"The first step to becoming great is to assume you suck hard." ~ Confucius or some shit

But thank you for the vote of confidance, in all seriousness lol

[quaint flame]

I was also gonna put out my piece of how much to sell for a map pack but I decided not to cos im not one to speak

[haughty edge]

Yee, your maps are good

[quaint flame]

The more self deprecation you give yourself the more you believe it

Even if said in jest

[haughty edge]

10 000 000 usd

[quaint flame]

You're your harshest critic. (Just kidding, I am)

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-mewo-money-sleep-lie-gif-13754411530093249025

[quaint flame]

22 unique maps with atleast 3 variants each for free/pwyw is not financially viable lmao

But I didnt make them for the money, I made them to be used so im glad they are

[haughty edge]

Yeah, that's also why I post my maps here

It's just a part of me that is like "you could pay comms for your homebrew module "

[inner portal]

I do think PWYW is a fine price, and people who appreciate creators will likely give funds back; But also the Lancer community is very giving, so it's not terrible to offer things to those who can't afford some things.

It sucks that RPGs as a general statement are vastly undervalued (like, price of products, people in industry aren't making tons of money), but hopefully Lancer's general community fosters understanding and the want to give back to creators.

[thorny rock]

Ooohhhh this map is nice, superb cover placement.

qq, what did you make this with? owo

[devout aurora]

Made it in RPG Map Maker 2 by Deepknight Games, completely free and you can import your own images.

That map is made with several open spaces where you could put destructible objects, cover, and terrain if you want to add more cover to the map.

[azure tree]

What software and asset pack is this? Looking awesome.

[inner portal]

That's Inkarnate, from the looks of it.

[azure tree]

Thanks. How can you tell?

[inner portal]

Familiarity. I use it a bunch, I know all those assets.

[last lichen]

also statistically speaking, guessing inkarnate is a good guess

[inner portal]

Tru, Inkarnate is a staple for map making.

Most other programs don't have as robust built in asset packs, which means people are shopping for asset packs from various sources (Patreon or Itch, whatever) and, IMO, those tend to have less options. There are a few asset packs out there that serve "modern"/"Sci-fi" but across the board, most map options are typically fantasy. It can be pretty tough if you're not your own asset creator.

[azure tree]

So you're recognising these as base Inkarnate assets?

[inner portal]

that is correct

[azure tree]

Thank you, I'll have to check it out!

[haughty edge]

That's how I feel making a map

I will do buildings insteads

It will be better than random crates and gives a CQB vibe to it

Yeeeee better

[quaint flame]

Real

[haughty edge]

I ended up cooking I think

I will end with a reactor room

ANd I think I will release the pack for 5$

[azure tree]

~~Hey @quaint flame, would it be cheeky to ask whether no-overlay versions of these 3 maps exist somewhere online?

(I believe they're yours.)~~

They fit the purposes of my next session very well and would love to be able to use them, if possible.

[quaint flame]

They're not mine

They're fucking beautiful but not mine

@slim schooner made them

[inner portal]

What size do you guys normally make a car on a map?

[viscid plover]

Depends!

Usually I'll do em as size 1s

[devout aurora]

Eh depends, you can choose to make them Size 1 or Size 1/2

Making cars Size 1 tho gives me the funny mental image of a Blackbeard driving a Honda Civic.

[viscid plover]

That's if I'm doing a sort of 1:1-ish scale I spose rather than a larger, representative-of-a-bigger-battle size

Blackbeard in a hummer like:

[devout aurora]

Nelson in a Formula 1 Racing Car outfitted with Nitro and hooked up to its own reactor and Ramjet when?

[inner portal]

Yeah, just curious how people see the scale of vehicles regularly compared to like, what they expect mechs to be, ya know?

[viscid plover]

I kind of base my sizes roughly on how Solstice Rain and Winter Scar's maps do it, but with a bit of malleability

[haughty edge]

A car size 1

A bus or a truck Size 2

I made so a Car take two hexes

A truck more

[quaint flame]

Half or 1 depending on the car size

[azure tree]

Ohhh, apologies. I thought I saw you share maps from time to time with the same overlay and was under the impression this was the same batch.

[azure tree]

Hi @slim schooner, may I ask whether these maps exist anywhere online (whether free or for sale) in a gridless, no-overlay version?

They're lovely and I could really use something like this for the upcoming session.

[slim schooner]

A- dont have them online anywhere ^^ (really considering maybe uploading them somewhere as a free bundle) , but i can quickly make some gridless/no-overlay versions! Gimme a sec!

[slim schooner]

here!

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-peak-this-is-fucking-peak-peak-gif-9818841776131764942

[azure tree]

Oh wow, I didn't expect you to actually export them specifically. Thank you so much! Do make it known in case you ever start selling your maps, please!

[shadow sail]

does anyone have good map examples with reactors, fuel rods, and ship parts?

[craggy kernel]

The height markers on the first one are from Inkarnate too?

[kindred timber]

Yes

[craggy kernel]

Nice!

[quaint flame]

In golden flame act 2 spoilers

[vivid void]

menacing

[haughty edge]

That's awesome

[devout aurora]

Eh, I figure these maps could be of use to other peeps as well.

Behoooold, my stuff

||They are mid compared to the amazing stuff I see here but these are moine||

[golden oriole]

These look amazing! I have to ask how did you get those building assets? Did you add them into rpg mapmaker 2?

[amber jay]

They look like Kafeezombie's props. I think you can find them on their google drive in the pinned message.

[devout aurora]

Yeh those are Kaffeezombie's props yeah, and the image inserter in RPG Map Maker 2 works with them too

[haughty edge]

Your maps gives me a big rimworld vibe

[devout aurora]

Tenkiu <:3

[lunar vapor]

Some industrial red desert-y battlemaps i made, altho i use square grid in mind.

nature based maps with variants

[lunar vapor]

some amazing stuff. i believe you use inkarnate for these right? what do you use to make those cable effects if you dont mind me asking?

[inner portal]

It's just a stamp option for the pen tool on Inkarnate.

Looks like Geodon maybe altered the colors to make them more mute, I think they standardly come in kinda garish looking bright colors (Yellows, reds, greens).

[lunar vapor]

i see. yeah i gotta think out of the box more for these stuff to up my map making quality lol

[inner portal]

Yeah, that certainly helps lol

Using random assets for things they aren't normally, it's it's own kinda skill

[gritty marlin]

@quaint flame Just wanted to say that as a small map enjoyer, I do enjoy your 35x21 maps since I can easily block them into 17x21 maps instead with clever placement of Walls:

[quaint flame]

Damn

[slim schooner]

yup! and like Tawgzilla mentioned i used one of the cable options for the pen tool and fiddled with the saturation/brightness/contrast/hue etc. etc.

[quaint flame]

Also, that ones outdated i think I have one with better hud indicators in the itch

And i removed the difficult terrain because its just unnecessarily cruel for large people

[gritty marlin]

yup yup just changed em out haha

I do think the diff terrain is more manageable on a smaller map though

[quaint flame]

True

The cover is quite uncomfortable with larger peeps without captain Morgan, but if any issues come up let me know but that maps intended to be in a low G environment

[quaint flame]

Can just add it back with THT 😛

[gritty marlin]

Oh I added it and left it there

[haughty edge]

Small maps are also my favorites

I just don't like that having an artillery frame generaly means they can reach the whole map xD

[gritty marlin]

yeah this is why I try to introduce lots of Line of Sight blockers and houserule how Arcing and Seeking work haha

[haughty edge]

Yeah, I also have a huge problem with Seeking :/

[gritty marlin]

we just had a biggo discussion about it in #gm-corner today haha

[haughty edge]

OH SHOOT! I THOUGHT WE WERE IN GM CORNER SORRY

Lemme check

[azure tree]

Now, where would I find that? 🤔

[gritty marlin]

https://lmplo.itch.io/in-golden-flame-act-1-unofficial-map-pack

[quaint flame]

https://lmplo.itch.io/in-golden-flame-act-1-unofficial-map-pack

Piss

[gritty marlin]

Al deserves good money for this great work

[quaint flame]

:3

Oopsy, undercharged

[gritty marlin]

I wanna see someone find a way to run something on this map: https://www.czepeku.com/scifi/maps/construction-site?v=original-day

I've been fiddling with it for a while but it's huge, meaning:

1. If go 1-to-1 scale with the grid, it's bigger than I'll ever need
2. if I go 2-to-1 scale, all the single-square items are hard to walk on due to the snap to grid
3. If I go Gridless to solve #2, I can't use Token Height Tools for Line of Sight since it doesn't support Gridless 😩

which leaves maybe cutting up the map into smaller pieces?

[inner portal]

Option 4. Reject tiny maps, play on 60+ grid 😂

I mean, in all honesty, you could just play an "extended" sitrep that is the equivalent to two sitreps back to back, played out on the same map without a "break" in the fiction.

[gritty marlin]

Yeah that’s what I mean by “cutting it up” haha

[inner portal]

Oh, I assumed you meant literally chopping off parts of the map

[gritty marlin]

Yes, but also no 😅

I’d take a “cropping” tool to cordon off my play area for a given fight

What you proposed was basically just doing that twice 😄

[inner portal]

Oh, except I wouldn't even cordon off zones. I'd just natively let the map flow with Objs in locations that aren't the full extend of the map to start, and then "shift" the primary obj as the fight continues

I would, strictly speaking, not "call it two SitReps", I would call it one that evolves over the course of the sitrep.

[kindred peak]

I made a bunch of maps for my full lancer game that is done now - if anyone ever wants to use em feel free!

This was a small station taken over by pirates map

this was a battle arena built by an academy

Sometimes they are full game boards like this. Thi is 3 different scenes on one page. For a Sparri hunter mission and killing poachers at the end

here is their end game space ship they rode around in for the last 1/3 of the game

i have all kinds of others for pilots and mechs

if anyone needs something let me know haha

[amber barn]

Made these for a short one mission game, Players break into an infested bunker to retrieve (insert important thing) then holdout at the surface until they get picked up. Had fun with the Retrograde biomecha tokens for this one. Started with the more chill outdoors one "Burn the Welcome Mat" with the players at the bottom heading up. The bulkhead one I had the players go left to right in a breach and clear sitrep and then the less chill outdoors one for the holdout. Thought I'd share. (They are my first maps be gentle).

[inner portal]

Awesome. Good use of altering the first map to reduce the need to make more and more stuff lol

[amber barn]

😅 True true

[lyric burrow]

for combat! cage match style
(Finally getting back to this)
But! The goal was 2v2 in 2 lanes. Middle area is for reinforcements plus lane switches
Catwalks are different heights, with space under em

Finally the furnaces are a quick action that basically melt and scorch in a blast 3!
Players had alot fun with this mal

[haughty edge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQcqa8drd9E

[thorny rock]

I don't recall 100%, but I think @eternal dock ran a combat on this map? That or I'm hallucinating the plans to run this map (⁠;⁠ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠)

[eternal dock]

Unfortunately we ended up running a custom map instead iirc

[haughty edge]

I would make an Extraction with the deep space variant

[haughty edge]

Turns out I got inspired...

[haughty edge]

Ok I think i've made my best map '-'

[haughty edge]

The pack is done but...

Setting up a ichio page seems like a headache and i'm scared to be in trouble with tax....

Ye I won't release it then

[gritty marlin]

it's worth it

[haughty edge]

Ok I got it

I'm scared of tax...

https://stamiaou.itch.io/lancer-space-battlemaps-bundle

I can upload the free map for anyone who wants it

And the settings

[modern ivy]

Does anyone have like. A scrapyard/factory map

I am not getting this map done before next session lol

[gritty marlin]

I’d rec checking out some of Al’s IGF maps?

[inner portal]

I swear, who ever is the architect for some of the maps I make needs to be fired. Like, who clusters three buildings that close together with all different angles???? || It's me, I should be fired ||

[quaint flame]

And stairs that large

each of those steps is 1.7 ft tall

[inner portal]

You know my maps scales better than I do lol

I'm usually not offended by "huge ass steps" though, in a world where bipedal robots are common af.

Building designs 100% would be made to incorporate their use.

[quaint flame]

True

It's not a bad thing, I just find it very funny when you think about it

[inner portal]

I think it's more likely you'd end up seeing steps like.. 10ft wide at different increments.

[devout aurora]

Would be better if it was that wide tbh considering some of the bipedal mechs can be uhh, varied in leg shape, leg size, leg length, and leg count.

[gritty marlin]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/protected-eco-135180045

Cze and Peku rolling out yet another map that looks like it could fit on Hercynia

[inner portal]

I seen. I recently subbed to them, figure I might actually try to write up some one-shot sitreps for a handful of the maps for funsies.

[rough elbow]

Any good building asset packs?

[modern ivy]

New map

[viral glade]

pretty baller

[quaint flame]

Inkarnate's hex grid floor patterns don't line up with the hex grid

I'm going to explode

[slim schooner]

I KNOWWWWWWW

[inner portal]

This is in fact how most NHPs reach the state of eidolon

[quaint flame]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-shake-gif-19831790

[devout aurora]

Via Crashout

[plain ravine]

Does anyone have some indoor maps with multiple hallways and rooms? The fight I’m working on is a lot of indoor combat as the players clear a base

[haughty edge]

I sold the bundle 3 times but I got no review about it

I have no idea if that's a good sign or not

[plain ravine]

Decided I’m gonna try to make my own maps because it actually seems really interesting, do you guys have any recommendations for what sites/software to use to make them? I’m still kinda new to all this

[coral patrol]

DungeonDraft, Inkarnate, and Dungeon Scrawl are my recs

[plain ravine]

Thanks

[quaint flame]

Ive spoken a lot about map making software but my gist of it is summed up like this #gm-corner message

If you wanna know more about my opinions especially on Inkarnate just search my previous messages in this server snd search for "inkarnate"

[modern ivy]

Finishing touches on this

[plain ravine]

Gonna try using inkarnate because from what I’ve seen it has a lot of cool stuff, my only issue is that everything EXCEPT sci-fi has a free option

[gritty marlin]

Ayyy nice, it honestly depends on where you’ve been marketing tbh

Like if you haven’t mentioned it much outside of this channel then yeah there won’t be a lot of activity

As per reviews, most of my stuff has 0-1 review lol despite a decent amount of sales. Don’t get disheartened about this either

[haughty edge]

Oh no there's a lot of activity, ppl downloaded a lot of the freemap and i got like 3 ppl buying it

[shrewd garnet]

@haughty edge 4 ppl, send some extra for taxes.

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/ultrasad-gif-23310565

Thank you ;;;;

[paper wedge]

Finally found some time to make that asset pack from my underwater oneshot, if anyone needs underwater maps and tokens: https://kaffeezombie.itch.io/lancer-rpg-water-maps-tokens

[devout aurora]

Damn, water maps and tokens but Kaffee boiling the seas cause it is nothing but straight fire once again.

[amber jay]

Started an underwater mission last session. With today the first underwater combat it dropped at the perfect moment. Had half a dozen giant eels swarming the "outpost" my player had to defend. Tons of fun.

Thanks for the maps and tokens.

[jovial pilot]

Are there some decent hanger/ship maps available?

[haughty edge]

It contains this map but finished

And other space themed maps, hangars, asteroid fields battle. The demo map is that one

[quaint flame]

I have some. In ggolden flame act 1 spoilers

I have more variants with objectives and without hud on my Itch

[pale axle]

Working on a battlemap which is a huge ship exterior

[gritty marlin]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mountain-pass-136757722

For some verticality in your lives

[shadow sail]

So I am having trouble designing this map. It is supposed to be a holdout where the players are Albatross pilots fighting off a group of pirate boarders who are trying to capture and hold the ship's hangar launch bays. I have tried to add in some distinct Albatross flair for decoration with the CZ being a coat of arms decal on the floor, and having some holographic knights in holo displays. But the map feels a bit empty.

I am trying to mix form and function, with improvised barricades blending in with the tools necessary to operate starfighter wings and chassis mounts to later launch them. What can I add to this map? If I start adding random things like barrels, crates, and pipes it looks less regal and cared for, more slapshod

[quaint flame]

Big open metallic spaces are horrible for this, I relate a lot

So normally I would add lots of scatter terrain and such, and simple things on the floor do make it look better

If you're worried about uniformity of scatter cover you can have them ordered in a grid like pattern or rows

You want to break up the monotony of the single texture, the breach point is also a good excuse for thinggs to have scattered away from an explosion or be knocked around in commotion

Paint on the floor to represent landing zones, crane lines on the to represent where a cargo crain will slide (and a cargo crane too for ggood measure). Bundles of wires in channels in the floor

And luckily for albatross you could argue any type of shit you'd see in a castle, future modified or not. ANd luckily Inkarnate has a LOT of castle assets

Here's some ideas of stuff from my maps used to break up the monotony of a single floor texture

Oil in crevices, orderly cables in little greebles, slight scuff marks on the floor, 90 degree or angled pipes or cables (rathjer than just scribbled on)

[stable ember]

Which software do you use for creating these maps?

[craggy kernel]

Inkarnate iirc

[quaint flame]

^

[still matrix]

Battlemap I've been working on.

[haughty edge]

The map seems good

I struggle a bit to read the text but outside of that it seems good

Also be careful when it comes to scale because in this disposition your player mech will be really small next to the buildings

[stable ember]

Maybe the buildings are just super super big

AC style

[haughty edge]

I would also advice to put covers

In between the buildins

[silver knoll]

I'd say the grid is too thick, imo

[quaint flame]

The grid is quite thick and I just realised MASSIVE

The map is 54 tiles wide which is massive

[azure tree]

https://tenor.com/view/massive-michael-kupris-become-the-knight-huge-big-gif-21652364

To be fair, thinning the grid a little and maybe scaling it up slightly is a super easy fix for both the above issues.

[devout aurora]

Or if you wanna do interesting things with the map, you can have like dedicated teleportation pads or rail lines that allow PCs and NPCs to zoom around the map and also possibly/maybe run over people.

[inner portal]

I don't play on maps less than 60x70

[gritty marlin]

Built different

[proud atlas]

me too sorta, i like big battlefields

lets the people with a lot of range kind of shine more

[torn gazelle]

My best attempt at rebuilding AC6's Galia Damn mission. To whomever finds use for it

[proud atlas]

do you have a gridless version? great work btw

[torn gazelle]

Yeah, just a moment

Would you prefer one without grid, or without markings?

[proud atlas]

without either, so i can change the sitrep as well

[torn gazelle]

There you go

Unless I misunderstood you lmao

[devout aurora]

This is a bootiful mapp

[torn gazelle]

Thanks!

[torn gazelle]

Am I happy with this? No. Will I spend the rest of the week fussing over it instead of prepping the actual session?
Also no

[last lichen]

plot twist on that second “no”

[still matrix]

Yeah this map was meant to be for a big scale boss battle so I wanted it to be extra large. (Basically inside a massive hollowed out astroid)

[haughty edge]

If you want an advice

If you want to show a big map, make multiple

And switch them when you need to hehe

[still matrix]

Oh aye, that the plan from now on.

[last lichen]

even kinda ties into how combat is set up in lancer. like, go through a gauntlet or two before reaching the actual battle. or escort something there. or …

i think the system is pretty good for making multi part battles

[proud atlas]

thank you v much

[torn gazelle]

Nah, the plot twist is waking up to "can we play tomorrow instead of Sunday"
Which puts a cap on fussing about very quickly xD

[inner portal]

Did you hand-draw your markings, holy crap?

That must have taken forever

[torn gazelle]

I sure as fuck did.

Honestly the Galia map wasnt nearly as bad as the distillery

[last lichen]

i didn’t even notice that. it does lead to a certain distinct style 🤔

[inner portal]

Awe inspiring dedication.

[torn gazelle]

Petty stubbornness more than dedication tbh

[inner portal]

I don't think it looks bad or anything, it's legit, but Iknow how long it takes to make zig-zag lines like that lol.

[torn gazelle]

Im open for suggestions that A look better and B are faster lmao

[last lichen]

i’m not saying it doesn’t look good :)

[inner portal]

I spend plenty of time doodling zones in Foundry with the draw tool, and it's time consuming.

[torn gazelle]

I realize I only shared the blank version. Heres the marked one for anyone who wants it

[last lichen]

at least use the region tool, it works on grid spaces 😬 (or tht, i suppose)

[torn gazelle]

Yeah, its a hobby in its own right. I guess I just dont like super simple maps and want something I will spend hours staring at to be pretty

[inner portal]

I have not used Al's method myself, but it looks like a good plan.

Had to scroll up a bunch to get to it. Honestly Al's original message wouldn't be a bad one to pin if that's something a mod could do?

[torn gazelle]

Im using Inkarnate, not Foundry, unfortunately, but its definitely worth a pin, I agree

[inner portal]

Oh, Al is using Clip Studio Paint, but presumably you can use whatever image software you want.

Al does Inkarnate for maps, and the after edits in another art program afterwards.

[torn gazelle]

Ohh, thats clever, yeah

[inner portal]

@gritty marlin is that something you can pin? Not sure if you have such privileges. Is pinning even allowed? I dunno if there are rules about that.

[gritty marlin]

What post

I don’t have pin privileges though

Ask a mod or curator?

[inner portal]

Al's grid-making guide that they posted a bit ago (like, 4 months ago at this point)

[slim schooner]

mfw i need to prep 5~ maps for next weeks bossfight (why am i doing this to myself)

[gritty marlin]

Highly rec nabbing some from this channel to save time haha

Also rec reusing some maps in different contexts (aka different sitreps, different deployment zones, etc)

[slim schooner]

doesnt work for the exact scenario i have in mind sadly x3

[haughty edge]

What you have in mind?

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-spider-man-web-of-shadows-depressed-sad-gif-16524395

Me who wanted an excuse to make maps...

[devout aurora]

That's rough buddy.

[proud atlas]

me who wants to build out my ideas but I don't have the grindset to learn how to make a map

[last pine]

I know the feeling. Slogging through Inkarnate at the moment, and that's just recreating maps from grids with cover notations. I'd start doing that, though - it gets easier fast when you at least have a guide to start with and just need to figure that out.

[blissful vortex]

a few maps I made recently. Shoutout to Forgotten Adventures and Czepeku for the assets

[pastel delta]

Why does the floor have eyes 👀 on the first one

[quaint flame]

Demons

[blissful vortex]

No reason, no reason at all. Ignore the teeth too, they're totes not there too

[pastel delta]

Oh gods the teeth why did I not see the teeth 😭 🦷

[lucid talon]

Getting ready for tomorrow's session 1

[gritty marlin]

damn the hex grid is small haha

[azure tree]

Good luck!

[devout aurora]

Dear gob that is a huge map

[blissful vortex]

And I thought I had a problem with making fat maps

[coral patrol]

This board rules

[gaunt atlas]

Last Week we played our first mission with a battletech map, this time I designed my own. I still have problems finding the right way to do hex tiles, since dungeondraft only works with square ones

I also added a section if the players wanted to explore the hangar, looking forward to learn the human vs human combat

[haughty edge]

Out of curiosity, whart do you guys uses to put zones on your maps?

[quaint flame]

I do mine manually

#1216805351488356353 message

This is how

[haughty edge]

Thank you!

[still matrix]

Yeah I do all my outlines in inkarnate when I'm doing the map itself.

[haughty edge]

I will share that one for free I think so here's the WIP

With my awful tanks/artilery

[still matrix]

V nice! I'm making a hellish fight rn

Urban warfare. It's really not fun.

[haughty edge]

Yeah

The hardest thing is to figure out how to make buildings

When you do, and realize how stupid it is

Your maps gains a lot of depth

[still matrix]

Oh aye. Though this is specifically one of the worse kinds of urban fights. Highways

[haughty edge]

I made a highway fight on a bridge

I added holes on it and the ability to fly around if players wanted to

What I like when making maps is creating maps with problems

Idon't do the solution myself so players have to figure it out themselfs

[still matrix]

Oh aye. This is gonna be "survive" for the first 4 rounds, then figure out a way out.

[haughty edge]

I'm so tired but I think it looks pretty good

[haughty edge]

Here, tomorrow i'll do the zones

[last lichen]

done

[haughty edge]

Yes.

[quaint flame]

The forest area looks real good

[haughty edge]

Btw players start left, they must escort a bomb

To destroy the Artilery

But you can do it the other way around

"Defend our base and we have artilery to help"

Atm i'm hesitant on making a new pack, either forest themed or new mombasa themed

[haughty edge]

Now...Figuring out how to have a hex map that isn't in SVG xD

Or open SVG in paint.net

[haughty edge]

Found a way around

[quaint flame]

Load it into paint: save as PNG???

[haughty edge]

It does't open has xD

I just redid the same map but blank

And exported it

Eh, gonna instal Krita

And see if it's better

[quaint flame]

Might have luck with GIMP?

[haughty edge]

Yeah I'll see if there is everything you said in your tutorial

[haughty edge]

I hate learning a new software

[craggy kernel]

Where did you get the hex grid?
Is that something Krita can make?

[haughty edge]

I'm on Gimp

And I just generated one using Inkarnate

[craggy kernel]

Gotcha

[haughty edge]

I think I got my mistake...

Nah I don't get it

[haughty edge]

Gimp is the worst app I've ever touched wtfc

It sometimes do something, and sometimes won't because it decided to

Yeah Nah it doesn't work on Himp

https://tenor.com/view/drlawliet-nyawliet-monke-drippy-monkey-drippedoutmonkey-gif-21673454

I'll draw them by hands.

[haughty edge]

I found a way around again

[haughty edge]

I spent 4h figuring out the stroke tool 😔

[last lichen]

you almost had a … stroke over it

https://tenor.com/view/horatio-caine-yeah-csi-miami-sunglasses-meme-gif-4566497

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-bocchi-the-rock-stroke-gif-27021824

I already had it

[devout aurora]

I am assuming you are going to dive off Gimp and try Krita?

Or perhaps Sunk Cost Fallacy grabbed you and now you can't leave Gimp?

[quaint flame]

Hell yeah

[haughty edge]

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Gimp crashes when I try to put borders on text

[devout aurora]

I pray for thy eventual escape.

[haughty edge]

I'll make a freepack of thoses

[haughty edge]

Feel free to use thoses

And give me feedbacks

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-the-rock-bocchi-hehe-laugh-amazed-gif-13897314704535954857

[still matrix]

Moved a few bits around and sized up one of the trucks.

[last lichen]

if i do i will definitely make the artillery shoot things 😬

[haughty edge]

I designed it to push a bomb

It'd the extraction target

[shrewd garnet]

Best mission, did that as my very first map to basically slamdunk a nuke into a standing artillery piece and its so much fun to explain that to players :D

[haughty edge]

Hehe

[viral glade]

Does someone have a desert map

Like in some big ol pile of sand

[late frost]

I’ve got a couple

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JbVaTwRA-S1dUo4c3Xnk9z4_qRJJmYBr

3 in the desert run folder + the freight elevator one not in a folder.

Looks like I’m missing a 5th one with some buildings…

[limpid dirge]

Does anyone have a map for a control point sitrep inside a capital ship?

[haughty edge]

Wait lemme get em...

Thoses are my first maps

[viral glade]

holy shit these are perfect

[haughty edge]

I don't have the setings for them in mind tho

But happy to help

As always feedback is welcomed once you played with it

[inner portal]

Got a handful of some similar.

[golden olive]

oh yeah, anyone got a landing pad map?

[inner portal]

Off hand, no, but any details you could provide? I could whip something up

[golden olive]

outdoors. imagine it like the talons fight in dustgrave with a ship in the back, except less dusty and more green. no need if you don't have time tho, I could try and look for something

[inner portal]

It just occured to me that I made an air-strip once before lol

No ships on this (I added them as tokens when I used it).

[golden olive]

ayyy neaT! if i can use it, I can just add in a ship

thanks!

[inner portal]

And a random new one

I hate making ships on Inkarnate lol, they always look like.. bllegh

[golden olive]

ayy tahnsk!!

[torn gazelle]

Woo, maps

On second thought, that rain is atrocious

Rainless version

[haughty edge]

Where did you find the sandbag assets?

[torn gazelle]

Theyre part of inkarnate! Called "sack" and just dragged up to look less like grain and more like sand

[haughty edge]

Ohhh xD

Thanks xD

[torn gazelle]

Im actively malding over lining up grids. Jesus fucking Christ

[quaint flame]

Hey so is it time to shill my map template again

[meager stream]

I've been using your map template. It rocks.

Perfect size for almost anything I want to do in lancer

[inner portal]

I always want to see it

[quaint flame]

#gm-corner message

[still matrix]

its an amazing one!

[pearl wedge]

You do

[blissful vortex]

Rood

[pearl wedge]

Its ok, I am an everest lol

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/i-see-huge-potential-grady-smith-it-can-become-great-the-potential-for-greatness-you-have-huge-potential-gif-4059575409424194464

I will use thoses assets for the shipwreck and the human settlements https://starlight-furnace.itch.io/exo-world-desolation-iso-map-pack

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/the-green-mile-gif-17328904180409510666

[blissful vortex]

https://tenor.com/view/do-it-you-can-gif-15523445

[haughty edge]

I will stop here for tonight, i'm so tired

There is an ultra pyro top left

Rank 2

[haughty edge]

I need an opinion from someone who did hexcrawl in the past

In the south of this map I want it to have a boreal forest... Should I just put thick forest on all tiles?

[inner portal]

I mean, maps like that are all just about iconography, so as long as you can read it it seems fine. you could have lil white tips to the trees, since boreal are usually in snowy environments.

[gritty marlin]

Another cool Cze & Peku scifi map: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lost-technology-137668501

[haughty edge]

I still can't believe i'm about to run a hexcrawl Lancer game '-'

The idea about the exploration phase is that... It count as a mission with infinite combat until the players tells their GM "Ok we get back to base"

The group can trigger combat duriong exploration, the fuirther they go the harder it get, enemies can even gain tiers, but until they manage their resources correctly they can go as far as they want

[inner portal]

Using timers and background clocks to mesure their pacing is perfectly reasonable.

In my NRfaW Act2 that I run, it's very similar, except all the "Exploration" is narrative events occuring across the map, and not specifically movement around the map.

[meager stream]

this one is kickass. I love how the czepeku maps have been getting more and more lancer friendly

[still matrix]

Anyone got a good map for a ship brawl?

Space ship specifically. Before I design something

[quaint flame]

A brawl in a ship or a brawl ofships?

[still matrix]

Got one for inside, now need one for ship brawl, though in the ADHD way of my brain it's for a lancer mission where they are fighting off pirates

[quaint flame]

Would any of these work?
#1216805351488356353 message

[rare river]

The last map I made for my campaign, it was in a arena for a king of the hill encounter, if it might help someone feel free to use it.

[still matrix]

Oh aye those are deffo gonna work!

[rose vine]

A coastal battery map with dimensions in the filename. Inspired by a gorgeous fantasy seaside fortress map I lost the source of

and 3 more - a cavern map full of geysers, a coastal road battle, and a desert train heist

(my maps are so large because I have an Atlas player and a Nelson player with maxed out AGI 😩 )

[haughty edge]

The annoying thing when you do Lancer maps

Or maybe i'm just too picky myself

They are hard to scale because you play as mechs

I think you did a good job xD

[rose vine]

Thank you! My players seem to be enjoying them

[pearl wedge]

Do you have these maps with no hexes. I love them but just not at these sizes

[rose vine]

Sure thing, let me export them without in Dungeondraft

There you go

[candid knot]

Does Inkarnate have pirate/scrap/wreackage and stuff for rubbled buildings? Or does any other map maker have that by default?
I have been looking for a pirate base in the jungle with multiple buildings and as I haven't found anything I guess I will have to learn to do it myself 😄

[quaint flame]

Rn the sci fi assets include corporate, industrial, spaceships, cyberpunk houses, martian terrain and some lovecraftian alien stuff

It might have some pirate regalia in the fantasy assets which can be slapped on top of say industrial but it lacks proper militant structures

[inner portal]

it's ok, I once made 4 full 30x30 maps that were linked and told my players to find a way to cross it

[mental fulcrum]

what scifi assets are you using for dungeondraft?

[mental fulcrum]

same actually! this is a really cool map; where did you find the assets?

looks like im the odd one out here making maps with the lancer map creation tool

[golden oriole]

What's the sitrep?

[quaint flame]

Inkarnate regional assets

[haughty edge]

Inkarnate following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It1HzRSbG_Q&t.

I plan to make different ones, if they decide to go north it will be desert/dry, South Icy and Artic

[quaint flame]

High speed mechs still flourish on small maps. They are still masterful at repositioning and getting out of range, cover, los and onto objectives. A high speed mech imo is more functional on a smaller/medium size map than a large map

[last lichen]

it pops up every once in a while :)

[gaunt atlas]

https://2minutetabletop.com/sci-fi-futuristic-map-assets/
https://2minutetabletop.com/sci-fi-building-assets/
https://2minutetabletop.com/sci-fi-modular-interiors/

https://cartographyassets.com/assets/23146/tygerscifi/

I use these for sci fi assets, but also some modern/Cyperpunk ones

Does anybody have general tips for battlemaps/combat encounters?

[late frost]

Make a rough draft first.
Starting with a blank hex grid and filling in/highlighting zones, terrain, obstructions, etc. greatly speeds up the final map making and helps clarify the vision for the encounter.

[mental fulcrum]

thank you!

[mental fulcrum]

it was a custom sitrep; the party had to fight to open some blast doors on a space port while simultaneously finding the quay their ride off that molten rock was hiding. controls to the blast door at the top of the map, quays at the bottom

[mental fulcrum]

how do you plan on dealing with a party with mechs that go different speeds? I want to do a hexcrawl for my next mission too, but half the party can go 12 spaces a turn without expending resources, and the other half max out at 6 a turn

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-the-neat-part-you-dont-invincible-gif-27194608

[mental fulcrum]

you mean I shouldnt be paralyzing myself over inconsequential details?

then what the hell am I doing here??

merde

[haughty edge]

It's more like

You shouldn't bother thinking about it

Your PC move as a squad

And there is no such things as scooting

Else I hope your player enjoy going alone in a combat

I know I won't bother myself with it except if the team is entirely for that gimmick

For example everyone flying

You don't want exploration to be punishing or rewarding for some kind of gameplay.

In dnd term, there is no point to reward ranger and rogue for exploration while making it harder for the rest of the party, so you cut it out all together because else it's fun for half the party, and the other half will feel dragged

[gritty marlin]

I have a feeling a few of these may be good for Lancer: https://www.patreon.com/posts/oceans-2-release-137975598

[half copper]

Hey any good resources on how to make maps for lancer for absolute Dumbo's such as myself?

[last lichen]

||steal everything from this channel||

[gritty marlin]

The above might help?

[half copper]

Thank you 💜

[mental fulcrum]

most if not all of us are using paid softwares. off the top of my head there is:
inkarnate
dungeondraft
photoshop
the lancer map creation tool

but most if not all of these programs rely on something called assets. we are essentially buying stickers and magazine cuttings to make very nice collages

[half copper]

oh I draw most of my maps myself, I was looking more for layout things etc so that my players aren't getting put in the bin ^^"

[mental fulcrum]

1. then im jealous of your talent, 2) bin them anyway. imo you need great obstacles to really show off your power fantasy

[thorny reef]

how big should my maps be?

[mental fulcrum]

the size of maps is dependent on the sitrep; do you have any in mind?

[thorny reef]

holdout

ive done 25 by 25 and the objective is on the left but i won't have enemies come from there since it is very close

how do i work out the grid size?

i heard there is a way to do it by knowing how many hexs your map has but i don't know how

[mental fulcrum]

made in the lancer map creation tool, right?

the grid size should be 76

background offset should be x 38, y 2

those are just numbers to memorize

and personally I turn the foundry hex grid to translucent so that there is no double overlay which bothers me

[thorny reef]

ok thanks :>

[thorny reef]

is these for any map made in lancer map creation tool?

[mental fulcrum]

yes, just make sure that the hexagon style is set to regular

the roll20 hexagon style is entirely incompatible with foundry; their hexes have different aspect ratios

[thorny reef]

ok :>

[haughty edge]

OSR taught me how to make sidewalks

[haughty edge]

I will try tofinish it tomorrow

Just need cover idea for a town other than car or rubbles

[lament thicket]

Hastily deployed sandbags by the city police, trees, fountains, statues, wrecks of previous mechs, smaller buildings (like an info kiosk or a block of restrooms in a park)

just as ideas off the dome

[azure tree]

Portable toilets. Deploy dangerous terrain in Burst 1 if destroyed 👍🏻

Perhaps not hazardous to your mech, excactly, but lethal to your reputation.

[slim schooner]

A sorry for not responding, stress consumed me-

[haughty edge]

It's alright

I just won't be able to help you atm

[slim schooner]

ye dw, managed to make the maps myself in time with the power of drinking too much caffeine

Here would be the maps i quickly cobbled together for the Bossfight! (The second one is the skyscraper falling, i made it a moving tile in foundry to have it look as if the players/boss are sliding down the building. Last one is the inside of the warehouse, after the glass ceiling broke open in the middle)

[plain ravine]

What did you use to make these? I plan to make maps for my own campaign and I’m looking for resources

[slim schooner]

Inkarnate!

[haughty edge]

You made a pretty good job damn

[rare river]

Hi I would like feedback for the map I just made for a recon sitrep I fear it might be too crowded. ( the objectives are the weirds ripples on the ground)

[haughty edge]

I think there is nothing better to do than things going outside the maps

It make it feel like it's part of the world

[azure tree]

While I don't have any mechanical/tactical feedback to give, as I lack the knowledge, I'd say perhaps changing the brightness of inaccessible terrain (the outside walls and the land masses inside - provided they're not climbable) would improve legibility. Also, obviously you may feel differently, but I'd consider making the main grid a bit thinner/more transparent, provided your other markings are clear.

Am I right to assume you're going to use some layout to mark your objectives, zones and terrain?

[rare river]

Sorry for the late answer, thanks for the feedback about the brightness it does help! and for the grid I used a dungeondraft patern and I don't know how to change the thin of the grid. What I usually do is to make the vtt grid transparent after I aligned both.

[azure tree]

Glad my suggestion worked for you! And definitely, uploading gridless and adjusting it in VTT sounds like a plan.

[haughty edge]

I love how making City maps I just throw rectancles everywheres and see what's sticks

[haughty edge]

This one will be for a tug of war

[haughty edge]

That one to prevent ennemies from pushing a bomb

[slim schooner]

REAL

[torn gazelle]

I hate making city maps for that exact reason.

[haughty edge]

I think its fine

It is the equivalent of the chunk of trees you have to make for a forest map

[torn gazelle]

Im running an AC campaign, so theres so many urban environments. Hell, my players get to see the Wall tomorrow and guess what - its more squares

[torn gazelle]

I prefer those tbh. Trees are a more interesting shape than various rectangles of different heights

[quaint flame]

I tend to do the same thing with all my maps tbh

But more along the lines of large objects with the main thing of routes and sightlines

[haughty edge]

I like streets b ecause there is a good CQB vibes on it because you can't really pass thoses coverds

Forest meanwhile... I feel like it's about putting softcover everywhere

[mental fulcrum]

how tall do you make your buildings?

[haughty edge]

Around heigh 5 or 6

[mental fulcrum]

hows that working out? I ask because I tend to make my buildings pretty tall, but lancer technically only has obstacle sizes up to 4

[haughty edge]

Mark them as building instead of hard cover

[haughty edge]

The small on in the middle will be size 3

[mental fulcrum]

whats the difference between hard cover and being a building?

[haughty edge]

Its hardcover with extra steps

Prevents the map from having massive hard cover zones

Without confusing too much

At least its my interpretation

[torn gazelle]

My issue with streets is that Inkarnate doesnt do them well at all and I dont want to handbuild a bunch of streets every week

Otherwise yeah, the vibe is great

[torn gazelle]

Do you happen to have a page for me for that rule? Sounds tremendously useful xD

[haughty edge]

There isnt

[haughty edge]

I just think it's best to prevent having maps having massive red areas

Everywhere

[latent obsidian]

Opinions on an out of mech starting zone?

[gritty marlin]

hm this looks like it's a fine map for pilot exploration, maybe less so for mech combat?

unless scale is different

[latent obsidian]

I was thinking on making half size characters 1 square and size 1 characters 4 squares, do you think that's too small scale?

I'm using owlbear at the moment

[gritty marlin]

I mean are you actually running mech combat on this map or is it just for pilot exploration

if it's mech combat, do you have an objective in mind?

like what is the source of conflict requiring nitty-gritty mech placement

[latent obsidian]

The idea is the characters are breaking out of jail, finding their mechs and then getting to a ship that they have to defend while it boots up and maps predetermined coordinates. The mission is going to end on an asteroid for some zero-g combat until reinforcements arrive

[gritty marlin]

okay so on this map, are mechs present? Or are the players just working their way out of jail?

[latent obsidian]

this is the jail cell area they have to get out of, next scene will have the mechs

[gritty marlin]

Because in general, I recommend pilots on foot do stuff using the Pilot Narrative rules and not Tactical Combat

okay cool

then my rec is "don't run tactical combat with pilots on foot, use Pilot Narrative Rules instead"

See p. 48 of the Lancer Core book

it'll keep things smoother

[latent obsidian]

I agree, I'm looking forward to using triggers and the varying skill checks to add some feeling of pressure on the players

[latent obsidian]

Thank you very much

[gritty marlin]

great then alright, having the map be 1 square = 1 pilot space sounds fine to me in terms of scale

it'll likely be very loose movement/positioning. The map will mostly just be a visual aid, but that can be helpful on its own

[latent obsidian]

Thank you very much, I'm planning an introductory one shot so I'm interested in wowing my players with the system first and if they like it I'll make better maps

[gritty marlin]

I'll mention #1211781091577438339 too for more pilot-scale, freeform narrative-focused maps

[latent obsidian]

You're very kind thank you

[haughty edge]

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-bocchi-the-rock-stroke-gif-27021824

The power of adding small details on the map

My priority is to make a map that make sense to live in

[still matrix]

Zo I've decided somethinghellish for the LL2 final fight for my campaign the fight is to take place inside a concert hall. Which means I now need to design one.

[haughty edge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArFDY3ossmo

I still can't get over how amazing Warframe 1999 is

[mental fulcrum]

I recently played the lancer tactics game, and I dear god the LL0 fights are brutal

[quaint flame]

Cover can be any size you want

Size 200 hard cover is possible

Tom lancer will not kick your door down and tear up your map if you use a map with a size 200 object

[golden olive]

saw this on tumblr

[languid ingot]

Cool map but at the same time who needs this many pipes!??

[bronze orbit]

Metal pipe falling sound effect

[umbral plinth]

thats a nihei looking place if ive ever seen one

[pearl wedge]

Hello everyone, I am in need of a forest or jungle map that is suitable for a defense style mission. If anyone has something that might fit the bill, please feel free to share.

[bronze orbit]

By Kafeezombie (I think)

By WrithingBrat

By little_cow

[haughty edge]

If you want I either have this for you Or this maybe

(If you use them feel free to give me a feedback

[pearl wedge]

Thank you very much.

[pearl wedge]

Thank you, if I use one I will make sure to share the story.

My lancers have been running a counter piracy mission for HA and this will be the culminating showdown.

[haughty edge]

[pearl wedge]

Do you have the foundry settings for this right most map?

[haughty edge]

Let me find them...

[pearl wedge]

Do you happen to have the foundry settings for this map?

[haughty edge]

For the second map it should be this

It should be the same for the two of them

I made them using this template

[bronze orbit]

Does that help you ?

Rough translation :
hex column - even
Background image scale : 1
Grid size : 59 (pixel I think)
Offset : x-32 y-1

Dimension : w2048 h1536

I also found the original one without my edit lol

And I told you a mistake, it was by NHP SHAKA, not Kaffeezombie.

[umbral plinth]

anyone got any military bases i could use for recon

[meager stream]

i made this recon map last week

[umbral plinth]

satellite dishes? exactly what i had in mind

thanks!

[earnest terrace]

Yo man what kind of markup is this? Function "region" on foundry vtt?

[meager stream]

I just drew them by hand in the top layer on inkarnate

Also all the height markings are elevation from zero since the whole map sloping upwards made it confusing

[haughty edge]

Warehouse

[haughty edge]

Forgot to share this

[rose vine]

Hey everyone, does anyone have a good map for a facility on a mountain peak? It can just be a facility in a rocky area but if it has snow that'd be extra nice

Double bonus points if it's like a radar or sensor site

[late frost]

What about a military base embedded into the peak of a mountain?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13d9SQiivPACT-nczN5VT9fhL2V-59RYr/view?usp=drivesdk

[rose vine]

That could work! Is it set up for hexes?

[late frost]

Absolutely, should fit a grid almost perfectly. I have to look up the settings, but first guess is 150px and whatever the later option is in the drop down list for Hex columns. When designed there was no grid offset, but that could have changed with foundry updates.

Confirmed, 150, hex column - even

here it is w/ Zones and lights and obstacles in Foundry.

[rose vine]

Thank you!

[pure dew]

yall got any maps for a oneshot along the lines of this?

[umbral geode]

What do you mean by "Along the lines of this"

I have a church I had players fight in thats for Nobles

[pure dew]

Pretty much that

Or a throne room or smth

[nocturne elbow]

ultra rainmaker that just puts down a hound and a wolfhound missile three times per round

idk

menacing

[pure dew]

Could you please send me?

[umbral geode]

This was made by me for a big wedding set piece

[still matrix]

ohhh I'm nicking that one.

[umbral geode]

Glad to hear that people like it

[pearl wedge]

Mech combat and true love. Beautiful

[last lichen]

same thing, really!

[pearl wedge]

lol

[inner portal]

I played my own map I made for Tomb of Delios and I was like

"Who the hell made this map so big????"

[sullen field]

Haven't shown off any maps in a bit, but wanted to share this one. It's mostly "done" now

[shrewd garnet]

"Anyone who doesn't want the brides to be married may cascade now"

[umbral geode]

Oh I did the classic

"Speak now or forever hold your peace"

and the doors crashed down

[formal path]

Hey, need help getting Battle Maps for Wallflower!
One thing is my group religiously uses Roll20 so just looking for maps to use (don’t need detail just needs to be effective!)

[amber blade]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dsxLA5G4BfwqygLeHXYNQ76FB7HBhCd7
Theres an entire google drive of community made maps, art assets, vtt layouts and more