1" hex battle grid pdf file

[ultrium]

I have been playing with illustrator lately. here is a 1' hex grid pdf file. you can print it out and make your own battle mat.

http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11667

[MisterVimes]

Excellent... I will have my daughter name my grandchildren after you

[Monolith]

Excellent! I'll have MisterVimes' daughter name his grandchildren after you! :)

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by Monolith
Excellent! I'll have MisterVimes' daughter name his grandchildren after you! :)

What a cunning plan! I wish I'd thought of... HEY!

[Delthrien]

I've also used Illustrator to generate hex grids for pbem games. Saved as a GIF, they're easy enought to edit and update... And they're low in calories, too!

attached is a sample...

Charlie

[Edsel]

The sheet looks really good. One question though, which side is up?

[mattingly]

Hey, how come the tables in your nightclub are so much smaller than the tables in the HERO System Resource Kit? :)

[dbsousa]

Campaign Cartographer (www.profantasy.com) lets you fill any closed shape with a hex grid. It requires a little math to make them 2meter hexes, but do it once and every map you draw will be to HERO scale.

[ultrium]

Here is a different mat. The hexes are digitalize abit. This allows them to fit in a 3m x 3m or 10ft x 10ft square. The advantage of this allows the GM to draw the adventures on normal graph paper.
http://64.123.171.226/1inchhexwithsquares.pdf

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[Monolith]

Well that was unusual. I never had a pdf open up in the middle of a message board before. I don't know if I liked that too much. :confused:

[ultrium]

if people do not like I will not do it again.

[Edsel]

Yeah, the pdf had kind of a weird effect. It opened alright but it took a while. Really ate the bandwidth.

[DarkGreen]

Thank goodness the tables are a reasonable size. My group was quite disappointed with the Resource Kit. One guy bought it and we spent some time laughing at the alternately ludicrously over and undersized objects (together on the same maps!), then swore no one else would waste the money.

Wasn't worthy of the Hero Games name, sorry :mad:

-DG

[Delthrien]

Originally posted by mattingly
Hey, how come the tables in your nightclub are so much smaller than the tables in the HERO System Resource Kit? :)

Oh... y'know... spite. :D

It just seemed that, in any restaurant/club I've ever been in, they've always gone for the "greatest number of chairs around the smallest available table" kind of thing. That, and I just couldn't picture myself sitting with friends around a cozy 2m diameter eating surface... :D

If anyone is interested, I still have the original Illustrator files I used to create that -- one is 16x22 hexes, the other is 33x47 hexes. I was primarily going for something that would fit on a screen all at once so people could see everything at a glance. Just drop me a line.

Actually, Ben (if that is your real name... ;) ), would something like this (the blank versions) be a suitable candidate for the Freebie section?

[bcholmes]

Originally posted by dbsousa
Campaign Cartographer (www.profantasy.com) lets you fill any closed shape with a hex grid. It requires a little math to make them 2meter hexes, but do it once and every map you draw will be to HERO scale.

I've been playing with SVG maps (scalable vector graphics) a lot lately. Not the fastest to create, but I like the stuff I'm able to do with it.

Here's (http://www.bcholmes.org/rpgs/guard/hq/lower_floor.svg) part of our heroes' base.

[bcholmes]

Originally posted by DarkGreen
Thank goodness the tables are a reasonable size. My group was quite disappointed with the Resource Kit.

I didn't like the way the GM's screen was folded. Gimme the old-fashioned "surround-screen" any day.

[Syberdwarf2]

I like the 1" hex maps that I've seen so far. However, my problem is that I need to have the hexes go completely to the edge. I for one don't have money to shell out for a large map sheet. I'd rather save my money for the books/supplements.
My goal is to have standard sheets ( 8.5" by 11") with hexes all the way to edge, that I can either run lots of copies of, or maybe just a few laminated copies that can be added together end to end.

anybody have anything that could help?

[ultrium]

Syberdwarf2 says

I like the 1" hex maps that I've seen so far. However, my problem is that I need to have the hexes go completely to the edge. I for one don't have money to shell out for a large map sheet. I'd rather save my money for the books/supplements.
My goal is to have standard sheets ( 8.5" by 11") with hexes all the way to edge, that I can either run lots of copies of, or maybe just a few laminated copies that can be added together end to end.

anybody have anything that could help?

I am confused. Is this not what you wanted?
Special note: be sure and turn off the expand or shrink options when you print out the pdf. If you do that, you will get perfect hexes.

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[Ben Seeman]

Originally posted by DarkGreen
Thank goodness the tables are a reasonable size. My group was quite disappointed with the Resource Kit. One guy bought it and we spent some time laughing at the alternately ludicrously over and undersized objects (together on the same maps!), then swore no one else would waste the money.

Wasn't worthy of the Hero Games name, sorry :mad:

-DG
Heh, well, thanks for letting me know all of my hard work was appreciated... although I had nothing to do with the maps. ;)

[Syberdwarf2]

Originally posted by ultrium
Syberdwarf2 says


I am confused. Is this not what you wanted?
Special note: be sure and turn off the expand or shrink options when you print out the pdf. If you do that, you will get perfect hexes.



I'd like to turn of the shrink/expand options, but have no idea how to do so.
:confused: :confused: :confused:

[ultrium]

I am assuming that you are using windows. When you press the print button, a dialog window like the one shown below should appear. Be sure that the check boxes in the red box are <b>un</b>check.

<img src="http://64.123.171.226/print.jpg">

[Agent X]

Originally posted by ultrium
I have been playing with illustrator lately. here is a 1' hex grid pdf file. you can print it out and make your own battle mat.

http://64.123.171.226/1inchhexes.pdf

Don't take this the wrong way... but I love you.

[Agent X]

Originally posted by Delthrien
I've also used Illustrator to generate hex grids for pbem games. Saved as a GIF, they're easy enought to edit and update... And they're low in calories, too!

attached is a sample...

Charlie

I love you too. :confused:

Now what am I supposed to do. I'm so torn. :(

[Delthrien]

Originally posted by Agent X
I love you too. :confused:

Now what am I supposed to do. I'm so torn. :(

Well, as the song says, "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with..." :cool:

Here's a blank version of the "night club" map...

Charlie

[Delthrien]

... Here's another version that uses larger hexes.

Both of the files are sized so that they should easily fit into most browser windows. I've been experimenting with setting them up as flash files (another export filter from Illustrator). It actually allows you to zoom in on the map as long as you have the Flash plug-in... something I discovered entirely by accident.

For those interested in the original Illustrator files, e-mail me and I'll send 'em on...

Charlie (Again)

[Syberdwarf2]

Originally posted by ultrium
I am assuming that you are using windows. When you press the print button, a dialog window like the one shown below should appear. Be sure that the check boxes in the red box are <b>un</b>check.

<img src="http://64.123.171.226/print.jpg">

I must be doing something wrong, or maybe I'm using the wrong version of windows. My Print Dialog screen doesn't look like this.
Also, I have Acrobat Reader. That's not the full version of Acrobat is it? Would that affect my options?

[ultrium]

<p>I used Acrobat reader version 5.1.0 9/17/2002 on Windows 2000. The computer is a different machine than the one that have the full version. When I press the button on the toolbar with a printer on it, the exact same dialog appears.</p> <p>I can only say is be sure you have the latest version of reader.</p><p>Also, I have acrobat reader on a linux machine. The print dialog looks different. but it the options to turn off the expand or shrink functions were available.</p><p>If you are still having problems, try this. When you press the print button, press the alt and prt screen buttons at the same time. That will copy a picture of the print dialog to the clip board. Then paste it in a graphic program. Paint will work. Attach it to the forums and let me see it.

[theskaven]

Hello peoples. The PDF that was linked to from the original post is now dead. Does anyone still have a copy of this? If so I'd very much like to see it.

Thanks!

[ultrium]

Hello peoples. The PDF that was linked to from the original post is now dead. Does anyone still have a copy of this? If so I'd very much like to see it.

Thanks!

Sorry it has been awhile, but here it is.