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/atta...chmentid=11667
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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/atta...chmentid=11667
Last edited by ultrium; Nov 26th, '04 at 07:44 PM.
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Excellent... I will have my daughter name my grandchildren after you
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Excellent! I'll have MisterVimes' daughter name his grandchildren after you!
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What a cunning plan! I wish I'd thought of... HEY!Originally posted by Monolith
Excellent! I'll have MisterVimes' daughter name his grandchildren after you!
Mister Vimes
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"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" -- (Terry Pratchett, Night Watch )
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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...
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The sheet looks really good. One question though, which side is up?
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Hey, how come the tables in your nightclub are so much smaller than the tables in the HERO System Resource Kit? :)
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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.
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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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Last edited by ultrium; Nov 26th, '04 at 07:47 PM.
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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.
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if people do not like I will not do it again.
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Yeah, the pdf had kind of a weird effect. It opened alright but it took a while. Really ate the bandwidth.
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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
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Oh... y'know... spite.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?
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...
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?
Last edited by Delthrien; Feb 10th, '03 at 06:12 PM.
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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.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.
Here's part of our heroes' base.
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