Creating Maps with Tiles
Creating Maps with Tiles
Fantasy Grounds VTT comes preinstalled with a number of tile packs and images you can use to build maps. You can find these in the Assets window under Saz Asset Pack, Shockbolt Gamemasters Art Kit and Torstans Asset Pack.
NOTE: These may show up on Page 2 or more of your Assets window for Images.
Walk-through
It is recommended to start with Shockbolt Gamemasters Art Kit as it contains backgrounds, tiles, effect brushes and other features you may find useful.
Drag a background image over to a new Image
Open your Images window, and change your Group to Uncategorized (or another group of your choice).
Open your Assets window and switch to Images mode. Locate the Shockbolt Gamemasters Art Kit folder and go into Backgrounds.
Locate a background you like and drag it to your Images group. The result should look like this:
Place some Stone tiles
Click on the Shockbolt Gamemasters Art Kit breadcrumb navigation in the Assets window to return to that folder.
Navigate into Tiles and then Stone.
Switch your image toolbar into Layers - Stamp mode.
Drag a tile into the Graphic Asset window and preset the default size in grids.
Click anywhere on the background Cave-Floor to place a stone corridor tile.
Immediately after it is placed, it will remain selected. From here you can:
drag it around with the mouse, resize it using the drag handles, or rotate it using the rotation handle.
use the keyboard arrow keys to move it by grid squares, Shift+left-arrow to rotate left, shift+right-arrow to rotate right, shift+up-arrow to scale up, and shift+down-arrow to scale down.
Now that you have defined the default scale of your tiles, any new tile you drag onto the map will adopt the same settings. Drag directly to the map to build additional parts of your map.
New tiles can be preset with Line of Sight (LoS). Turning that on after adding several tiles reveals how the LoS behavior will act.
