Lurking in the corner like a cat. Watching with interest. Extremely curious about how the famously isometric Castle Ravenloft maps in Curse of Strahd will translate.
So, I know this thread has been finished for a while, but I am looking at purchasing the whole bundle, and the maps are a great incentive to do so, since I am not the least bit artistic outside of storytelling.
My question: Has anyone tried to show put these maps up on a television using Google Chrome Cast? If so, which device did you use? Was it from a browser? Was it using the cast screen option? Most importantly, how did it look? Finally, were you able to get it to cast without any type of border, if not, how wide was the border?
Lurking in the corner like a cat. Watching with interest. Extremely curious about how the famously isometric Castle Ravenloft maps in Curse of Strahd will translate.
These would be really great, but there doesn't seem to be any source material for it.
My question: Has anyone tried to show put these maps up on a television using Google Chrome Cast? If so, which device did you use? Was it from a browser? Was it using the cast screen option? Most importantly, how did it look? Finally, were you able to get it to cast without any type of border, if not, how wide was the border?
My group has embraced the Chromecast so fondly that we use two of them. I use it to cast maps and NPC/monster images from D&D Beyond to, and another player made his own initiative/hit point/condition tracker that he can cast to another monitor. It's a little clunky in that I have to click up to four times just to cast something and unless I use two different browsers that can cast (like Opera), I can't cast to more than one at a time. It's also not great for showing maps simply because I don't have any fog-of-war functionality, but eventually I'll get something to facilitate that like Maptools or something, I don't know.
I also plan, eventually, to build a table with a short-throw projector so that I can cast maps to it with an interactive fog-of-war that detects miniature placements (yes, this is actually possible right now and it's not even hugely expensive!), but that's awhile off :D
Another thing to remember is left clicking the map, opens the full resolution version, that can then be right clicked and "open in new tab". It will be huge. If you just right click the one in the compendium and do "open in new tab" then you will not get the full version, you will get the compressed version
A heads up here since this thread's been a mainstay - all player versions of maps are now added everywhere that we have them available.
Thanks for the feedback and enjoy!
Sorry to revive an old thread, but I've just arrived in DnDBeyond, and I've bought the Essentials Bundle. I'm looking at the maps in Dragon of Icespire Peak, and all I can get is a jpg that's about 44dpi. The squares are meant to be one inch, aren't they? Am I doing something wrong? Full image size is 2888x1838 pixels
A heads up here since this thread's been a mainstay - all player versions of maps are now added everywhere that we have them available.
Thanks for the feedback and enjoy!
Sorry to revive an old thread, but I've just arrived in DnDBeyond, and I've bought the Essentials Bundle. I'm looking at the maps in Dragon of Icespire Peak, and all I can get is a jpg that's about 44dpi. The squares are meant to be one inch, aren't they? Am I doing something wrong? Full image size is 2888x1838 pixels
I don’t believe the maps were designed with the intent of being able to print them out in a size where the squares are an inch square. The maps in the books certainly aren’t that size. That said, are you opening the maps in their own tab? Make sure you first click on the map, so that the image viewer overlay pops up, then right click on that and choose open in new tab. That gets you the highest resolution map file.
I don’t believe the maps were designed with the intent of being able to print them out in a size where the squares are an inch square. The maps in the books certainly aren’t that size. That said, are you opening the maps in their own tab? Make sure you first click on the map, so that the image viewer overlay pops up, then right click on that and choose open in new tab. That gets you the highest resolution map file.
Ah, yes, so I gather from further reading. A shame, but I suppose we get what we get.
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D&D Beyond FoundersA heads up here since this thread's been a mainstay - all player versions of maps are now added everywhere that we have them available.
Thanks for the feedback and enjoy!
Lurking in the corner like a cat. Watching with interest. Extremely curious about how the famously isometric Castle Ravenloft maps in Curse of Strahd will translate.
So, I know this thread has been finished for a while, but I am looking at purchasing the whole bundle, and the maps are a great incentive to do so, since I am not the least bit artistic outside of storytelling.
My question: Has anyone tried to show put these maps up on a television using Google Chrome Cast? If so, which device did you use? Was it from a browser? Was it using the cast screen option? Most importantly, how did it look? Finally, were you able to get it to cast without any type of border, if not, how wide was the border?
These would be really great, but there doesn't seem to be any source material for it.
My group has embraced the Chromecast so fondly that we use two of them. I use it to cast maps and NPC/monster images from D&D Beyond to, and another player made his own initiative/hit point/condition tracker that he can cast to another monitor. It's a little clunky in that I have to click up to four times just to cast something and unless I use two different browsers that can cast (like Opera), I can't cast to more than one at a time. It's also not great for showing maps simply because I don't have any fog-of-war functionality, but eventually I'll get something to facilitate that like Maptools or something, I don't know.
I also plan, eventually, to build a table with a short-throw projector so that I can cast maps to it with an interactive fog-of-war that detects miniature placements (yes, this is actually possible right now and it's not even hugely expensive!), but that's awhile off :D
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Another thing to remember is left clicking the map, opens the full resolution version, that can then be right clicked and "open in new tab". It will be huge. If you just right click the one in the compendium and do "open in new tab" then you will not get the full version, you will get the compressed version
Couldn’t find a player map for Rrakkma, the regular Rrakkma map is present on the website, not found on mobile app.
Sorry to revive an old thread, but I've just arrived in DnDBeyond, and I've bought the Essentials Bundle. I'm looking at the maps in Dragon of Icespire Peak, and all I can get is a jpg that's about 44dpi. The squares are meant to be one inch, aren't they? Am I doing something wrong? Full image size is 2888x1838 pixels
I don’t believe the maps were designed with the intent of being able to print them out in a size where the squares are an inch square. The maps in the books certainly aren’t that size. That said, are you opening the maps in their own tab? Make sure you first click on the map, so that the image viewer overlay pops up, then right click on that and choose open in new tab. That gets you the highest resolution map file.
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Ah, yes, so I gather from further reading. A shame, but I suppose we get what we get.
Any word on high-res versions of Tales from the Yawning Portal maps?