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Post by bravesirkevin on Mar 29, 2015 19:05:54 GMT -9
Been quite a long while since I last officially released a new product, with last year being particularly demanding, but I've kept working at stuff whenever I've been able to find time and now I'm in a position to actually start releasing some of the stuff that's been sitting on my hard drive waiting to be completed. The first of many new sets, is a really great outdoor tiles set. This set is quite versatile and has a lot of awesome features, all of which are detailed in the video below: Now that you've given that a watch, if you want to grab yourself a copy, you can find it at Papercraft Dungeon and RPGnow, for the very low price of only $2.99!
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Post by flockofthese on Apr 16, 2015 6:24:21 GMT -9
Nice. I really like it. I've never seen a PDF with buttons and stuff before. The new version of Adobe Reader can't seem to handle it though. At least it can't for me. Works great in PDF-XChange viewer though. My only complaint is that its a bit yellower than I would prefer, but I think that may just be my printer. There is usually not much difference in what I see on my monitor with what prints out, but in this case my prints are definitely more yellow than whats on my screen. Thats all minor though. I'm really picky when it comes to grassy tiles, I think. I could never find one that seemed right to me. This one I do like though. I'm going to be using it.
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Post by flockofthese on Apr 17, 2015 13:06:42 GMT -9
Nevermind about the color thing. Nothing is printing right anymore. I'm thinking I need a new printer.
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Post by bravesirkevin on Apr 29, 2015 6:18:55 GMT -9
Nice. I really like it. I've never seen a PDF with buttons and stuff before. The new version of Adobe Reader can't seem to handle it though. At least it can't for me. Works great in PDF-XChange viewer though. My only complaint is that its a bit yellower than I would prefer, but I think that may just be my printer. There is usually not much difference in what I see on my monitor with what prints out, but in this case my prints are definitely more yellow than whats on my screen. Thats all minor though. I'm really picky when it comes to grassy tiles, I think. I could never find one that seemed right to me. This one I do like though. I'm going to be using it. Thanks! Not sure why it's not working in your version of Acrobat Reader. It's worked fine in every version I've tested it in. Is anyone else having this problem?
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Post by flockofthese on May 3, 2015 10:27:54 GMT -9
For the record, its Adobe Acrobat Reader DC that i'm having issue with. It actually seems to just work really slowly, but when I zoom to 100, thats when It really gets crashy. But then I tried disabling dual graphics, and now it just works slow. None of the crashy stuff anymore. But slow is fine. I mostly use PDF XChange anyway, so I didn't test really throughly. Its not exactly uncommon for dual graphics to cause weird issues though.
Now on to the color thing... My printer died. I just got another one. I use Amazon instead of the department store this time, so I was able to get much better printer for my budget. I printed out a meadow sheet, and it didn't have the yellow problem. So it seems that the extra yellow color was in fact a problem with my printer and not your work. You actually seem to have gotten a really good balance to the green. At least on my new printer its got enough yellow to not look fake, and dark enough to not look really cartoony.
And lastly, a couple suggestions. consider them as nothing more than that. they are not problems to be fixed. The pieces have this darker spot on them that looks a little repetitious if you don't have lots of extras added. It would be nice to have a plain square without that darker area just to mix it up. Also, some dried blood add ons or explosion craters. Those would make the set a little less kid friendly though.
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Post by bravesirkevin on May 6, 2015 12:53:25 GMT -9
And lastly, a couple suggestions. consider them as nothing more than that. they are not problems to be fixed. The pieces have this darker spot on them that looks a little repetitious if you don't have lots of extras added. It would be nice to have a plain square without that darker area just to mix it up. Also, some dried blood add ons or explosion craters. Those would make the set a little less kid friendly though. There were actually quite a few extras that I landed up leaving out just because there were already over a hundred layers on each page, and that's part of why everything goes so slowly. A lot of those features will show up in the add-ons that I have planned for the set. Next set I plan to release in a week or two will be a dungeon one, and the first meadow add-on (which is already halfway done) should come a few weeks after that. That add-on doesn't have dried blood or craters but I think it will immediately make the set a million times more useful and interesting
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Post by flockofthese on May 7, 2015 9:00:58 GMT -9
Oh man! why do you have to go and say something like that! You tell me its going to make it a million times more useful, but your not going to go into detail? At least tell me if I should wait to make my master boards. I just picked up a bunch of poster board at the dollar store for them. Im perfectly happy using them for something else right now, and then getting more when you release the add on, but I gotta know which way to go.
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Post by bravesirkevin on May 11, 2015 21:30:56 GMT -9
The add-on sets are going to consist of additional tiles that add geographical features. With each release the possibilities for different boards will increase exponentially and the first one coming is definitely going to give a lot of awesome options! My advice to you is to make something now and then make something completely different when the add-on comes out. You could always make a big master board now and then print the add-on as tiles that you can lay on-top of that for a really flexible layout.
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Post by flockofthese on May 13, 2015 2:08:22 GMT -9
Okay, thanks for the info. I had actually planned on making a just plain grass masterboard, and then laying out option on top just like you said. I just wanted to wait and make sure you weren't coming out with some system of interlocking the tiles, or something that would trump a masterboard.
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Post by bravesirkevin on May 15, 2015 8:30:49 GMT -9
I had lots of plans for interlocks, but after extensive discussions with people, I realised that most folks either used whatever system they were already using or didn't use one at all. I think it was Tom of Fat Dragon who basically just stuck his tiles to foam core and stuck toothpicks into it to hold the pieces together, and that seemed like such an efficient solution. OldSchoolDM told me he basically just lays the tiles down and covers them with a sheet of clear plexiglass... another extremely efficient solution. I kinda realised that I could spend hundreds of hours and come up with some clever way of holding the things together, but it would just be a ton of work for the guy building the set and he'd probably not bother when there are much easier ways of doing it, so I skipped that.
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