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Post by eddnic on Jan 1, 2011 22:06:35 GMT -9
Just made some simple dungeon tiles and come up with a new way to connect them. The secret is in something I call as H-tabs
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Post by eddnic on Jan 1, 2011 22:13:16 GMT -9
The H-tab is built from cardboard. It is an H-shape when looked from the side. Each side of the tab holds a dungeon tile (0.5cm thick foam board). On the surface, the H-tab has the texture of a passage way.
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Post by eddnic on Jan 1, 2011 22:15:45 GMT -9
The H-tab holds not very firmly, but firm enough for most gaming purposes. Also, it is easy to connect the dungeon tiles.
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Post by eddnic on Jan 1, 2011 22:26:47 GMT -9
This one is built from two 2x2 tiles, three 2x4 tiles and 5 H-tabs. The whole dungeon can be taken up without breaking down.
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Post by Tommygun on Jan 1, 2011 23:20:24 GMT -9
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Post by BilliamBabble Inked Adventures on Jan 2, 2011 6:51:09 GMT -9
Your tiles look great! Where are your walls from? I was had a similar problem - since I'm used to using thin card and overlapping pieces wasn't a problem, but they weren't holding firm. I ended up compromising with paper hole fasteners ( cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=billiambabble&action=display&thread=2447 ) Very slick looking tiles. Ace. Warhammer Quest used to use an H system like yours but they had whopping great plastic doors atop of them, and yours are better because the figure can stand in the doorway.
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Post by labrat on Jan 2, 2011 15:20:51 GMT -9
Nice design, I like these!
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Post by kiladecus on Jan 4, 2011 3:20:09 GMT -9
My ONLY criticism/suggestion is that your pieces are "half" tiles. I think you may be better off making the tiles a FULL square, or making the ones that are 2-wide two FULL-size squares. Don't get me wrong, I love the looks of these, but you can't have a figure end it's movement on a half-tile without it hanging over the edge, or sitting squarely on the two half-tiles. Do you understand what I am saying, or once again, I am not making myself clear? That is just MY opinion... and that doesn't amount to much...
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Post by eddnic on Jan 4, 2011 17:05:52 GMT -9
Thanks for your support! Just a few things to say:
1) the wall textures are from an old PC game (Might and Magic 2, to be exact). I convert the flat wall into something that looks like if it is viewed from the top by photoshop (shape transformation and then darken the lower side of the wall and lighten the upper side)
2) the half tiles are actually walls. My idea is to create simple tiles that have walls on all sides, with the walls occupying half squares only. When two tiles are brought together, the two walls would occupy one complete square. H-tabs are then used to combined them, and these H-tabs are also one complete square wide. The minis would end up standing on complete squares only.
I am now testing different textures and tile sizes. Hope to release the files shortly.
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Post by mruseless on Jan 7, 2011 15:02:34 GMT -9
Great ideas! You could start a side business selling these.
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Post by Parduz on Aug 8, 2011 2:22:31 GMT -9
Necrothreading this, just to ask if there's nothing available Tommygun: your link is no more working.
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Post by Tommygun on Aug 8, 2011 3:15:16 GMT -9
That's because Ebbles old web site is gone. If you are interested in my stuff, I could post something it my project area. Although it was made for a SciFi asteroid mine.
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Post by Parduz on Aug 8, 2011 4:20:26 GMT -9
That's because Ebbles old web site is gone. If you are interested in my stuff, I could post something it my project area. While i'm interested (or better, courious), i always feel a sense of "missing" when creativity goes lost in the bytes limbo due to a closed site. So, if you like and want it, yes, pls do it when you have spare time
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Post by eddnic on Aug 10, 2011 17:33:24 GMT -9
Just returned from a vacation! I will compile some files for the dungeon tiles and release them, hopefully soon.
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Post by monktaraz on Aug 17, 2011 10:20:17 GMT -9
GREAT STUFF!!! I LOVE IT
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Post by eddnic on Sept 12, 2011 23:55:42 GMT -9
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