The problem I am having is that it is way to big for me to print on my computer at home or at work. I have tried changing the .png file to .jpg,.bmp,and .tiff. It will not let me save it as a .gif. I cannot get my paint, or paint shop pro to handle the file.
Has anyone else here worked with the map to cut it down to smaller sizes? I would really love to print out a color copy of this map and place it on my gaming room wall at home. I even have plans to take a picture of me with the map once I am done.
Thanks,
Stone Marshall
aka Multizar
Anyway, you might use The Gimp (http://gimp.org/windows/) for editing/format change.
The problem I am having is that it is way to big for me to print on my computer at home or at work. I have tried changing the .png file to .jpg,.bmp,and .tiff. It will not let me save it as a .gif. I cannot get my paint, or paint shop pro to handle the file.
Paste it in the first cell of either Excel or Open Office Calc and print it that way. This is a quick and dirty method without any overlap of the image.
The Gimp, as stated above, can also be used to "cut up" a larger image and resave the map in sections. Here's how:
1. Load the image.
2. In the Menus, click on Image --> Scale Image
3. To the right of the Width and Height settings is a chain. Click on it to “break the chain”. This will allow you to set the Width and Height independently of each other. The default is in pixels but I like to change it to inches.
4. The small image of the map is in the window. There is a square that represents the “new” canvas. Move the image around to a new position. Click on Resize.
5. You will now have a small section of the original map. Save it under a new filename and repeat the steps above until the entire map is saved in smaller printable sections. Be sure to overlap the images so your printout can be easily taped together.
--Ray.
Is not very canonic, but is based on the Thibault Sarlat's maps
Andrea Francolini
^___^ si mine work ... i hope you will appreciate. I have made many diffrent version and now you can see the old one.
Is not very canonic, but is based on the Thibault Sarlat's maps
Andrea Francolini
It looks like you did it in Hex Mapper. Do you still have all of the original files from before you made the combined map?
--Ray.
^___^ si mine work ... i hope you will appreciate. I have made many diffrent version and now you can see the old one.
Is not very canonic, but is based on the Thibault Sarlat's maps
Andrea Francolini
I like your map very much!
I also have some question: in the "west" map, in the north side of the map, I can see "Oceano di ghiaccio" (meaning "Ice ocean" for not-Italian-speaking people) and "Isole di ghiaccio" (translated: "Ice isles).
Near Isole di ghiaccio there is an island, quite big, with a capital city (red one) and some towers... And just west of it, there is a tundra like area, with a capital too, and some large cities also...
I'm curious about these lands: is there a reference of them in the vaults of Pandius? Does someone evolved two house-kingdoms?
Could you pls post here some reference to these cold lands?
Maybe I could bring there my PCs...
Andrea
. Has anyone here broken the large files down into managable pictures and if so could I talk someone into emailing me the files? My email addy is [email]multizar2006@yahoo.com[/email]. I would appreciate any and all help. I really want a large full map of mystara for my gaming room 
Andrea
I like your map very much!
I'm curious about these lands: is there a reference of them in the vaults of Pandius? Does someone evolved two house-kingdoms?
Could you pls post here some reference to these cold lands?
Maybe I could bring there my PCs...
Ciao Giovanni,
the first one is the canonic reign of Frosthaven ( giants ), while the second is only a specific creation of my campaign.
Andrea
Ciao Giovanni,
the first one is the canonic reign of Frosthaven ( giants ), while the second is only a specific creation of my campaign.
Andrea
Frosthaven... nice... is it in any canon material? I can't see any reference to it in my Poor Wizard's Almanacs (I,II & III)...
By the way... do you have any material about the second one? If you have something, why don't you senti it to me, also by e-mail (by clicking on my nickname)?
Frosthaven... nice... is it in any canon material? I can't see any reference to it in my Poor Wizard's Almanacs (I,II & III)...
By the way... do you have any material about the second one? If you have something, why don't you senti it to me, also by e-mail (by clicking on my nickname)?
Frosthaven appears in CM1 Test of the Warlords. It's an arctic land populated by some 6000 Frost Giants...
hi Multizar, how big ? i can save the original map in a different format ) maybe jpg ? ) but i'm not sure that your email account can receive it.
Andrea
I am thinking if you could split it up in the 50 megs per picture area I should be able to open it at work and you do not need to worry about my email. I have a 1 Gig account :D
I am thinking if you could split it up in the 50 megs per picture area I should be able to open it at work and you do not need to worry about my email. I have a 1 Gig account :D
It would probably be easier for Andrea to just email you the original Hexmapper bmps. That way he won't have to spend hours cutting up the pngs. I believe he said that he still had them.
Andrea, If you do.... send them my way too. derek_cleric yahoo com.
--Ray.
I'll let you know as soon as i can.
By
Andrea
I was wondering if you have had any luck in splitting up the map files yet?
No rush, I was just bored at work and surfing the internet....:D
kal
When I split them, I'll use the smaller of A4 or Letter for paper size. I don't know which is smaller. [Edit: Hmm, just realized, paper size will depend on the DPI (dots per inch) of the printer being used. What's a safe set of numbers for pixels for page width and height for common color printers today? ie, should I make each section 1200x1600 pixels?[Edit Edit: I've arbitralily chosen 3200x2400 since with 1600x1200 it would be 84 pieces of paper for just the west... the map would be 8 feet tall (2.5m!) Together, all the split files are 58MB in size. I'm trying to find room for them on a webserver somewhere.]]
In case anyone is interested, the gimp-script is located here:
http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~dtauriai/rpg/split-image-xy.scm
[Edit: And now for the script I really used; by pixel size instead of by row/column numbers]:
http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~dtauriai/rpg/split-image-xy-bypixels.scm
The original splitting script (only y rows) is here:
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-user/2000-March/000951.html
and it's not without bugs.
takes a jpg or other RGB image and makes gifs (not bad in this case since the color-depth isn't big).you'll need gimp (http://www.gimp.org), and you'll have to put the script in your scripts directory (left as an excersize for the end user).
You're probably better off taking the files on a CD to your local Kinkos or other friendly office copy-center and spending the extra money to print a few poster-sized images.
P.S. also note that this map seems to be set in the future (beyond WOTI): not only is Alfheim ruined, but Ylarum is no longer a desert. It would be nice if we had a map like this where only cannon material was shown, and unexplored territory was either blank or just the terrain, so that players could empire-build.
Of course, 39MB is still bigger than what I'd like to personally host permanently, so if anyone knows of an image upload site that can host unlimited images less than 800KB per image, and has a way to load multiple images at once (instead of doing it one hundred eighty times), please let me know.
I've got the western half up on a site now. Here's an example. The images range from 00 to 89, but there's limited bandwidth, so don't be surprised if someone else beats you to the image...
http://www.image-upload.net/files/6052/Mystara_west_1200x1600_33.png
Edit: Added Skothar's Hemisphere. Same 00-89 range on names
http://www.image-upload.net/files/6052/Mystara_east_1200x1600_49.png
:invasion: The maps look good...a few mistakes here and there but overall real good. I printed them out at work at 47%. Thats still 180 pages. I also converted the pics to adobe acrobat. Its now about 30 megs.
I am working on some of the areas at home, such as the ruined alfhiem and yalarium to bring them back to 1000 AC standard. Once I am done I will reprint those pics and then begin working on pasting the files together.
Once all that is complete I will make a wall sized picture of the map and post it here to show everyone what happens when mystara takes over :D
My girlfriend just rolls her eyes whenever she hears the word "map" now...:heehee
Of course, 39MB is still bigger than what I'd like to personally host permanently, so if anyone knows of an image upload site that can host unlimited images less than 800KB per image, and has a way to load multiple images at once (instead of doing it one hundred eighty times), please let me know.
Try www.photobucket.com, they have a tool called flock that allows you to upload multiple images at once - not used it myself but it may help.
Regards
Gary
the map was built for my own campaign, so it's diffrerent from the canonical.
Multziar send me a photo after that !!! and say sorry to your girfriend by me.
KAL