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Halloween Royale [40x40]
Added 2023-09-21 20:27:57 +0000 UTCSpooky season is upon us fellow map mages! In celebration, here is a little something to help you with any holiday one shot plans. This map makes for a fun little boss area or a battle royale. What'll your party face here? Skelies and ghosts? Classic zombies? An army of candy corn people? Endless ghoulish fun awaits.
This set is available free to all patrons. Simply click on the link below and it will download like your usual zip packs. As usual, you'll find gridded, griddless, 200ppi, and 140ppi versions of all four variants.
Enjoy it! I'd love to hear what you're all cooking up for your tables this season.
Edit 9-22: Reupload of zip files with correctly compressed 200ppi versions
Comments
Hey there thank for the feedback! I have gone ahead and re-uploaded the zip with less compressed 200ppi files. This batch did appear to get a little extra compressed than usual in terms of quality. Mistakes like this do happen, but we can easily correct them. Some process context: the 200ppi files came about from folks wanting something friendlier dimension wise for Foundry and displaying on an irl table via digital means. If these files were intended for print use, I would be designing them from the ground up to be appropriate sized 1:1 for the best quality possible; 200ppi being not quite 1inch perfect squares for standard minis. They also would delivered as a pdf or psd, not a jpg. The 140ppi files were intended for the easiest drag and drop experience for Roll20 folks who don't want to spend time fussing with resizing issues. The QT reduction is a result of couple things: the main being yes, Patreon's upload limits. The other being tech bottlenecks on my end. When I started uploading my work here, I was running off a 2mbs upload/download connection...so you can imagine the nightmare it was trying to just get the zip files onto any hosting platform. Recently getting an internet upgrade took the average upload time of a pack from 4hours to 1hr. The other bottleneck being a very old computer which did not like large files. The process of saving 4 versions of 1 image for 10-14 images on average took 6+hrs purely from the software and processor chonking along. Thanks to everyone's support here and elsewhere, I've been able to make some major tech upgrades that take the process of file creation to upload down to about 3-4hrs total. It ain't perfect or pretty by any means, but it is a massive improvement to what the workflow looked like before. WebP is something slated as possibility for October's maps. However, adding extra time processing files is something I'm not a fan of at all. It isn't just a couple extra minutes on my end. If I do offer WebP what would be the best resolution/square dimensions for you as a dm? If I invest extra time in the filing process, I want to make sure I am providing the best compatible files. The majority of folks I chat with are very much still using typical 72dpi Roll 20 jpgs (and playing off 10yr old laptops that are lucky to boot up), so as a creator I just don't have the information right now on what other gamers prefer outside of the folks I already cater to. Having some solid feedback like that would be amazing both for myself and for all of my awsome Patrons so I can keep updated with how VTTs are rolling these days and provide the correct sizing and format assets they need...so they can get back to adventuring and not worry about the tech.
Sam Rabbitt
2023-09-22 22:08:24 +0000 UTCI noticed the 200 dpi files are considerably smaller than the 140 dpi despite being higher resolutions. I assume you crank down the QT % when exporting those so that you can keep the ZIP reasonable and within Patreon constraints? If so, I'd like to propose an alternative approach... Instead, it would be great to have separate downloads (I'm aware of Patron file size limits) with those 200pps as webp at QT 95. It's tighter than JPEG and the artifacts are far less noticeable at the same QT (you get a softness instead of block artifacts). A lot of creators have moved to WEBP for this reason. Yes, the Export is slower, but it is a vastly superior image format, especially at these higher resolutions. Plus, unlike JPG, it can do alpha., but when it's absent, it's tighter than JPG. Right now, it seems the 200 DPI than is lower quality than 140 DPI is essentially of no use to me. Even if I were printing maps, I'd want higher or at a minimum the same QT, not lower. If the whole reason this is being done is so that things can fit in a single Patreon-sized ZIP, I'd recommend instead to bifurcate them as the big map creators have done (Forgotten Adventures, Czepeku), or better yet, not use Patreon delivery at all 'cause it sucks. :-) Just a thought. Do with it as you will. But, I will say there's a reason this approach is becoming more and more commonplace...
Ryan Rogers
2023-09-22 15:49:43 +0000 UTCThose pumpkins look amazing!!!
Zalyn Schwartz
2023-09-21 20:42:13 +0000 UTC
