Thank you so much, I am a new dm trying to get into roll20 and this helped a lot! Even though parts of the UI changed a bit, after looking around I found it. Like the layers are now ate the bottom left of the screen and the new page icon looks slightly different and is more in the middle of the screen.
Just going to put this here in case anyone else had the issue I did. 1. I got the map at a good size but I wanted more grids so it would take the players a turn longer to cross from one end to the other. 2. I adjusted grid size like they outlined and got just what I wanted, however the map was now stretching beyond the boundary. 3. I went to page settings and doubled the page size to match the changes to the grid. Now everything is perfect!
I cannot effectively state how counter-intuitive Roll 20 is as a DMing system. I could see if adding special effects like lighting or line of sight needed multiple tutorials, but plopping a picture on a piece of grid paper should be simplicity itself.
Another useful trick is that even if you turn off the grid, you can still set units for whatever you like. Miles, milometers or light years. Useful for world maps and figuring out travel times.
FOR RECTANGULAR MAPS: Drag the corner so you don't deform the image, when you are happy with the size (1 cube = character size) go over to your "Pages" section & hover over the page you are editing, click the Settings Gear symbol. Here you can change the width/height of the grid (via "rows"). You can also change the background color! (instead of boring white) Cheers! 🍻
Is there some editing mode that I can't get into or something? My roll 20 looks very different to this. Like at 1:28, I don't have any of those options. I have "settings" "select" "pan" "draw" etc.
For sure. Gray also does a better job of blending in with the outer background too. I secretly want the option for a wooden table texture. I think that would go great with a lot of these game aesthetics.
Somehow I can line up the left and right side by resizing, but there's a discrepancy _in the middle._ My brain figures the discrepancies should accumulate exponentially toward the opposite side of alignment, but if it's exclusively the lines in the middle, is the original image warped? I checked to see if I had resized it so much that I skipped a square, but I didn't, it literally just misaligns by 3 pixels in the middle, and is aligned on both the right and left side.
Solved. I'm a doofus. The guy that usually DMs in my friend group saw it immediately; the map was 2 layers of a dungeon and the grids of the separate maps were not aligned. I split the maps in 2 in Photoshop and aligned them individually.
Literally nothing you did in this video i can do in my roll 20. Has it changed THAT much. Im losing my fucking mind trying to get the grid to work but its just not.
Is this video MASSIVELY out of date, or am I somehow accessing the website from another universe? There is literally -nothing- clickable in that upper right of my screen. Blue or otherwise. I think a little more hand holding is needed here.
I hope this video helps! Let me know if you have any tips or creative ways you use for setting up your map.
I first was introduced to you on Coffin Run, so its like Wetzel is giving me the instructions :)
Loved the tutorial and how thorough it was
I've been using Roll20 since 2013 and I didn't even know all those tricks (especially the last one). Great video Roll20 team!
Thanks for the shout out! Glad we can help!
Cragmaw Castle was the exact map I needed help for lmao. Thanks for the tutorial.
This video is such a life saver for my DM, thank you so much for the easy and straight forward tutorial.😁
Most useful video I have found for starters! Thank You so much!
Thank you so so much. I had such trouble with this for the longest time. This really helped.
Thanks bro you are the G.O.A.T!
7:17 I can't get it to align no matter how I rezise it. I give up, players will have to make due without the grid. So frustrating
Thank you so much, I am a new dm trying to get into roll20 and this helped a lot! Even though parts of the UI changed a bit, after looking around I found it. Like the layers are now ate the bottom left of the screen and the new page icon looks slightly different and is more in the middle of the screen.
This is really useful. I knew 90% of it but not the Alt+ trick for negating snapping.
Awesome, glad we could help. Try alt when rotating and moving tokens as well!
Just going to put this here in case anyone else had the issue I did.
1. I got the map at a good size but I wanted more grids so it would take the players a turn longer to cross from one end to the other.
2. I adjusted grid size like they outlined and got just what I wanted, however the map was now stretching beyond the boundary.
3. I went to page settings and doubled the page size to match the changes to the grid.
Now everything is perfect!
TY Carlos! Been using Roll20 for a good while, but still a few useful new things learned in here!!
Awesome. Glad I could help!
Super useful. Thank you for this.
I cannot effectively state how counter-intuitive Roll 20 is as a DMing system.
I could see if adding special effects like lighting or line of sight needed multiple tutorials, but plopping a picture on a piece of grid paper should be simplicity itself.
Another useful trick is that even if you turn off the grid, you can still set units for whatever you like. Miles, milometers or light years. Useful for world maps and figuring out travel times.
Thanks SO MUCH!
Hello! Great video! Do you know how to change the measurements from ft to meters? I am getting crazy trying to figure it out
FOR RECTANGULAR MAPS: Drag the corner so you don't deform the image, when you are happy with the size (1 cube = character size) go over to your "Pages" section & hover over the page you are editing, click the Settings Gear symbol. Here you can change the width/height of the grid (via "rows"). You can also change the background color! (instead of boring white) Cheers! 🍻
I am struggling, Alt is not working it keeps snapping back to the grid
Is there some editing mode that I can't get into or something? My roll 20 looks very different to this. Like at 1:28, I don't have any of those options. I have "settings" "select" "pan" "draw" etc.
The settings are there they're just updated because this video is outdated lol
Is it possible to move a map from one game to another?
my god thank you
You can change the default new page colour, I like a medium gray so that my eyes don't go blind.
For sure. Gray also does a better job of blending in with the outer background too. I secretly want the option for a wooden table texture. I think that would go great with a lot of these game aesthetics.
awesome ty
Sadly the Background layer shown at 1:42 doesn't exist anymore
Somehow I can line up the left and right side by resizing, but there's a discrepancy _in the middle._ My brain figures the discrepancies should accumulate exponentially toward the opposite side of alignment, but if it's exclusively the lines in the middle, is the original image warped?
I checked to see if I had resized it so much that I skipped a square, but I didn't, it literally just misaligns by 3 pixels in the middle, and is aligned on both the right and left side.
Solved. I'm a doofus.
The guy that usually DMs in my friend group saw it immediately; the map was 2 layers of a dungeon and the grids of the separate maps were not aligned. I split the maps in 2 in Photoshop and aligned them individually.
When I rightclick, I do not have those options!!! WHY?!?!?!?!?!
when I right click the map it says edit undo and paste. How do i get rid of this. I got the map options to show one time.
Gotta make sure you're in the map editor and not tokens and what not
why do you guys have like 4 videos on aligning to a square grid and not a single one for hex grid which is clearly the more difficult one to align
Don't have this video listed if you changed the UI. It's confusing.
The whole map layer thing just isnt showing for me
Literally nothing you did in this video i can do in my roll 20. Has it changed THAT much. Im losing my fucking mind trying to get the grid to work but its just not.
Is this video MASSIVELY out of date, or am I somehow accessing the website from another universe? There is literally -nothing- clickable in that upper right of my screen. Blue or otherwise. I think a little more hand holding is needed here.
Doesn't work. Roll20 is trash. None of your how tos work even close to how the actual site is.
why i don't have "align to grid" option?