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Online HS: MAPS & FIGURES

superfrog said:
These are really well done. Did you use White Knight's custom VS tiles?

Usually when I make them I add the more vertical blockers (palm trees, RttFF trees, and ruins) in afterwards. You can see on Fight in the Shade how a few of the spaces are blocked by the non-center palm trees (half because of perspective, and half because VS makes them lean awkwardly). If you PM me I can email you those files.
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I did use the custom vs tiles, except for the level 2 shadow spaces on Basalt Cathedral since half-height tiles can be a bit fiddly.

I was wondering where the slightly transparent palm tree leaves I’ve seen on OHS are. I’ll definitely use those next time I make one of these, and might go back to touch these two up as well.
 
There's literally no reason for this to be private info (not sure what I was thinking earlier), so I'll just post the link here so anybody can download these. Most are courtesy of @awesomeunleashed.

https://imgur.com/a/NaJe6cf

Also, for half-height tiles, you can just go into the VS files and replace glyph images with the numbered images. Then use those glyphs in your build. The sides will still be red, but usually you can't tell.
 
So, I have been looking through the maps and cannot find 3 person maps. Since I am social distancing and play often with 2 friends, does anyone have a list of online 3 person maps? Even just one would be great! Thanks and stay safe.
 
This is the only one I know of: Fight in the Shade

I would love to have more 3-player options for online games. Though one thing I've done IRL a lot that could work is to just find a big map and then do 3-player Heat of Battle placement -- that's made for super fun and wild games. (6-player Heat of Battle is even better!)
 
Thanks!! that will work for now. Michigan was just put on a three week stay at home, so time for the group to go online!! I have enjoyed playing online (except for the last few turns of my last battle!!) and have tried to get others in the group to try it when they are too far away to play. Now is the time!
 
If there's a 3-player map you'd like me to make, I can do that! It won't be super high quality since I'm only on my laptop and not my work computer with a fancy graphics card, but it will work if you want it to.
 
I believe we should hopefully be getting some up from the last ARV contest, so that should help.

Although I do have a question for making online images in general: how well can .hsc files transfer when they've got the tile numbers going on? I ask because there are a few different maps that I'd love to play on online but would hate to make other people do all the work for it. But the computer I can use right now for VS does not take very quality pictures at all, so I was wondering if I'd be able to build the maps and then get someone to just do the picture for them to cut down the workload.
 
It's a good question. I'm not sure of the answer, but it could work. Basically it would depend on whether you've set up your personal tiles the same way as the recipient.
 
That makes sense. So, for example, if we were both using the same personal tile string that's included in the thread that has all the downloads, it should be compatible, yeah? I'll have to try it out sometime.
 
Go guys!!!! I have three weeks of isolation (everything you guys just said sounded like ancient Greek) and support what you guys do!!!!
 
Hey everyone,

Looking to play some Online HS with a family member long-distance, and attempted to access the link, but it says I need permission to access. I submitted a request a few days ago, but was wondering if there's someone specific on here who I should pm about getting Google Doc permission to access the Map and Figures link?
 
If anybody cares, it turns out that Google Drive had pushed a security update to shared folders last fall. Now you need a resource key to get access to a shared folder, even if the folder is set to public access (like this one was). Anybody who had previously viewed the folder was exempted from this.

I had gotten a new link that I put in my comment above, which worked because it has the resource key included. Then when I went to put that link in the OP, I deleted everything after the question mark in the link (as I often do, usually Google just uses that for tracking purposes). So I had just gotten too clever for my own good, and now the link should work going forward.
 
It's working now. Thank you so much Superfrog! I really appreciate the help, and for all the hard work you and others have put into making online HS work!
 
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