Cormyr - new module development [video]

You could fudge it, give it a negative weight value to allow you to carry that value of extra weight. I believe that is how Bags of Holding work in Kingmaker anyway. Either that or add +2 strength and -1 penalties to melee attack rolls and strength based damage rolls (including composite bows, slings and thrown weapons) to compensate (preferably using the luck bonus type so there are no stacking conflicts) - this actually makes the belt better than it should be for calculating weight carried, but otherwise works as intended.

 

So I did a thing, just to test - it's far from perfect, but for a learning Perspectives 3 project it seems to have worked pretty well.

The statue is the wrong type ( I forgot it was meant to be an open and upright sarcophagus until I tested it out in game) and the other sarcophagus is way larger than it should be ( I guessed the dimensions incorrectly, but generally I call that a success. I was tempted to make the back walls for each of the rooms approximate the height they should be in the cross section diagram but settled for low walls for this quick test. obviously the clipping files and sectors would need adjusting to match any new map, but I tried it out in game and it doesn't look too bad.

 

Very nice, Al. That map looks familiar, where is it from?

 

I just recombined @anatoliy's A Dark And Stormy Knight map in WB, changed the dimensions to 9216x6050 pixels in MS Paint (the Perspectives 3 pack for Campaign Cartographer 3+ doesn't allow you to set your own isometric angle), Imported the image into Campaign Cartographer 3+, changed the grid points per inch up by a factor of 10, added the flooring, walls and other bits and bobs, exported the image as a JPG, set the dimensions back to 9216x7424 pixels in MS Paint, split the map up again in WB, and tried it out in ToEE.

 

To add a visible grid to the map after adding in graphical details? I haven't figured out if Perspectives 3 has that option yet, though I assume you can add custom skins in Perspectives 3, but making a custom skin that just adds a grid should be easy enough in Photoshop or Gimp.

You can open your original map in Photoshop, add an alpha channel, select by colour the tones in between the grid and delete them leaving only the grid on an otherwise blank alpha channel, if you copy what's left and paste it enough times you can make an image that is only the 5' grid, then add that channel on top of your map before exporting the new gridded map image.

 

ToEE quite famously doesn't observe the 5' grid in the traditional PnP sense (ie diagonals being 2-1-2-1 etc) because the engine lets you move in any direction the appropriate 5, or 10, or how ever many feet. So I don't think the grid is necessary. But the way Anatoliy has left it in looks fine too imho.