Homemade Overlay Sheets

[selenite]

Originally Posted by GranitePenguin

Wowsers! How did I miss this one? Raw terrain graphics for the win; that's really nice.

That's great. I'd want to add some hex lines to it but that still lets me generate large overlays.

[GranitePenguin]

Originally Posted by selenite

That's great. I'd want to add some hex lines to it but that still lets me generate large overlays.

If it was in an .xcf file format with a terrain layer and a hex layer, that would be awesome.

[offsides]

Originally Posted by GranitePenguin

If it was in an .xcf file format with a terrain layer and a hex layer, that would be awesome.

Creating the XCF file would require me to use the contents of the Terrain PDF, which I can't do without SJG permission (and I'd have to make a bunch of them). As a second best for now, here's a transparent hex grid to overlay on the terrain images - just scale the terrain image (currently 2400x3000) to 2400x3150, then overlay this to it. I had to print it telling GIMP to ignore the page margins, but they all printed just fine.

[GranitePenguin]

Originally Posted by offsides

Creating the XCF file would require me to use the contents of the Terrain PDF, which I can't do without SJG permission (and I'd have to make a bunch of them).

I kind of meant if SJG released one in addition to the PDF, but that works, too :-)

[tomc]

Originally Posted by offsides

[*]An alternate source of hex images is OgreMap2, though I don't know what the proper resolutions would be.[/LIST]

They are 96 DPI.

[GranitePenguin]

another way to quickly get some hexes to throw on a layer:

http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com

They have an option for 1" hexes, but it's not a big deal to scale it up.