Re: (TFT) Animated TFT Battles

[Thomas Fulmer <tfulmer1@gmail.com>]

I assumed you entered the battles and the script generated the maps to
match. Running on its own makes for interesting graphics although I don't
see much application otherwise.

But yes -- I generally do maps in GIMP with a template with saved
tokens/grids. If your map allowed for entering turns/tokens in a simply
format then displayed the map with movements/facings/attacks from a simple
text input it would save a lot of time in that regard.

--Thomas

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:21 AM David Bofinger <bofinger.david@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > I think this is very cool. From the GMing perspective it might greatly
> > simplify my map making time.
>
> Not sure what you mean here. To clarify, I didn't enter the battles shown,
> they're all randomly generated.
>
> I suppose I could add some sort of scripting language to allow you to
> create
> creatures, move them around, etc. but I haven't yet.
>
> I assume at the moment you're using a simple vector graphics application?
> (I've sometimes just used PowerPoint.) I think anything I could build would
> end up being about as fast to use and a great deal uglier.
>
> > It would be nice to be able to take a full turn snapshot that showed all
> > the movements/actions from that round in addition to being able to make
> > the moving graphic to help people visualize the sequence.
>
> I guess I could do that, maybe not for the video but just as a sequence of
> images.
>
> ---
> David
>
>
>
> On 19 November 2015 at 16:15, Thomas Fulmer <tfulmer1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > David,
> >
> > I think this is very cool. From the GMing perspective it might greatly
> > simplify my map making time.
> >
> > It would be nice to be able to take a full turn snapshot that showed all
> > the movements/actions from that round in addition to being able to make
> the
> > moving graphic to help people visualize the sequence.
> >
> > --Thomas
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:00 AM David Bofinger <
> bofinger.david@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I wrote code to generate animations like this, and I'm interested in
> > > people's thoughts.
> > >
> > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/8kf98b1vtng46nh/tftbattles.gif?dl=0
> > >
> > > It has a lot of the Advanced Melee rules, some of them approximated,
> > > twenty-eight character templates, thirty-one simplified monster
> > > definitions. No wizards, no missiles weapons (wouldn't be that hard to
> > add
> > > but might not be much fun), no tactics much other than "Charge!" Tell
> me
> > > what you think.
> > >
> > > --
> > > David
> > >
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