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Creating Scenes for Theater of the Mind and Tactical Battle Maps

Foundry Virtual Tabletop

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In this video we're going to learn how to create a theater of the mind and tactical battlemap Scene. We'll also look at how to align Foundry VTT's grid to your map, and explore cool customizations we can make for our Scenes.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - Theater of the Mind Scene
02:15 - Battlemap Scene
03:05 - Gridalignment tools
04:28 - Grid Customizations
05:29 - Initial View Position
06:00 - Visibility Customizations
06:20 - Environment Customizations
06:57 - Miscellaneous Customizations
07:45 - Outro

13 Comments

@javierdc5660 3 months ago

Awesome! Please, more videos like this one.

@leinil-tuan 3 months ago

wow. foundry is pretty intimidating. i beg you to keep these coming!

@artofchrisalencar9199 3 months ago

thats super nice ! please keep going guys , as much video showing each feature of foundry the better for all of us !

@jinkerGM 3 months ago

One thing about adjusting the grid, make sure you align the grid before adding walls, makes things much easier.

@CrescentWolves 3 months ago

This is so helpful!

@artaweunderhill4480 10 days ago

just here to drop a like.

@dungeonmaster1259 3 weeks ago

It would be great to be able to rotate the theatre of the mind artwork slowly. Maybe 1 rpm. Or to have it ping pong between two angles away from the DM for example.

@JosephStock-dp9ts 3 months ago

When is the next video coming? I'm new to foundry and all of the features I was getting ready to do were said to be in the next video.

@schemage2210 3 months ago

Awesome video. Though my biggest question is always, what to do if your map doesn't have a perfectly square grid (as in the grid is "square" but the dimensions are slightly rectangular)? Is this a feature that will be added at some point? Or is there a reputable module for dealing with maps with this issue?

@Bluedog7126 1 month ago

Nice Video I have gotta ask where in the world did y'all get the Dragon artwork? I reverse image searched and all i got was a twitter post. If you could provide a name of the artist or a link to a store module or anything it would be greatly appreciated.

@lorenzovaletti4951 2 months ago (edited)

Question: 5:58 in previous versions it was always the case that regardless of what you specify in that "initial view" setting, if the players had actor tokens they own on the scene their view would always center on wherever their token was, instead. Does this mean that that's finally fixed now and it works as intended ? I'm assuming that's how's intended in my opinion.