Map Viewer Help

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General

CURRENTLY EVERYTHING IS TEST DATA. DON'T OVER-INTERPRET WHAT YOU SEE ON THE MAP.

The map area shows what a specific character can currently see and has previously seen. Around the map you can find:

• Above the horizontal line at the top of the screen are controls used for testing without a server.
• Above the map is information about the map and messages from the Dungeon Master. Some map actions will also use the message box.
• Below the map are controls to adjust what part of the map is shown.
• To the right is information, action buttons, and controls. This includes a list of characters in the party.

Hover over text and symbols for more information and learn what happens when a symbol is clicked.

Click the gear button (⛭) in the upper right of the main page to show the settings page again.

• Send e-mail when important descriptions are missing, insuficient, or confusing.

Pressing the Escape key (Esc) in the upper left of the keyboard will clear temporary information from the map, cancel or end some actions, and close pages over the map (such as this page). Please complain whenever the Escape key doesn't clear the appropriate item

If the page isn't displaying correctly click the reload button (↻) in the upper right to fetch map data again, press the F5 key for a page reload, or press Control-Shift-R for a hard browser reload. Please report the circumstances and which operations helped solve the problem.

Past, present, future, and notes

The map view is a combination of what can currently be seen by the character and memories of what has been seen in the past. The future isn't shown. Anything not currently seen is dimmer than what can currently be seen. Eventually there will be a way to suggest how to improve the distinction between past and present.

The map view presents information other than the viewed area.

• Walls, doors, and curtains, including memories of recent door positions.
• Character locations and character names.
• The location of visible light sources carried by characters and on the map.
• Annotations created by the Dungeon Master and characters.
• Lines, boxes, and circles created by the Dungeon Master and characters.
• A map grid to help understand distances and positions.
• A compass rose in the upper left.

Actions to the right of the map can control which information is displayed.

Characters and Packs

The map display is the current view and memory of one character. Characters can travel independently or group together in packs (but each will still have a different view).

Packs are formed by characters following other character, and packs are split when a follow is cancelled. The character list on the right of the interface shows which characters are in packs. Click the pack icon () to show the details of who is following who.

A move or jump request by any player in a pack moves the entire pack.

View

• The background is the map image. This is loaded last and in segments.
• You can optional display a grid over the map. The scale of the grid is given at the bottom of the screen.
• On top of the map are white dots for visible light sources, walls (white), doors (orange), and curtains (red). These are brighter if currently seen and dimmer if a memory. Memories include room out of site and previous door positions.
• Players can indicate points of interest or plans with lines, boxes, and circles. These can be created in white or purple.
• Annotations from Dungeon Master or players can also be created in white or purple.
• Character locations are indicated with with a name to the right. Colors indicate groups of characters following each other. Characters close have combined locations. For characters not currently seen the last remembered location is marked ().

A character Name/Key token must be entered on the settings page to view a map.

The map view can be changed in several ways:

• With the map scroll bars.
• By dragging the map. Left-click-hold on the map and move the pointer.
• With arrow keys. The direction is configured on the Settings page.
  Use Shift for larger movements, Ctrl for smaller movements.
• By clicking various items on the page outside of the map area.
• By right-click on the map and selecting an option from the menu.
• With various keyboard commands. (See the list below.)
• Direct psychic control of the map is allowed.

Change the zoom level of the map with the zoom buttons or zoom slider below the map, with keyboard commands, or with a scroll wheel (if enabled in the viewer settings).

Various actions are activated by right-clicking on the map to bring up a context menu. Menu items can be activated with the mouse and some have keyboard shortcuts. Double-clicking on the map sends a move request.

Characters

• A list of known characters is shown on the right when a map is loaded. Your character is first.
• Some information is shown for each character. Hover in various places for more information, and click for actions.
• The symbol on the left indicates a character is moving alone. The symbol indicates the charactcer is in a pack. Pack members are color coded. Click for information about all packs.
• Lines, boxes, and circles drawn by a character can be temporarily blocked. The block ends when the character draws on the map again.

Keyboard

I'm sorry this page is a bit incomplete as it was mostly written before the user interface. It will probably be updated sometime. Please report any errors or omissions.

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What's New

New January 2022

The entire display implementation has been changed. Much is similar, but every aspect has changed to some degree. Please restest everything. Pretend your character's life will depend on the map program working (because it will).

Testing features that won't be part of a final UI have been moved to the top of the window.

New features added: Keyboard commands; Accelerators on the context menu; Zoom control with a scroll wheel; Annotations (map context menu); Pack view (click a pack symbol on the right); Double-click to send a move request; Actions on the character list; Lights list; More actions in several areas; Server status; Improvements to direct psychic control; Purple art and annotations; AFK mode and sign off; Temporarily blocking lines, boxes, and circles drawn by other characters.

See the full help for a little more information.

Examples of lights, walls, doors, and curtains are on the left edge of a loaded map near the top. Comments are encouraged, but the final color decisions will happen after testing with live maps from the server.

The viewer isn't connected to a server, but some of the code thinks there is a server and display messages talking about the server. If a dropped light appears in the wrong place blame the server.

Settings

Arrow key action:
Move the viewer over the map. Think about using scroll bars on the map.
Move the map under the viewer. Think about dragging the map.

Scroll wheel action:
Leave the browser in control of the scroll wheel.
Use the scroll wheel to zoom. Toward you zooms out, away zooms in.
Use the scroll wheel to zoom. Toward you zooms in, away zooms out.
Note: Two-finger scroll on a touch pad is considered a wheel action.

Map background:
Gray Black White
Previously seen areas of maps are partially transparent. The appearance of these areas can be customized by changing the color of the map background.

Disable QuikLoad Plus™.

Use the ⛭ (gear) button in the upper right of the main page return to this page.

Privacy Policy: The map relay server logs IP addresses, the names of characters, the time and sequence of activities, and information about messages sent and received. Keys are not logged. The server does not keep keys after a character is authenticated. There is no permanent logging in the map relay server. Browser local storage and session storage are used to preserve settings and map information.