Making maps in Excel
Update, September 9th, 2011: The images are gone since I'm deleting everything off of my photobucket account - I like imgur far better. I'm lazy, and thus haven't uploaded the images to imgur. Please let me know if you require the images, and I'll upload them again at that point.
A fellow Weaver has asked me to make a guide for him to make maps in Excel. Alright, perhaps not in so many words, but I might as well make a long, complex guide.
Note that these are only my preferences, and that many a step could be changed to suit your own likings. Things which are my own preference, they will be in blue and bolded. Sometimes, if all of the parts of a step are personal preference, it will be denoted with ==OPTIONAL==. In this case, none of the text within will be blue or bolded; it will be assumed to be.
All parameters are also personal preferences, but for your sanity, I will not make blue or bold them.
Note that this is assumed you are using a Windows computer.
For this, I'll make a table, a monster, an NPC, and a player.
Anything I've forgotten? Questions? Comments? Feel free to post away, or hit me with a PM.
A fellow Weaver has asked me to make a guide for him to make maps in Excel. Alright, perhaps not in so many words, but I might as well make a long, complex guide.
Note that these are only my preferences, and that many a step could be changed to suit your own likings. Things which are my own preference, they will be in blue and bolded. Sometimes, if all of the parts of a step are personal preference, it will be denoted with ==OPTIONAL==. In this case, none of the text within will be blue or bolded; it will be assumed to be.
All parameters are also personal preferences, but for your sanity, I will not make blue or bold them.
Note that this is assumed you are using a Windows computer.
Setting Up
Making The Map
Making Objects And People
For this, I'll make a table, a monster, an NPC, and a player.
Posting The Map
And...You're Done! *Phew*
Anything I've forgotten? Questions? Comments? Feel free to post away, or hit me with a PM.