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It looks like many (most?) of the maps in the published modules were generated with MapMatic. Are the MapMatic sources for these files available?

Asking because I find myself gaming mostly online these days (via Roll20 or other VTTs) and find it is very time consuming to prepare maps for screen use. However, most of the work comes down to: 1) removing the grid; 2) removing map keys; and 3) resizing the image to better fit a screen. I often end up retracing whole maps in Inkscape if I can't clean them up nicely with Gimp, which is fairly often.

There must be a better way of doing this. I'm wondering if MapMatic has a feature to regenerate images without grid lines and/or at specific resolutions? I can see how one could remove the keys be editing the map source, but not sure about the scaling or grid. If it doesn't have these features, is the source for the program available? I'm a software guy and would be happy to hack on it and try to add these capabilities.

I would also be interested in this. One of the reasons I gave up on Roll20 was I always had to DM and I'm not very good with Gimp/Inkscape and just don't have the time to learn them.

Any map I created with MapMatic +2 can be shared; just tell me what you're looking for and I'll check. But some of the early maps were done in Gimp by hand. Also, MapMatic always draws gridlines... not sure how you're going to remove them.

If you could share the map files for House of Coldarius that would be great. It sounds like MapMatic can't generate files without grid lines. Even so, the sources would make removing the keys easier.

Any chance that MapMatic could be modified to make the grid optional? If the source is available, I'd be willing to take a stab at adding this feature.

House of Coldarius level 1 is already public. I can't find source for the other levels; no idea where they are. Sorry.