This page contains resources that should allow you to build your image library quickly. Some of the links will download zip files of images, other links will take you to websites that have there own files for you to download. While at the bottom I do include links to galleries of images, the rest of the links are to resources that will allow you to download many images that have already been organized in someway.
The Two Big Starters
The CSUAC(Currently taken off of its website). It is a collection thousands and thousands of images that have already been categorized for easy access. They are currently only available for download in .exe files. So, sorry mac folks.
This is a link to a bit torrent file that was put together by a MapTool user. The collection contains thousands and thousands of images. Mapping Objects The images have been mostly catagorized.
Either of the two above collections will provide an excellent base image library. From there you can add in this and that from the below galleries and forums.
Below are links to galleries or forums with a huge number of useful images.
RPTools.net Gallery (http://gallery NULL.rptools NULL.net/main NULL.php) has thousands of images, textures, tokens, and maps that have been contributed by MapTool users.
RPGMapshare (http://www NULL.rpgmapshare NULL.com/) has many high quality images and maps available for many settings. I should note that RPGMapshare is one of the few sites that has many quality images for modern maps, as well as other settings.
Dundjinni Forums (http://www NULL.dundjinni NULL.com/forums/default NULL.asp) has an incredible selection of images and maps created by the Dundjinni software. Just do a search of the forums for whatever you are looking for and odds are several examples will pop up.
387+ Maps (http://www NULL.dungeonmastering NULL.com/tools-resources/387-free-dd-maps) is a collection of links to over 387 D&D maps. They are from various time periods and styles, so some are old school basic and others are more detailed.
WOTC has supplied the artwork from their monster books and minis to the public for non-commercial use. Below are the images broken down into the book or collection they came from. Thanks to lmarkus001 for supplying those to me. For those of you running fantasy games, just drop these images into TokenTool (http://rptools NULL.net/doku NULL.php?id=tokentool:intro) to create a token of any monster you might want in seconds.
MM (http://rptoolstutorials NULL.net/MM NULL.zip) | MM3.5 (http://rptoolstutorials NULL.net/MM3 NULL.5 NULL.zip) | MM II (http://rptoolstutorials NULL.net/MM%20II NULL.zip) | MM III (http://rptoolstutorials NULL.net/MM%20III NULL.zip) | MM IV (http://rptoolstutorials NULL.net/MM%20IV NULL.zip) | MM V (http://rptoolstutorials NULL.net/MM%20V NULL.zip) | MM Faerun (http://rptoolstutorials NULL.net/MM%20Faerun NULL.zip)
Please leave a comment and/or link to any other useful places to download images for MapTool.
how do you transfer a token made with the token tool to the maptool for gameplay?.
In the Introduction to Tokens tutorial around the 2 minute mark it shows how you can either File=>Save Token to your computer, drag a token straight from TokenTool to your computer, or drag a token straight from TokenTool to a MapTool map. If you save or drag it to your computer you just want to make sure that you put it in a folder that you have already indexed or you need to index it after, so it will show up in your Image Library.
Figures, I finally find the tools I have been looking for and the image library needed most (it appears) is no longer available. Hope it is available soon. Workign on getting the others listed.
The torrent file is actually larger then the CSUAC. Just not quite as organized, I gather from comments of its creator.
I run a fragment of my website as a gaming spot, and would ahve no problem (bandwidth-wise) host/distributing the CSUAC if anyone can garner the rights of distribution. I’ll wait for some feedback
Good luck everyone.
The site hosting the CSUAC files has been taken down indefinitely. If anyone else could put them up for download that would be great. A torrent file would be ideal.
When you download the CSUAC there is a user agreement that you will not redistribute. Both myself and the folks at rptools.net have emailed Cecil, to see if we can get permission to host the collection while it has been taken down from Cecil’s website.
Awesome thanks. Much appreciated. I’ve just started using Map Tools and am finding them awesome. Tutorials very helpful thanks.
Would you accept images from DnD Miniatures i.e. from the various sets.
The CSUAC files (It is CSUAC, not CSAUC by the way) hosted on halerecordings gaming site are being split into even smaller archives which should aleviate the problems some people are having downloading larger files from the site.
Once I have the entire collection I am also going to start a torrent file containing the zips. And if I can get ahold of Cecil I will try to upload an archive of the images for mac/linux folks.
a very orginized site of tokens, maps, and objects is
http://www.asgardnorth.net/html/tokens.html (http://www NULL.asgardnorth NULL.net/html/tokens NULL.html)
Nice top down art. Thanks for the link.