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 (http://halegaming NULL.com/): It is a collection thousands and thousands of images that have already been categorized for easy access.
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.
the file is corrupt in mapping objects, is there a way to fix that?
I’ll just assume that it’s all here http://www.halegaming.com/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&id=10:dundjinni&Itemid=571 (http://www NULL.halegaming NULL.com/index NULL.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&id=10:dundjinni&Itemid=571)
the csuac link redirects me to some home page and i can’t seem to find the archive – is it available from another source?
Hale Gaming has made me fully resolved to never EVER use Joomla. It’s ridiculously ineffective on the user’s side of things.
I’ve been trying to get the CSUAC for months, and I can never manage to do it. I so fondly wish Cecil would distribute it via torrent. It’s such an effective format for the distribution of data. Especially because your “server” almost certainly won’t go down, thanks to the decentralization.
Here’s hoping that the bug report in their forums will solve the issue. It appears (through a quick Google search on the error message) that it’s a problem with the download manager. Namely that it doesn’t know how to handle multipart archives labeled by filename (r01, r02, r03, etc.)
Hoping that a style more like [filename].001.rar will solve this issue and not cause too many problems with finicky archive programs.
I just downloaded “Mapping objects”. I unpacked them, but i really don’t know how to import them to dungeon designer 3. I tried copying files to symbols/user folder and import png (and some other import options) in program.Can anyone tell me how to do it?
I have figured it out.
hey there, what did you use to unpack them? thanks
Oh god, all the files I tried to download from CASUAC have this extension ” .z02 ” that I’ve never seen before.
I tried to use winzip but it doesn’t work.
Please, PLEASE, help.
I have never download the CSUAC in its current form. It was all one chunk when I did it. From what I understand to save on bandwidth he broke up the zip files into pieces. So, you have vehicles.z01, vehicles.z02, vehicles.z03, and so on. You have to download all of the pieces into the same folder and then use Winzip or 7-Zip to extract .z01 and you should be good. Or maybe you select them all and hit extract. I can’t remember anymore exactly, but you need all of the pieces for a particular collection before you can unzip. Hope you can figure it out from there.
I had to use this version of winzip to get the files to unzip
http://download.cnet.com/WinZip/3000-2250_4-10003164.html?tag=mncol;1 (http://download NULL.cnet NULL.com/WinZip/3000-2250_4-10003164 NULL.html?tag=mncol;1)
hey! this stuff is amazing!!! i’m finding a lot of awesome pictures and what not, but i was wondering about more textures for mapping backgrounds. are there any in the sites included here and I’m just not looking hard enough, or is there somewhere else i should be looking? thanks!
Hey I just downloaded a whole bunch of “CSUACvol1(2).z02″ type files from the first forum that they suggest and I was wondering how I would be able to turn those into the image files for my maptool program. Sorry Im just starting and I really dont understand too much on that file type at all…
I never actually dealt with a zip file that has been broken up either. I know you need all the pieces to be able to unzip it. So, looking at the vehicle collection, it looks like it has 9 pieces. I will ask on the rptools.net forum to see what some of the more knowledgeable techies say.
For Brandi, and anyone that may be confused about the torrent file : the torrent file does not include any data you can directly use. You need to
1. download and install a Bittorrent client (like vuze/azureus for exemple)
2. Open the bittorent client and open the torrent file you downloaded from this page. This will tell the Bittorrent client that you want to download the Mapping_Objects file. It will start talking with people that share this file, in a distributed (or Peer to Peer way, but don’t worry, this download is not pirated and therefore it’s legal).
3. The bittorrent client will download the whole 2.8 Go file and save it to your hard drive (this could take a while, but eventually it will happen).
4. When the file is done downloading, you will need to use Winzip, Winrar, or 7zip (among others) to extract the Mapping_object file into a folder. Then you can add this folder to your Resource LIbrary in Maptool.
Et voila !!
okay, ive tried downloading the “Mapping Objects” from the two big starters, and im getting a little frustrated. My computer lets me download them, but then says i dont have a program installed that i can open them with.
When i try to get them into the MapTool library, nothing comes up, just the folder name that i saved the file into. Does anyone know what i might be doing wrong? Help would be great because i need this map-making tool for my novels for Noveling School. Thanks!
–Brandi
The CSUAC is back up so you can use that if you find a torrent file aggravating. The “Mapping Objects” is a torrent file, so you have to install a torrent program to run it. There are a number of free ones out there. Google “torrent program” for programs and how they work.
Thanks a bunch for the help, i will get on that right now.
I downloaded BitTorrent and downloaded the mapping objects again, but i still cant get it into MapTool, it keeps loading as an empty folder in MapTool. Im so totally lost im thinking about just deleting this program and buying a different program…
Brandi,
You are not giving much information to go on and help you. So, you installed a torrent program. You then used it to start downloading mapping objects from the various people seeding it. Due to the size of the folder that would take quite a long time. Now you have your new “mapping objects” folder that you opened up and saw all the images in. Then you added the folder to the MapTool resource library. The indexing would again take some time, due to the size of the folder(2+ gigs if I remember correctly). After following those steps you now open the folder in MapTool and it is empty? Is that correct or did you miss a step. It almost sounds like you are not downloading the folder, which would take many hours.
If you can’t figure out how to use a torrent file, might I again suggest downloading the various pieces of the CSUAC. They are just zip files.
Just FYI the CSUAC is back online and broken up into several smaller files, yet the mapping objects file I download from the torrent keeps saying its corrupt for some reason.
Do you have a link for the CSUAC? Thanks!
A quick google search gave me nothing. I have no idea why the torrent would be giving you a corrupt download. It is the same torrent file it has always been.
http://www.halerecordings.com/gaming/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=83&task=viewcategory&catid=60 (http://www NULL.halerecordings NULL.com/gaming/index NULL.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=83&task=viewcategory&catid=60)
I’m not the OP, but I know where the files are.
Oh, they are back at Hale. Cool I will link to them again soon.