Symbol Scale Question

Cilvianus

When ever I zoom, the symbol scale remains the same. That is, it will remain small, not matter how much I zoom in. Is there a way to use the base size of the image file no matter what zoom?

Thank you.

Ed_NBOS

Which symbols are you referring to?

Some of the symbols - mainly the battlemap symbols, have a height and width in feet already assigned to them. They will place themselves on the map at a fixed size regardless of the zoom level if you have an appropriately sized map. That is, if you place a 1 ft across book symbol on a 4000x4000 mile map, you certainly wouldnt be able to see the book at that scope, so the program instead uses a default setting.

For the other symbols - those in the 'standard fantasy' palette, there's no pre-assigned sizes to them. But, if you draw out their rectangle when you draw them, the program will use that size whenever you place that symbol, regardless of zoom level.

Cilvianus

I have my own symbols I get from video games like Civilization 3, Age of Empires and 1503ad.


Do I need to set the scale for each folder?

Ed_NBOS

For your own images, you can still just drag out a rectangle when placing the symbols, and it will automatically size additional instances of that image at that size.

Alternatively, you can add a symbol metadata file into the symbol directories for your new symbols. see: http://www.nbos.com/nox/wiki.php?topic=Symbol%20Metadata%20Files for information about how to do that. That will let you tell the program that, for example, building1.png is supposed to be 20 feet across.