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Foundry VTT Grid Alignment Settings

EDIT: Splitch0 in the replies to this comment offers a different method that may be both simpler and better than mine! Check it out if you don't have any luck with my method.

First, set the MCT’s Hexagonal style to Regular instead of Roll20. (This setting reverts every time you restart the MCT, or navigate away from the Map Editor screen!)

In Foundry…

- Grid Type: Hex Rows - Odd
- Grid Size: 76
- Image dimensions: (same as image itself)
- Padding Percentage: 0.25
- Offset Background: Horizontal 38, Vertical 2 (you may need to play around with this depending on your map's dimensions)
- Turn Grid Opacity all the way down so that it's hidden.

The larger your map gets, the less accurate these settings get, as the offset gets more pronounced towards the edges of the map. With as much room for variation as the MCT allows for, I strongly doubt there's one universal set of settings for all possible maps. But these settings should work just fine, for the most part.

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I can't for the life of me get the grid to fit in foundry vtt. Was there a specific map size used to get the right result using those settings? 

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I find it way easier to leave the background of the scene blank and drop the map in as a tile. You can then drag and drop to resize it to the grid. Just remeber to hold SHIFT to disable grid snapping.

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This is something I have never even thought to do before but wow, what a simple and effective solution! I'll edit my comment with this suggestion because it probably works even better this way. (Just make sure to send that tile to the back layer before adding any new ones, I guess.)

Hey there, you might want to take a look at my comment and try again. I just updated it with new settings discovered by a member of the Pilot NET Discord community, and they seem way better than my initial suggestions.

Thank you soooooo much , this was so frustrating. I almost gave up and grabbed a different map. Your help saved my map and my sanity.