Mark's Kings of War adventures bliggity blog: Generators

I always loved Lars’ Epic Dwarf Map Pack created by Lars from the Giant Dwarf Podcast and used to use both generators.

So after creating the Shroud of the Reaper website, and playing with pure electronic results and votes submissions that automatically fed into a results calculator, which in turn automatically updated a web page. I thought what next....

So I mocked up a Map generator and scenario generator.

This had issues as Shroud of the Reaper website uses google sites, cause its free and does what I needed.

BUT google sites does not hold static urls for images you upload, they change url randomly throughout the day as the site is load balanced.

So many frustrations later,

Tried images at the base of the page - Image URL changed within hrs, sometimes on re-publish
Tried hidden static pages - URL held for 24hrs then boom broken links
Tried pulling direct from Google Drive - URL held for 24hrs then boom broken links
Tried displaying the image held in Google Drive - no joy, would not show at all
Was at a point of WTF, then thought if Google sites wont do it, prehaps another generic free web hoster will..

I had a trick, a way around it, yippiee kia yay Mo Fo.

So then the task of re-loading all the images, publishing on a generic unbranded site, grabbing the URLs of those images, and feeding them into the randomiser scripts.

Ta Dar.... Map and Scenario generators are back.

Scenarios

So I created an image for each of the 12 v3 scenarios, that are then used to random pic from, I also created an Old School Scenario picker, for the previous scenarios.

Maps

Trawling through the interweb, I re-created a load of maps in a consistent style, so far there are 52 Maps that are stored and random picked from.

So where can you find these generators?