Drawing Tool

Create helpful annotations, draw room features, doodle animals... your imagination is boundless with the drawing tool.

The ability to draw on your canvas, image or map is as easy as grabbing a paint brush.

Available to everyone in the session, with variable transparencies, color choices... with the Session Owner having one additional option: Clear.

To start, navigate to the Map Tools, and click the icon of a circle and square. The keyboard shortcut for this is D. This opening the Drawing Tool menu. In order left to right you can do the following:

Set up the brush

You can create the brush you want with the following options. This affects all the other drawing tools with respect to the choices made.

• Size from a choice of 8

• Color from a choice of 12

• Transparency as a slider.

Grab

Grab allows you to click on a drawn element (each single click of the Drawing Tool creates a single element). With this you can move elements around the canvas.

Brush

A freehand brush tool. Hold down left mouse button to create a mark.

Line

Hold down left mouse button from where you want the line to start, and let go where you want the line to end.

Square - Circle - Triangle (Filled) &
Square - Circle - Triangle (Unfilled)

Square, circle and triangle shapes filled with the color/transparency brush set. The unfilled versions have the outline of the shape, with a transparent centre.

Square and Triangle - Hold down left mouse button from where you want one of the corners to be. Drag to increase size and finely tune the shape. Release the button when you are satisfied.

Circle - Hold down left mouse button where the center of the circle needs to be, then drag to increase the size. Release button to finalize size.

Erase

When an element is hovered over with the mouse, a pale blue box will appear around the drawn element. Click on the element to remove it. This tool is useable by everyone on all elements, regardless of creator.

GM Only - Erase

This tool is only available for the Session Owner / GM. This removes all drawn elements from the current canvas.