Hi,
Well I have spent the whole night tinkering with Maptools, my projector set up for my Face to Face 4thed game and a mate connecting via iPad from an external IP and I am impressed with the app. You have put in far more functionality than I thought you would/could.
However, since there will always be teathing problems with any release, I just wanted to give you some feedback.
1)Probably my biggest problem at the moment is that MapNakotic does not pick up all the graphics/objects that I usually put into a map or seem to show Fog of War
For example, Picture 1 below shows the map I ran last night, inclusive with lots of buildings and tokens with varying states. Essentially this is what my mini-projector images onto a table that the group has used up to this point.
http://img529.imageshack.us/f/mapnakotic1.jpg/The following picture is from my friends iphone of his ipad connected via the cloud.
http://img263.imageshack.us/i/mapnakotic2.jpg/The Pc's are there as well as the mobs combined with a red aura on one of the mobs but I am missing all of my buildings (effectively graphics under the object layer). These graphics are not a part of the packaged release of maptools bu was compiles by maptool users (I dont know if that matters or not). Also the Fog of War is not present. I thinkered with that lighting setting you had in MapNakotic but that didn't help.
The next picture is a close up of the cluster f(*k that the PC's created to gank my Deurgar Ambush.
http://img826.imageshack.us/i/mapnakotic3.jpg/As we can see, something screwy is happening with my mobs as either a quarter or half a token has gone AWOL (the PC's have a purple circle whilst the Mobs are a red circle). Also the states on the tokens are not coming through, neither is the blue halo on one of the Mobs. Combined with this is their is partially a part of a building but the rest of it does not show.
2) My friend and I had a couple of app crashes. I cant attribute it to any one action but I would hesitate to call it "stable".
3) On a different map i had used some time ago, the mobs were unviewable even when in plain sight. Only when I moved them did they show via Mapnakotic but when I release the token, it goes invisible.
Seemingly their is something i am unaware of or wrong with tokens set to NPC's or graphics on the object layer as well as the states on tokens. I am using Maptools 75 (latest release) with Vista 32 on a BenQ S57 laptop. These problems are replicated exactly on my iphone connecting to maptools via an internal IP.
All in all, I am still extremely excited with what you have accomplished. I am happy to provide you the maptools campaign file or any other data you request if it will help.
Lastly, could you please describe the 2 in-app purchases that can be made in a little more details. I am a fan and user of diceonomicon and wonder what functionality of diceonomicon translates into the Mapnakotic dice roller, if any. Also if you could spell out the potential of the other "server" app please? does this allow a device using Mapnakotic to act asa server or something else entirely?
Thanks once again! You have made a giant leap forward in my view
It still kind of works with 1.3b73.
