MATERIAL BRUSH

Paint organic looking textures

The material tool is probably the most difficult one to describe. It allows you to paint some specific textures on your map, that are designed to have a specific kind of border.

BRUSH SIZE

Choose a brush size by clicking on one of the circles or by using your mouse wheel:

You can change the brush size with the MOUSE WHEEL or with [ and ].

LAYER

Choose the layer of the Material before drawing it. Click on the dropdown menu to change it.

Check out the Layers page for more info

MATERIAL DRAWING

Drawing

Select a material texture in the list and start drawing by clicking on the map.

Draw your shape by holding click

Once you release click, a border will appear, making the material look finite.

If you want to add more of the same material, just draw again and the shape will be updated.

You can add several Materials just by selecting a new one in the list.

Erasing

If you want to remove some of you Material, hold ⌥ ALT while drawing.

To be able to remove a material, you need to select the same one in the list, and select the correct layer.

LAYERS

You can add the same Material on several layers, which will prevent them from merging.

Even though the drawing part shows no border, it will be added later

You have now one material on one layer, and another one with the same texture on another layer.

You can move a placed Material to the front by clicking on Move To Front and then clicking on your Material with the same texture and with the correct layer selected.

It's hard to predict if a Material will be placed on top or below another one on the same layer. With the current Dungeondraft version, I couldn't find any consistency in that behavior, while in some very old versions, it seemed like the newest Material was always on top. It might be a bug that has appeared with one of the various releases.

SMOOTH CORNERS

You can enable the Smooth button to reduce sharp corners.

This button is only smoothing the material you've selected. It will be updated as soon as you enable the button, but if you want to toggle it off, you'll need to manually update the shape.

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USEFUL INFO

Author's Thoughts

Materials seemed like a good idea on paper but are a mess to use. I wish the textures were available in other tools. Most third party asset creators don't provide assets for that tool at all.