Other World Mapper Forum

This is the section to request small feature additions to tools or functionality that are already part of the Beta Release. Please note other posts before starting a new thread, and feel free to reply to existing requests! V1.0.6 Active Requests OWM-379 Rooms and corridors layering improvements OWM-...

This is the section to report issues with Other World Mapper. Before adding a new topic, please check there isn't already a thread on the issue. If the issue has already been reported, please add any additional information to the topic. V1.0.6 Known Issues OWM-309 The map export size is limited to 2...

stefanstr wrote:Is there some new video I haven’t seen or are you catching up?

The February update in Kickstarter has a video to show the progress (it's in our you tube channel as well).

- Alejandro

nola wrote:In the newest video you show off the ability to measure distances (in miles). Will there also be a setting available to convert/show it to metric?

You can select the scale and units to anything you want, including units you type in. So you could do kilometers but also fantasy units.

unklStewy wrote: Assuming the team is still on schedule the Alpha should be coming up pretty soon.

We are!
Which is good news for alpha, but very good news for the other releases.

I would like to add that I really hope for ease of use with OWM. I am unlikely to dig deeper into the options unless I really have to. There is hoping that the UI will make creating simple maps very easy. Every time we have an internal UI design review that's been a central topic. That's our object...

I don't know if I am good at finding bugs, but the bugs are usually pretty good at finding me. Especially when I get on a role and haven't saved any progress for hours on end. We will very much appreciate your alpha testing then :) Many people, including developers, don't realize how much time and ...

If there was a special links-sticky like that, it would probably also be possible to add a status to every feature (like "planned for Alpha v7", "planned for Beta version", "under review by OWM Team", "new request", etc) I like that actually, we'll try to have something like that up as we get into ...

Thank you everyone for the feedback so far!! It's really helpful having a better idea of your plans for Other World Mapper.

- Alejandro

Anything new out there? We are planning the next update for next week (so once a month, about a month apart from each other). Next week's update will be later on the week since we come from the holidays. We're open more frequent updates, but I think once a month is the best balance of keeping you u...