Isometric Grid Support

This update brings support for isometric grids and more grid styling options

Isometric Grid Support
Isometric map made with Dungeon Scrawl with tokens from Epic Isometric

If you’ve ever wanted to run an isometric encounter in Owlbear Rodeo today’s update is designed to make that easier than ever.

There’s a few things to go over with the new fine grained grid controls so let’s dig into it.

Isometric Grid Type

Alongside the square and hexagon Grid Type’s you can now select an Isometric option.

This will draw an infinite isometric grid with all your styling applied. It will also allow for proper grid snapping and measurements for an isometric grid.

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A new isometric option is available in the Grid Type control
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Isometric grids being drawn on the inifinite canvas of a Scene

If you’re familiar with isometric grids you will know that there are actually two standards when it comes to the isometric grid shape.

These two standards come from the different needs between the video game industry and the design industry. In the video game industry it is common for isometric grids to be expanded to fit into square aspect ratio to make it easier to render pixels without issues. A grid drawn in this way is no longer isometric but the game industry still calls them isometric anyway.

Owlbear Rodeo supports both these isometric styles but to avoid confusion they have been split into two terms: Isometric grids created by design programs and Dimetric grids for expanded grids from video games.

Once the Isometric option is selected you can use the Axonometry drop down to change between the two modes.

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Changing between Isometric and Dimetric Axonometry

More Grid Styling

Custom Grid Colors

Previously your grid was limited to a light, dark or highlight color. In this update we’ve added a fourth button that opens a color picker so you can choose any color you wish.

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Custom grid colors using the Owlbear Rodeo color picker

Configurable Grid Line Width

If you’ve ever wanted your grid to be a bit chunkier you now can with the Line Width option.

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Increasing the line width to 10px
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Chunky dashed grid lines in a Scene

Dotted Grids

If you like your grids more subtle there is a new Dotted option for the Line Type that allows you to show small dots on the corners of each grid cell.

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A new Dotted option in the Line Type control
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Dotted square grids in a Scene

Other Changes

We’ve also snuck in a few other changes with this update to fix some bugs and to make some things a little easier.

  • Fix the alignment controls not working in the Scene importer on the first try
  • Added more grid snapping options to hex grids to allow for better snapping for map alignment and joined hexagon clusters
  • Add better image validation to prevent unsupported file types from being imported
  • Add better controls for the Movement Ruler variant to prevent tokens from being moved when clicking on an overlapping grid cell
  • Changed the scale on the Grid Snapping Sensitivity setting to allow more precision and remove unused values.