How to make maps using overlays?

[abver09]

I can't find ODD now, and this had me wonder how I can make maps now, since I don't have access to it and I can't find it anywhere. I really need to find where I can make maps so that I can try to make scenarios. Someone please help me out.

[Adamrf3r]

OOD? do you mean OOB? =order of battle

[Adamrf3r]

Go on create scenario and press new map

[secadegas]

OOD? do you mean OOB? =order of battle

You're posting too fast. The OOD he's looking for is a known map making tool.

[sPzAbt653]

ODD = OPART Design and Debug, a program that would allow you to overlay an hex grid onto a map.

I use Hexthingy to do map overlays. I'm sure someone will pop in with a link to it, if you can't find it.

[Adamrf3r]

How do you use this programme to build maps?

[biddrafter2]

I suggest using QGIS. You can import layers, reproject them, and overlay a hex grid.

Attached an example I made with an export from QGIS and some import code I wrote in c#. The attached map is entirely auto generated. Not saying it does this by default, but an example of how QGIS can help you split things into hexes.

[Edit] - Tried uploading image to a share
https://pasteboard.co/MOWWqYAQivgJ.png

[Simon Edmonds]

Hexthingy can also be imported into QGIS so that you can use Open Topo Map while avoiding the scale distortions that occur when making large scenarios.

[Adamrf3r]

How can this be done can you perhaps point me in the direction of a tutorial or something of the like ?

[Simon Edmonds]

When you save Google Earth it saves as a KML file. If you have a hexthingy on Google Earth it saves as part of that file. I use place marks to make a coordinate structure while still in Google Earth. The structure I use is one every ten hexes.
Open up QGIS.
Create a new project.
In the Browser on the left side under XYZ tiles double click Open Topo Map.
Up in the top row click on Layer; then Add Layer; then Add Vector Layer.
At the right hand end of the Source box click on browse.
Find your file and double click on it.
At the bottom of the Data Source Manager window click Add.
It will come up Select Items to Add. Click Add Layers.
The KML file will then import. It will be an odd shape on the screen; something like this:
That is a 10km hexthing of Europe. The weird shape is the import adjusting itself to the curvature of the earth which is automatic in Google Earth but not QGIS for some reason.
On the side under Layers if you are bringing across Grid References you will see one or more entries called My Places.
Right click on each of these entries and click show labels. That will give you the Coord's.
Done.

[sPzAbt653]

HexThingy also comes with a ReadMe File for more details.

[Jeremy Mac Donald]

Here is a Zip of ODD I had lying around on my computer.

ODD.zip

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