Roll20 How to a Align Map to the Grid | Set up Page Tutorial

Here are 4 different ways to align your map on Roll20. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to set up your page, set dimensions, align to Grid, and share tips for maps that are trickier to align.
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⏰ Time Stamps
00:00 Aligning Maps on Roll20
00:05 Create a New Map Page
00:26 Page Settings
01:04 Changing the Grid Color
01:22 The Map & Background Layer
01:54 Uploading your Map
01:58 Resize Map: Set Dimensions
02:21 Resize Map: Free Transform
02:42 Align to Grid for Gridless Images
03:45 🔴 **TIP** Maps made for Roll20
04:00 Gridded, Borderless Maps: Using Units to Set Dimensions
04:42 Gridded, Bordered Maps
04:53 Map Image Properties
05:15 Using Pixels to Set Dimensions
05:40 Troubleshooting
06:41 Not Snapping to Grid: Alt + Reposition 🔴
07:17 Aligning by Sight: Alt + Reposition and Alt + Resize 🔴
08:20 Resizing the Page after Resizing your Map

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[carlosluna]

I hope this video helps! Let me know if you have any tips or creative ways you use for setting up your map.

[arbiter]

Cragmaw Castle was the exact map I needed help for lmao. Thanks for the tutorial.

[adamu.]

I've been using Roll20 since 2013 and I didn't even know all those tricks (especially the last one). Great video Roll20 team!

[DetectDEV_]

This video is such a life saver for my DM, thank you so much for the easy and straight forward tutorial.😁

[Illersvansen]

7:17 I can't get it to align no matter how I rezise it. I give up, players will have to make due without the grid. So frustrating

[bertgary]

Most useful video I have found for starters! Thank You so much!

[frandynamo]

Thank you so so much. I had such trouble with this for the longest time. This really helped.

[_SilentPhoenix_]

Thank you so much, I am a new dm trying to get into roll20 and this helped a lot! Even though parts of the UI changed a bit, after looking around I found it. Like the layers are now ate the bottom left of the screen and the new page icon looks slightly different and is more in the middle of the screen.

[TheMightyBattleSquid]

Just going to put this here in case anyone else had the issue I did.

1. I got the map at a good size but I wanted more grids so it would take the players a turn longer to cross from one end to the other.
2. I adjusted grid size like they outlined and got just what I wanted, however the map was now stretching beyond the boundary.
3. I went to page settings and doubled the page size to match the changes to the grid.

Now everything is perfect!

[phoenixiwaki]

TY Carlos! Been using Roll20 for a good while, but still a few useful new things learned in here!!

[RossMKitson]

This is really useful. I knew 90% of it but not the Alt+ trick for negating snapping.

[allmybasketsinoneegg]

Another useful trick is that even if you turn off the grid, you can still set units for whatever you like. Miles, milometers or light years. Useful for world maps and figuring out travel times.

[Nutshellbill]

I cannot effectively state how counter-intuitive Roll 20 is as a DMing system.

I could see if adding special effects like lighting or line of sight needed multiple tutorials, but plopping a picture on a piece of grid paper should be simplicity itself.

[altea]

Hello! Great video! Do you know how to change the measurements from ft to meters? I am getting crazy trying to figure it out

[scoochyogooch]

I am struggling, Alt is not working it keeps snapping back to the grid

[osanakoma]

FOR RECTANGULAR MAPS: Drag the corner so you don't deform the image, when you are happy with the size (1 cube = character size) go over to your "Pages" section & hover over the page you are editing, click the Settings Gear symbol. Here you can change the width/height of the grid (via "rows"). You can also change the background color! (instead of boring white) Cheers! 🍻

[Reohz]

You can change the default new page colour, I like a medium gray so that my eyes don't go blind.

[ThRazieI]

Sadly the Background layer shown at 1:42 doesn't exist anymore <3

[dzjin]

why do you guys have like 4 videos on aligning to a square grid and not a single one for hex grid which is clearly the more difficult one to align

[PonzooonTheGreat]

Is there some editing mode that I can't get into or something? My roll 20 looks very different to this. Like at 1:28, I don't have any of those options. I have "settings" "select" "pan" "draw" etc.