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Modern Day Map Tiles

Modern Day Map Tile Sample ArtThe Modern Day Map Tiles set of art assets expands our original Dungeon Map Tiles set with contemporary modern-themed map-building assets. Now you can build urban street scenes, shops, houses, and industrial workshops.

What is a Map Tile?

A map tile is an art asset depicting a specific area of terrain. Such as the floor of an office, an area of street sidewalk, or staircase steps. In order for a Game Master to build an adventure map for players to explore, map tiles are placed onto the digital canvas block by block, tile by tile, until the desired urban setting is constructed.

Each map tile is a combination of photographic source material and hand-drawn artwork, that gives us the unique style of all Studio WyldFurr Map tiles. All of the tiles have been rendered from a bird's eye view of the landscape, with shadowing employed to give the illusion of depth.

Map Tile Scale

The Studio WyldFurr range of digital role-playing tokens and map tiles all use a standard scale of one inch to three on-screen pixels, for a standard 5ft map grid square of 180 pixels. Thus each map tile depicts a five-foot square area of terrain.

Art Assets - Raw Image Files Edition

This edition of the Modern Day Map Tiles pack is designed for use by Game Masters who love building their own adventure maps and want access to a toolbox of ready-made artistic material. The map tiles within this package were designed to act as a library of art assets that a Game Master could simply just drag-n-drop onto a blank map canvas to form an adventure map.

The package contains a wealth of raw image files in JPG, PNG, and WEBP file formats. These image files form the building blocks you can assemble into an industrial compound, corporate security fortress, fantasy monster lair, or whatever kind of structure you wish to design.

How to use the Map Tiles Art Assets?

All map tile art asset packs released by Studio WyldFurr can be imported into graphics editing programs such as Photoshop or Gimp for the creation of adventure maps. Some virtual tabletop roleplaying applications such as Fantasy Grounds and FoundryVTT include adventure map creation tools that the map tile art assets work with as well.

Begin the creation process with a blank canvas, apply a 180-pixel grid guide so that the Map Tiles snap to the grid, and then just begin placing the map tiles upon the canvas to build up your adventure map. Once you have filled the canvas, export your completed adventure map as a JPG or WEBP that you can then import into the virtual tabletop roleplaying App of your choice. For example, you could import your maps into Fantasy Grounds, FoundryVTT, Roll20, or D20Pro.

We recommend using the graphics editing program, Gimp. It is a free, versatile graphics editing App, with a small learning curve. But we also have tutorials and Livestream videos on the Studio WyldFurr Youtube Channel that can walk you through map building in Photoshop, Gimp, and Fantasy Grounds.

Modern Day Map Tiles Animated Sample

Sample Mini-Maps created with the Modern Day Map Tiles Pack
Click on the image below to view a larger example.

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Tailz

"This is the first modern themed set of map tiles I have designed, in the future, I would like to make some more industrial-themed map tiles and maybe even some military bunker-style map tiles. Thank you for taking the time to review this product. It is the support from people like you that enables me to continue bringing you such products."

~ Tailz from Studio WyldFurr.

20/06/2023 Update!

This package has been updated to include new PNG overlay assets that separate many of the previously "joined" assets. For example, many of the tiles that included walls and floors in the same asset, now have versions that separate the walls from the floors. This gives you far more flexibility in map creation, for example: you could use the wall assets from another pack, with the floor assets from this pack! Plus the update introduces new parts that were not in the original package, such as Concrete staircase assets, grunge tiles, a new blue carpet texture set of assets, and more!

IMPORTANT: This package is not a stand-alone game, but a gaming aid for designing role-playing maps for personal use only. Adventure maps can be made in any art program that supports the import of JPG, PNG, or WEBP images. Exported adventure maps can then be employed in virtaul tabletop roleplaying Apps that permit the import of image files, such as Fantasy Grounds, FoundryVTT, Roll20, or D20Pro.

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Thomas S May 17, 2022 4:51 am UTC
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Oh, if you ever do a sequel set, besides the road pieces, some concrete steps would be helpful. I ended up having to use some metal ones from one of the SF sets.
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Thomas S May 12, 2022 4:01 pm UTC
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This may just be me missing something. Is there a away to build a four-lane road with these? Because all the street tiles I'm seeing border on curbs.
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Studio W May 15, 2022 7:20 am UTC
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When I designed the street tiles I was thinking of just a single lane street, so building a four-lane highway may be difficult as I didn't envision it. Sorry.
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Thomas S May 15, 2022 10:47 pm UTC
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Just for reference I found a workaround of sorts; if you do the tiles big enough to be two tiles per width, you can overlap them so that the non-gutter section extrudes out from overlap with the more inner tile. Its a bit tedious, but it works.
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Thomas S August 02, 2021 7:05 pm UTC
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Somehow missed this when it came out, but definitely putting it on my wishlist.
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JJ P November 13, 2020 10:35 pm UTC
Rick S - Don't have photoshop. Not familiar with the virtual role-playing tabletops. You mentioned above apps such as Fantasy Grounds, Roll20, Battlegrounds, or d20Pro. Any recommendations on one vs another? Are there shareware versions of similar products that would just permit mapmaking? Not interested in the various licensed game specific mods. Just want to make maps for solo gaming. Can they be used in other programs like Word or Powerpoint for making maps?
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Michael C November 14, 2020 12:52 am UTC
Yes you can use word and power point to make maps. I would follow the video linked above and use GiMP which is a free paint program. The steps he shows in that video work perfectly. I play at 15mm and scale my tiles down appropriately and GiMP makes it a lot easier to make maps or battle boards or even just individual rooms so that you can make a modular setup.
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JJ P November 20, 2020 2:02 am UTC
Thanks Michael. Appreciate the quick reply.

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Studio W November 21, 2020 12:07 am UTC
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I would avoid Powerpoint and Word and just go straight to GiMP, which has a very small learning curve to understand and use. There is a tutorial on my web site for using Map Tiles and GiMP (www.wyldfurr.com/gimp-map-tiles-tutorial).
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JJ P November 23, 2020 1:56 am UTC
Thanks for that suggestion. I don't have GIMP yet, and time wise it will be several weeks minimum but when I do get the chance I'll certainly check your tutorial.

I really appreciate the assistance!
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Rick S September 09, 2020 9:22 pm UTC
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What's your suggested method for making wider streets? Every road tile has a sidewalk edge, and there's only 10' of road. So I can't get a road more than 20' wide, since there are no middle of the road tiles. I see the stripes that can be placed as overlays, but no bare asphalt. Do you just recommend clipping off one of the other tiles? I'm not sure that will match up properly.
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Studio W September 09, 2020 11:34 pm UTC
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Clipping the files will show up as the edges will not match. Unfortunately when I was creating the roads I didn't foresee building roads wider than a single lane in each direction.
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JJ P May 25, 2020 2:53 am UTC
Are these designed to be used electronically or can they be printed out as well?
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Studio W May 25, 2020 6:19 am UTC
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The map tiles are aimed at making virtual tabletop adventure maps. But you can make printed maps if you change the DPI from 72 to 180 after you build the map. That way each map tile prints as a one inch square.
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Steve D May 26, 2016 10:41 pm UTC
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Found a neat little way to make this awesome pack even awesomer. You may find that the concrete/carpet floors get a little samey after a while. Well, have no fear. It's easy to make your own by resizing an appropriate seamless texture to 180x180. Walls can be easily added around it by using the External walls/Plaster Upper Level or External walls/Brick Upper Level sets, whose shadows have a gradient transparency, making them simple to overlay on top of custom floor textures.
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Steve D May 22, 2016 11:23 am UTC
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Great work, just about to leave a glowing review. My version of Photoshop (CS2) seems to want to open the tiles as a separate image, which then has to be cut-and-pasted into the template, but other than that, it's all good.
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Studio W May 29, 2016 4:42 am UTC
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Older versions of Photoshop might not have the "place linked..." or "Place Embedded..." functionality. What I do is drag'n'drop images from a File Explorer window into the open map image I am building. In my version of Photoshop they are placed as a "linked" image. But older versions should place them as a separate layer.

Or you could just grab GIMP as it places dragged images as new layers. But whatever method works best for you.
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Michael C March 23, 2016 6:01 pm UTC
Hello! It says there is a Sample Sheet to download so I can see all the tiles. However, I do not see where to download it from. Any ideas? Thank you.
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Studio W March 24, 2016 2:31 am UTC
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You caught me in the middle of making the sample sheet preview PDF. Clicking on the PDF icon should load the sample sheet preview now. I'm also making a few more preview images too. :)
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Michael C March 24, 2016 12:42 pm UTC
:) Are there roads with white/yellow lines in the middle? Mainly for a downtown map. Thanks!
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Studio W March 31, 2016 6:01 am UTC
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The roads don't have stripes down the middle because that is where the split between tiles is. But what I have included in the last update are some token stripes you can place on the roads when map building.
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