Fixing the Large Nameplate Problem

You may get into a state where character nameplates become really large relative to their icons. It looks like this, and makes life difficult.

Big Nameplate

This is due to the Cell Height setting or the page Cell Width property becoming less than 1.0 either as a result of changing it by accident or by agreeing to do a Change Size for VTT after dragging an image into the map layer.

To Fix Future Maps

We are going to set your default Cell Height setting back to 1.0

  1. Go to your campaign launch page, and click the Settings dropdown and select Game Settings
    Launch Screen
  2. Scroll down a bit and select Game Default Settings. Double check the Cell Height property and make sure that it is set to 1.0
    Game Default Settings
  3. If not, set it to 1.0 and then scroll down a bit and click Save Defaults. This will fix all future maps.
    Save Defaults

To Fix Existing Maps

We are going to set the page Cell Width property back to 1.0

  1. Click on the extend icon in the upper right to extend the My Pages ui.
    Gear Icon
  2. Find your page and click on the gear icon to get the Page Settings
    Gear Icon
  3. Scroll down to find Cell Width, set it to 1.0.
    Cell Width
  4. Click Save Settings
    to save your change.
  5. Note that your hex size and the page size will probably be wrong now and will need correcting. Return to the main page to set the correct page hex units and dimensions