Grid Cartographer - Version 4.0.4 Available

While working on getting Grid Cartographer on Steam, a new release (version 4.0.4) has been made available, with the following highlights:

Fog-of-War

• Draw opaque hidden / fog tiles in several built-in styles.
• Export images with/without fog for players and Dungeon Master respectively.
• Works on both square and hex grid types.

Game Link

• New auto-tracking profiles for Wizardry IV and Wizardry VII.
• Notification that a game is detected for clearer operation.
• Option to quickly switch to split screen view and setup a new map.

Scripting (Preview)

• First giant step towards scripting support, powered by a customised version of Squirrel.
• Scripted data export. Built-in example provide exports tile maps to .CSV.
• Console window with a simple command line interface inspired by CP/M and DOS.
• 100+ pages of scripting documentation in PDF format. More scripting features will be added in future updates!
• Check out the new scripting forum for more scripts and help writing your own.

Enhanced Mesh Export

• Native support for Unity and Unreal Engine 4 via the .obj mesh format.
• Auto-scale to Unreal units.
• Material/sub-mesh splitting controls for more control.
• Meshes now include explicit Vertex Normals.

Streamlined theme selection

• Theme selection now has its own Setup menu page.
• Option to apply map theme (and fog) changes to all regions with one click.
• Automatically use the last selected theme and fog-style for new maps.

Grid Cartographer 4 now requires a 64-bit operating system

• 32-bit operating systems are no longer supported.
• This applies to both the Gamer and Pro editions.

Many bug fixes

• Greatly reduced CPU usage on Linux and macOS systems.
• Linux version now has partial support for HiDPI displays.
• Restored the clipboard preservation behaviour of older versions.
• Allow some keyboard shortcuts to work in the file menu (such as load and
• save).