Wonderdraft Academy - Custom Assets: where to find them and how to add them

hello everybody and welcome to this next video of the Wonder draft Academy my name is Edwin I'm a fantasy map maker and today's topic is one that is requested a lot both on uh the one draft Reddit in on Discord and um in the comments and in my personal inbox so um it seems like a proper topic to talk about and it is the custom assets the main question or questions that I will try to answer is where do I get these and how do you add or manage them you're currently looking at what I call my experiment map which I often use to try out new assets and see how well they work and combine with other things so you see a lot of different things there are trees and here in Strawberry Valley you see flowers of cybertrol there's a castle from campaign cartographer there are mountains by lapis um we have here more trees by cybertrol and more campaign cartographer and there are some mountains by AOA and cliffs as well so a lot of different things some crystals here uh here's some clouds from sulkanai volcanoes a lot of different things that I try out on this map the way that I get all those assets uh I have a view things that I mostly use to get them the first and Main Source is cartography assets.com here you can go to map making and to wonder draft to see all the assets that are compatible with Wonder draft you can of course search on whatever you need or just browse through all the pages with efforts some of them are for free some of them are paid some are for personal use only and some are with a commercial license but all that information is given in the asset pack another source is pro fantasy software for the campaign cryptographer where the assets not all of them I think but a lot of them you can also buy and download as pngs and basically any PNG file with transparent background you can use in Wonder draft so if you go to products and then to simple sets you can for example check out cities of slay if you would buy those you can make maps like this in Wonder draft although the assets aren't made for onedraft they are compatible with it another place where you can get assets is the roll 20 Marketplace keep in mind that most of these are for personal use only and not all of them are compatible with one draft so you can either check out any information or contact the creator um this is an example that I found which I think has quite some nice assets that are compatible with Wonder draft as you can see there are trees there are castles cities mountains a lot of different things and you can buy them in the marketplace of rule 20 and then as pngs add them to wonder draft and use them there another one of my favorites is KM Alexander who has a lot of frenzy brushes from old uh real maps that he makes available for use in well for example one of the draft but also Photoshop or wherever um they are very useful when you want to make a map that looks like it comes from the 17th century in this case for example the Donia Style and all those assets images you can add to your OneDrive Library another one a favorite one for one draft uses is two minute table top um here you have map maps and assets so you can buy and zoom out for free both complete Maps but also assets which you can use to make your own Maps um there are of course other possibilities uh if you Google you can probably find a lot more um as long as there are pngs with a transparent background you can use them so then comes the question how you add them to wonder draft then you have to go to I'm using Windows Explorer by the way and I uh won't be able to tell you how it works for other systems so I'm sorry about that if you use Windows does it if you use something else then I hope uh you can still make use of what I'm explaining so if you go to this folder it's a hidden folder you have to unhide it first before you can access it and then in assets you can see all the assets that you add yourself so these are all custom assets the default ones in one draft Bones show up and you shouldn't delete them or try to find them they're there and they stay there and that's it but the custom assets you can add here the folders inside uh asset pack I'm just opening a random one first you see is Sprites this is something you should always have if you go see here and you see directly all the pngs then they won't show in one draft you need a folder called Sprites and inside the Sprites you see mountains symbols and trees and if we go to wonder draft everything you put in mountains will show up when you click here on the mountain brush so it will be like as you can add them as a brush the same goes for the trees um they randomly pick a tree from any tree that you have in this folder like if you have four different trees it will randomly pick one so that you can make a bit of a variety in your Forest if you would add the same assets as a symbol which is the third category then they will not be used as a brush that takes a while to load up because I have quite a lot of assets active but um for example I have some threes from cybertrol also added as a symbol which means that you can not scroll and use them as a brush but you add them one by one and it's always the same for trees and mountains usually this isn't the way you would want it because you want to make a complete for us and not add them one by one but sometimes like for example with Mike's slays special mountains then like I don't want the whole Mountain to have caves but I want to pick myself where a cave or a full game always so I add them as a symbol so that I can pick one specific spot to place this volcano um so once you're in the symbol you see that I have a lot of folders again and the names of these photos doesn't really matter you can choose it yourself but it makes sense to start them all with the same like in this case blow um so that in Wonder draft or like the AOA or the cz3 that they are alphabetical and still together So Below I don't have active so let's go to cz3 color Sprites symbols here you see Compass Foothills fruit trees which you also see here Compass Foothills and fruit trees so these names will show up here um and then inside one of those folders this is an auto generated file by one draft once you open one draft it will make this file and the rest is just the pngs that you add yourself then to have them active inside one draft you also need to activate them here in the assets on top of your screen where you see first the default ones which are in one draft so you can turn them off but uh you can't remove them permanently and then all the other assets which corresponds to all these packs that I added here so this is like the main category I can hear turn off cg3 color but not specifically the special mountains or the volcanoes so if I would turn something off here let's do uh this one I'm not using on this map and it says that you have to save it and restart then there's a very important warning that if you do this with an asset that you actually do use on the map and you save it and restart you will get an error message saying that there is an asset missing and it can't display it if you then still continue working on that map then you won't be able to get it back again so it's very important to not change the names or the structure of your SS in the onedraft folder while you're making Maps because once you change things you screw up your whole system um then besides the mountains and the trees and the symbols there is another category for example in this one the rough sees and in Surprise and symbols you see the normal one that we had before but there's also textures so besides the Sprites the the textures which gives the boxes which is the one you can see and the labels boxes you see all these custom boxes that you can use and um there is the frames which in the overlay menu you can see here so you can change the frame around your map you can add custom frames which are also sometimes available on cartography assets or somewhere else and there is the ground texture and water texture which is called rough Seas which you can change if you go here to the water you can change the water texture to rough Seas which is a custom texture which you add separately so not in the Sprite Sprites but in the textures and there is one more thing which is the puffs let's see if our here is one of the political borders which are also in the textures folder and then paths and then you have these custom Buffs which show up in the path tool here um so that's where you can find everything and then here you can see how to order things and it should always look this way the cz3 color that is a name you can change the way you want it and also if you're in the symbols like cg3 Compass you can name it however you like but as that's here Sprites symbols those are names that you should always use and not change yourself and then we go to another important thing um if you go here again to the Assets in the menu you see that I haven't checked all the boxes if you do that your one draft will run quite slow it depends of course on your computer but the more assets you have active here the uh words 100 will run so it's important that if you're making a map to not have just every box checked but only do the ones that you actually plan to use but again that warning make sure that you don't use it when you uncheck it because if you do then you will mess up the system and then a little tip I can get for myself I don't know if it held but you have in the Wonder draft the assets and here I have the ones that I actually regularly use but I also have my own separate file um which I uh uh here I call it temporary not in use which are like for specific maps for example like here I needed a custom compass for a map called varum or in Verdun and then I still have it in the same structure Sprites and symbols with the third and name and there was this custom uh bit of heraldry that if I open the map where then I know like okay I first have to add this temporarily not in use it's a very big file and if I would have it load every time I load a different map then it just doesn't run smoothly so I park these assets that I rarely use in a temporarily not in use folder um and those are the the most important things for custom essays now you know where you can find them you know how to add them and um some warnings on what to do and what not to do and how to use them so I hope this was helpful if there are any questions just leave a comment and if you want to support my channel and make it possible that I do more of these then please check out my patreon website which you can see here patreon.com one draft Academy there's also a link in the comments where you can sign up and support my work and hopefully a lot of future tutorials thank you for watching and see you another time

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Length: 16min 43sec (1003 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 21 2023