Editing Advanced PDA Node Editing (section)

=== Making 'Art' ===
For the most part, it's probably better to stick to descriptions of art. But there are cases where it might be useful to try and make actual visuals in your nodes - for example, see this map at node #3439: <nowiki>https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/739cxgrjkp7.png</nowiki>

Michael Cox's player originally made this map, but some changes to the game required it be updated from scratch, and that was really, really tricky. Some things you should keep in mind if you're trying to do stuff like this:

1) I stuck to a set width instead of center-justifying the map prettily, because a map would fall apart if word-wrapped.

2) I counted up the spaces and used find-and-replace to do sets of them - for example, every 'big' room was the size number of spaces every time.

3) The line numbers matter- for lines 0 through 9, the line numbers are one character shorter than 10-99, so I had to add one extra space manually to map lines 6-9 to offset. Yikes.

4) Something like this is 100% illegible for screenreaders, probably, so consider how you might add alt-text or a similar functionality to make sure everybody can benefit! I added a set of word-only directions to node #3602 in this case to try and serve as an alternative. 
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