TLDR:
- new map tool with pins, regions, paths, labels, measuring, fantasy navigation, and multiplayer cursors
- New project filter tool and multi-select in the left sidebar
- Global tag management in the LK menu. (rename & delete)
- New asset manager with Unsplash and Pinterest integration
- Map embed block for pages and the right sidebar
- Emoji overhaul
The long version:
- A brand new map tool!
- Pins
- Control whether the pin label is hover, always, or never show.
- Hold Ctrl while using pin tool to snap to paths and regions.
- Regions
- Create regions with fill style, stroke style, text labels, etc.
- See area and perimeter of region when map is calibrated.
- Border-borrow: Use Ctrl when making a region to snap to the border of another region. Close a region along another regions border to automatically use the border.
- Paths
- Catalog roads, paths, etc. with styled roads.
- Dynamically display path labels at various zooms, much like Google Maps.
- See length of path when map is calibrated.
- Hold Ctrl to snap.
- Labels
- Create text labels with different colors, fonts, and sizes
- Measuring
- Calibrate your map by measuring and providing a distance in miles or kilometers.
- Re-use that distance for measurements using the measure tool.
- Once calibrated, your map shows a dynamic, accurate range key in the bottom left.
- Zoom Visibility controls
- Control which map layers show at what zoom levels, enabling you to make stylish zoom-dynamic maps.
- A new Map Toolbar
- Pins
- Pin tool, text tool, region tool, path tool, measure tool
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Tool Lock mode, to rapidly drop pins, make paths, etc.
- A new visual pin editor that doesn’t interrupt your flow
- Customize label display rules for most things
- A large variety of style rules for all map layer types.
- The Link section of the pin editor auto-fills the Link Existing flow if the pin has name match with a page from your world.
- New map layer right-click context menu
- Use menu to easily link unlinked layers pins/regions/paths/labels.
- Use menu to easily unlink map layers.
- Use mini swatch picker to quickly customize colors.
- Multi-select
- Hold shift to box-select multiple items on the map.
- Mass edit map objects to change their colors and styles.
- A new map sidebar (with multi-select)
- Style your pins, regions, labels, and paths before you drop them in.
- Nest your map layers into groups
- Pins will favor clustering into hierarchical groups when available
- Multi-select with shift and ctrl to move and delete pins en masse.
- Right click a group to hide/solo a map layer group.
- New finder field that lets you filter your pins by name and tags
- Navigation using paths
- Activate navigation mode on map to see traveling directions that incorporate path names, landmarks via pins, etc.
- Customize travel speed to see how long a journey might take.
- Undo-redo
- The map now supports undoing and redoing most actions with Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-Shift-Z.
- Map Multiplayer
- Map now shows multiplayer cursors, like wiki pages and boards.
- Duplicate map objects using Ctrl+D or context menu.
- A powerful new right-click radial menu that lets you access your four new map tools quickly.
- Pins must be selected to be dragged, eliminating accidental drags while panning.
- Pins now make a “plop” sound when you drop them. Disable sounds in LK menu.
- Unified public view and private view with same map engine.
- A brand new WebGL powered rendering engine that can display many more pins smoothly
- Sidebar image block height can now be customized.
- New map block
- Embed maps into your pages and right-sidebar.
- When a map block detects a pin for the host page, auto-centers on that pin on the map.
- Press Edit button to otherwise customize the viewport for the map block.
- Quickly navigate to map via the Open button.
- Improvements to project browser
- New finder bar:
- Filter your pages by both name and tags.
- Click filter button or type # to quickly filter by tags.
- Otherwise type to filter by name.
- Redesigned sidebar with a more consistent design.
- Project sidebar now supports multi-select
- Multi-select using shift and ctrl to mass-move, mass-hide, and mass delete project pages.
- Project sidebar now has new modes:
- Assets tab (see details below)
- Map tab (when viewing a map)
- Search button moved to top center of top bar.
- New finder bar:
- New assets sidebar
- A new way to engage with your files via your project sidebar, in addition to the assets dialog.
- View your assets as a grid or list in the sidebar.
- Easily search your files and drag and drop images into your project.
- Drag images to property bar to make image property.
- Drag images into articles to insert images.
- Drag images into banner to quickly set banner.
- New third-party asset integrations that support drag and drop image operations:
- Unsplash.com for easily finding stock images to use in your projects.
- Pinterest.com to easily wire up LegendKeeper to your Pinterest boards.
- New global tag manager
- See an overview of all tags in your project
- See usage count of each tag in your project
- Mass-rename and mass-delete tags across your project.
- Emoji overhaul
- For consistency across platforms, standardized emojis via Twemoji, a Creative Commons emoji set that’s used by Discord and many other platforms.
- No more layout and size differences between emojis across operating systems.
- Reduced the size of the emoji set; extremely rare emojis may not render properly anymore. We can add emojis back by demand (we’ll have to design the emojis ourselves though, so keep that in mind.)
- Moved global Search function to central, top position in app.
- App UI polishing
- Tweak padding and visual clustering
- Tweak font sizes and colors for readability and cognitive load.