The Battlemap projector hangs on the ceiling, the adventure is prepared and everything is ready for the first RPG session! But at the first battle, the image quality leaves more than a little to be desired! The Infinite Realms team has tested tablecloths, pads, screens and reflective paints for you!

Here are some links to similar products as the one we tested:
Projector Paint (30 bucks for 1/4 gallon): [ Ссылка ]
Canvas: [ Ссылка ] or [ Ссылка ]
Acrylic Spray Paint: [ Ссылка ]
PVC/Vinyl Tablecloth: [ Ссылка ]
Rubber Mat: [ Ссылка ]

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00:00 Introduction
00:54 Test Setup
03:01 Bare Tabletop
03:20 Granny's Tablecloth
03:45 Plastic Tablecloth
04:06 Rubber Mat
04:47 Canvas & Paints
05:33 Wrapping Paper
06:03 Conclusion

We installed a ceiling mount for the projector at both Nina and Danny's place, as well as Jessi's and mine. Unfortunately, our two tables are not particularly suitable as a projection surface by themselves. So far, we've made do with a regular white tablecloth - Nina has one made of fabric and Jessi has one made of plastic - but Peter Fisher's comment under our video comparing TV cases to projectors gave us the idea to look at other options!

We've had our sights set on a white heavy duty rubber mat for a while now, and we got it for this test. We took Peter's tip and got some canvas frames, like the ones artists use for their paintings.

Of course, our tablecloths - cotton and high-gloss plastic - are not forgotten, nor is the blank wooden tabletop!

Since we don't have any instruments to test the luminous flux scientifically correct, we had to come up with something. We will take 4 photos of the battlemap of each setup with fixed values on the camera, so that the pictures are comparable. As a testmal we will use the Forgotten Graves 3D Szenario from the Infinite Realms tabletop battle map projection software. To do this, we will load 2 different battlemaps into Infinite Realms - one quite bright and one quite dark - and photograph each of them in a brightly lit and sparsely lit room.
In addition, we will take notes on brightness, contrast, colors, reflections and general image quality, recording our subjective impressions.
For the evaluation we then compare the brightness on the photos and incorporate our personal impressions! At the end we will grade each solution by image quality, distracting reflections and cleanability.

We first took the bare wooden tabletop as a reference. The result was as catastropphic as we thought. The next subject was a simple white cotton tablecloth - with mixed results.
A modern alternative to grandma's tablecloth is a high-gloss plastic tablecloth. The picture quality is really good, but at the cost of annoying reflections that are clearly visible.
The fourth piece was a white rubber mat we found in an online store. For the final test we painted a canvas with 2 different colors - a regular matte finish and a special reflective projector paint - and left a part blank with the original canvas white.
During the filming, a roll of wrapping paper fell into our hands and that's when we had the idea of testing the white reverse side!

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