Jim,
First up, create all your pieces in GamePiece pallette. This is by far the easiest way to organise your module. Just define all your pieces in sensible categories/menus so that they are easy to find. Later, you can hide the pallette so that it does not appear. There are two main ways to set up a Game Start file that is ready to go: 1. Define your pieces directly on the map using Decks and At-Start stacks. Personally, I do not recommend this method except fr very simple modules. It is inflexible and requires multiple copies of the same piece to be defined seperately. 2. Create any decks you require as empty decks and define all of your pieces in a Game Piece pallette. Pull out all of the pieces you require and place them on the board where you want them. The do a Save Game and create a save game file of the state of your board ready to play. You can the create a pre-defined setup component and load you start file into the module. Stacking behaviour is controlled in several places: 1. Overall stacking on the map is defined in te Stacking Options component of the Map. 2. Game Piece Layers can be defined for the map that define mulriple layers of stacking within any location, depending on attributes of the units. 3. Individual units can have a Do Not Stack attribute that has a Do Not Stack option. Regards, Brent. >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 30/06/2006 at 6:18 AM Jim wrote: >I've got a game board defined. I want to be able to place all the game >pieces (about 160) each in a specific place on the board. Some of >these pieces go in a stack (for random draw), but not all of them, >even those of the same type. > >1. How do I define a piece to just BE on the board? > >2. How do I make it so some pieces are stacked, and SOME are at >specific locations but are stackable with the others? Most pieces I >don't want stackable. > >I don't want to use a Palette. The pieces in the game are all of fixed >amounts. > > > ____________________________________________________________ Brent Easton Analyst/Programmer University of Western Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/IMSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vassalengine/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
