I am working on a module for Bonaparte at Marengo, and I uncovered an
annoying problem. The short explanation is when I created pieces using
the new masking feature "can be masked only by the named sides",
pieces in a deck appeared faceup instead of facedown, which is not how
I configured the deck.
The longer explanation is I created a bunch of French blocks. I set
the mask so the facedown appearance is solid blue and the faceup
option (what the French player sees) is an image -- a transparent
piece with a colored border. (Typical of the block games I've done.) I
then set the option that only the French player could mask the French
blocks.
I then created a deck on the gameboard for 12 French pieces. I set the
deck so all units are face down and are removed face down. When I
start the game as the Austrian player, the deck appears as a stack of
solid blue French backs. Good. When I start the game as the French
player, the deck appears as a stack of face up pieces. Not good. I'd
really prefer that the deck appear facedown as I configured it. I
suspect the pieces are actually facedown, but I'm getting the French
"peek" view of them.
On a related note, there's another "feature" that bugs me. If I create
a bunch of maskable pieces in a piece palette and later want to cut
and paste them via the editor to a deck, I can't do it. The editor
grays out the paste option. I am forced to create the pieces in the
deck from scratch. I am assuming this is because the deck contains
elements of type "Card" and pieces have to be created in a deck to be
cards.
Finally on a unrelated note, I discovered a completely different
problem while working on a module for For Honor and Glory. This game
has around 20 scenarios, which require I build landscapes, lay out
pieces for both sides, and save the games a scenarios, which I embed
in the module at the end. After I created a landscape, I would lay
out, say, the British pieces. First I would drag them from the piece
palette to the left side of the gameboard just to get the count right,
and then I would move them to their proper starting locations on the
right side of the board. I'd save the game. Now the odd part. When I
later would load the saved game, the British pieces would be in their
starting positions on the right side, AND there would be duplicate
British pieces on the left side where I had temporarily placed them!
Sometime only a couple bad duplicates would be there, sometimes none,
and sometimes the entired British army would be duplicated. This
happened again and again. I eventually had to move pieces directly
from the piece palette to their destinations and avoid the interim
stopover. This one scares me a bit.
Stan Hilinski
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