Use the Invisible trait.
If you need more control over your stacks and want it to be a bit smarter you
could then use the Invisible trait in conjunction with 2 triggers and a dynamic
property. Apply a Key command on the map window for whenever units/stacks move
- this key command fires off the dynamic property to select visibility status
(prompt selection). If visibility is off, trigger 1 hides the piece, if
visibility is on, trigger 2 makes the piece visible
Tim
Joel Uckelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thus spake "stine020":
> --- In [email protected], Joel Uckelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to get stacks of pieces where the piece on top and size
> of the
> > stack are visible to opposing players, but opposing players can't
> examine
> > the contents of the stack. I think there's a simple way to do this, but
> > I haven't been able to figure it out.
> >
> > (I think this shows that I spend too much time coding on VASSAL and not
> > enough time *using* VASSAL :)
> >
> > --
> > J.
> >
>
> Mask them like they were cards?
Unless masking works differently than I think it does, that's kind of
suboptimal as a solution. Pieces are either masked or not independent of
how they're stacked, right? Since the piece on top of each stack shouldn't
be masked, a player would have to mask/unmask tokens by hand after doing
moves which left previous stack-toppers burried or previously burried
pieces on tops of stacks. That would be irritating and error-prone.
If there really isn't a way to do this simply at present, then I'm going
to add it as a trait, called "Mask If Stacked Upon" or something like that.
--
J.
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