Thus spake "dkbowman_1": > There is a nice Cyberboard Set of Pacific War I found on the Mark > Herman web site. What's involved in converting the cyberboard set into > a module for Vassal? > > David >
A Cyberboard gamebox contains two kinds of thing which you need to extract: token faces and maps. The only way I know of to extract maps is by loading a blank map and taking a snapshot within CB. To extract token faces, you need to export all of the token faces as GTLs, and then use something to unpack the GTLs into individual bitmaps. There is software out there to unpack GTLs. E.g., I've written a Perl script called gtl2bmp.pl, which unpacks GTLs into BMP files, and can be found if you search through the archives of the Cyberboard mailing list, and I think theres a programa called GTLEditor or somesuch out there as well. GTLs unfortunately don't contain any information about which token faces go together to form a token. (That information is in the gamebox, and the file format is not public yet. It's probably a waste of time reverse-engineering the file format, since it will presumably become public when CB has its first open-source release. Once all of this is public, I'm going to write a converter.) So now you have all of the pieces, and you can build a module from them like you would normally. BTW, you know that we have a forum now, right? http://forums.vassalengine.org If you prefer lists, here's instructions for how to subscribe to the list which mirrors the forum: http://vassalengine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=63 -- J.
