I am playing TI3 with friends where we own the game, so I manually added the description to each card. It shows up great!
We realized mid-game that the added text is displaying in the log when we move the card (effectively telling everyone what the card is!) And the text displays on the BACK of the card. There is other text on the card that doesn’t have this issue!
So I need to:
Remove description from the log
Stop displaying text on back
Can someone help me, and can I convert a saved game to use this module version after? I’d hate to restart.
I don’t know the module, so might not be of much help… I’ll try, but hopefully someone else can chime in.
How did you add the additional text? When you say it’s displaying in the log when the card’s moved, do you mean in the message window? And when you say other text on the card isn’t an issue, do you mean other added text?
The changing or converting a saved game, I definitely can’t help you with, sorry.
Just to add… just in case it helps immediately… if you can move however you added the text (layer, label,?) above the cards’ mask trait in trait order, that should hopefully solve the visibility issue while the cards are masked. In other words when you add a new trait, it’s added to the bottom, but you’d want to move it above the cards’ masking trait so the mask will cover it too when it’s on. Check out the pinned topic (Trait order in counters) in this forum for more on that.
I don’t think this will take effect until a new game is started though unfortunately, but I might be wrong.
When you edit a module, there’s a tool in the tools menu that is meant to be able to convert save files in an old format to match the current module.
I have zero experience using this tool, it might not even be appropriate, but it’s worth a look just in case it can fix your save file once you’ve fixed your text issue. Keep a backup before doing anything
I managed to fix the cards, I moved the label above the prototype or something and removed the description. It is great!
Now I have used the importer as explained in the help and it worked BUT the home system map tiles are now unmovable (I didn’t touch them at all) and the pieces are stuck under them. I can load the old stuff and convert back up but same issue. We might have to keep the home system tiles off to the side.