Altering a marker - HTTR

Module Design
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I have made significant alterations to the Highway to the Reich module to make it faster to play and make it more historically accurate. I am repurposing two markers and wondered how do I alter them?

  1. Set up markers - wording becomes ‘German Objective’ and Allied Objective. I would like to be able to add a label so that it can be assigned to a particular unit.

  2. The used marker, allied and German - wording changes to ‘Pinned’

I would appreciate advice, I have no knowledge of editing Vassal whatsoever.

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You might want to look at the Text Label trait.

Also, as you are completely new to editing Vassal, I recommend investing some time in watching the Vassal 101 series on YouTube.

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Thankyou. Sadly it is beyond me. I cant find where the files are stored that I want to alter

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A workable solution for what I am trying to achieve is to be able to add an in game editable label to counters. It could just be to the setup counters or to any unit of either side. I have tried various means of doing this without any success over several years. Help would be greatly appreciated.

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Could you say a bit about where you are at in terms of editing a Vassal module? As Mark suggested above, a good starting point is to watch Video tutorials on module development. Also, read the Designer’s guide (PDF), as well as relevant posts on Module Creation.

If you’ve watched those, or acquired some understanding of editing Vassal modules in one way or another, then - as Mark suggested - you could add a Text Label trait to your marker pieces or some prototype that those pieces use.

This will add a context-menu (right mouse - or Mouse-2 - click on a piece) entry that allows you to add text to a marker.

Have you tried to contact the module author of Highway to the Reich: Operation Market-Garden 17-26 September 1944 – 2nd Edition @imikem? (click this tag and press the Message button). Perhaps “MM” will add what you need. It seems the module Highway to the Reich: Operation Market-Garden 17-26 September 1944 – 2nd Edition is actively maintained (last update was 2 months ago).

Yours,
Christian

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Replied by email. Thanks.