Counter alignment

BigAl737 · July 10, 2009, 7:09am

I’m new to Vassal so forgive me if this question is too easy. I’ve searched the forums and couldn’t find the answer.

Is there a way to pull a counter from the tray to the map and have it snap align with the horizontal hexgrid? (like the counter marked “moved” in the picture below). Thanks very much.

Shad · July 10, 2009, 12:40pm

Just to clarify, are you asking:

A) how to get a counter to snap to grid

B) how to get a counter to automatically rotate before being placed on the map

A is done by default, B is a little trickier. I’ve done it before but forgotten the process, lemme see if I can dig up that old module…

Shad · July 10, 2009, 12:49pm

OK, I lied. However, I do remember asking this exact question a long time ago.

In my module, which I just dug up for 2007(!), I just loaded all the images rotated to the orientation I wanted.

Lemme see if I can dig up the original question and answer either here or in the VASSAL mailing list…

Shad · July 10, 2009, 12:54pm

Well, this blows.

Yahoo! Group’s search is broken, so even though I am positive this was discussed on the old VASSAL ENGINE group I can’t dig up the messages because I can’t search the archives.

You’ll have to wait for one more knowledgeable than I to pop in and educate you!

Sorry dude.

BigAl737 · July 11, 2009, 6:13am

Thanks Shad. I was going to resort to loading the images in the 90 right orientation to start with but figured I wasn’t the first to encounter this issue.

And I am asking how to do “B” in your post above.

uckelman · July 19, 2009, 2:42pm

Thus spake “Shad”:

Search seems to be working now. You might want to try again.

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BigAl737 · July 21, 2009, 4:23am

I found the following on the Yahoo vassalengine group site. Message 8861. I’d like to incorporate Rodney’s second option. Now I just need to figure out what it means. Thanks for your help.

Re: [vassalengine] With Horizontal hex rows counters need to rotated 30d when placed.

I have a map that has a horizontal grid when I place a counter on the
map it is pointing a a hexspine. I need to rotate it 30 degrees on
placement is there a property to make this happen.

You can always rotate the piece in the Game Piece Palette before you save the module in the editor. That’s definitely simplest.

If you want to reset the rotation when you move the piece to the map (say, from another map), you can use the Map Window’s properties to define a keyboard command that fires when a piece is moved on the map. If you are using a Layer to do the rotation, you can set the keyboard command to the “Reset” command for that Layer. You’d have to combine it with a Trigger Action and Dynamic Property if you only wanted the action to fire the first time you placed the piece on the map.

rk