Joel Toppen made a tutorial videos about Vassal.
First one is on creating counters with GIMP:
youtube.com/watch?v=tkGGrnzg7Hw
Joel’s procedure, while quite straightforward, requires few manual steps–which is quite tedious, particularly when you have to deal with hundreds of counters.
Usually I would use ImageMagick but this time I decided to give GIMP a try.
There is this wonderful tool called AutoHotKey [1]. It is scripting language with which you can simulate pressing key, mouse clicks; it goes much further than that of course, it is fully fledged programming language. But only with its basic functionalities I managed to automatize steps from Joel’s video to one simple key combination (Ctrl-1 in my case). Take a look:
Macro which I would use (it is language dependant so it won’t necessarily work on your PC):
^1::
SetKeyDelay, 150
Send,
(
^c^+v
{Tab}
^a!z{Down 8}{Enter}2{Enter}
!z{Down 11}{Enter}{Tab}11{Enter}
^i^,
^i!z{Down 9}{Enter}2{Enter}
^i{Del}
^+e
)
return
Simple as that. Creating one counter takes now about 10 seconds, literally!
It outputs counters as shown below:
/pic4726000.png)
[1]. autohotkey.com/