Play by post or email

Any interest in something like this?

http://www.motcreations.com/forumfiles/aamini_screenshot.jpg

I posted this originally over at the AH forum where they were trying to do play-by-post with MS Paint.

Mot

That’s a good point, there are a lot of units!

I’d be willing to dedicate some time to such a project, but I’d need some help.  Both from locating/creating images to use (I pulled some off the net from some sight that was selling them as singles and modified them), and also from a pure design stand-point (how many pallet tabs, how big to make the units, what other icons to use, etc).

I can help convert inages or I can just assemble them into a module.  Perhaps I should ping a couple of the people on the AH forum that seem to be pretty active with AA Minis and see if they will join this discussion too?

Mot

How big should we be looking at?  My prototype used hexes about 60 pixels per side.

For the new version of MapView I’m adding the ability for modules to support multiple images per unit, and the player can “flip” through them via the standard right-click menu.  I think that will be the best way to handle facings, something along the lines of Right Click -> Flip Image To -> Northwest Direction.

Mot

I haven’t played AA Minis before (though it looks awesome)…is there a maximum number of units in a single hex?

Mot

That’s a nice looking collection!  Are those your images or are the from the Avalon Hill “Gallery”?

Mot

How does this look for the size/apperance of the units?Â

How many need to fit in a single hex?

Mot

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Why does the file attaching always mess with the images?  The original was a 77 pixels high but I just measured the one rendered by IE and it was 97 pixels high, making it looked streched.

Mot

@djensen:

@Motdc:

How big should we be looking at? My prototype used hexes about 60 pixels per side.

For the new version of MapView I’m adding the ability for modules to support multiple images per unit, and the player can “flip” through them via the standard right-click menu. I think that will be the best way to handle facings, something along the lines of Right Click -> Flip Image To -> Northwest Direction.

Mot

So you’re going to flip and rotate the image to accomplish the correct facing? I’d be happy with facing markers or the arrows.

Not exactly, though the phrase “Flip” did kind of imply that.  The feature I was describing is more like flipping over a counter, or flipping through a pad of images.  So the flip-based solution would involve taking the base image of a tank and making 6 images out of them, each that has a different direction arrow on it.  The Flip feature would just let the user select which image is the current image for the unit.

In the short term, just having a direction-facing indicator will absolutely work.

Mot

Well, I was thinking that MapView would do the job with not too much effort.  The initial screenshot was one of a smaple module actually running in MapView.  But I didn’t want to do too much work on it unless there was actually some interest in it.

Mot

Does anyone still have the map downloads?  They were available from AH before, but I went to work on the module just now and they have been pulled.  Anyone still have the maps?

Mot