| Pygon February 11th, 2012 3:47 PM Join date: May 22nd, 2009 Location: Fenton, MI Posts: 344 | As of TTop 121, map flares were added. You can SHIFT-tap the map quickly to drop a 4 second marker. What do you think? Too distracting? Useful? Give me your feedback here! | ||
| MadBeard February 21st, 2012 12:29 PM Join date: February 1st, 2012 Posts: 23 | I haven't noticed till today that you did a update  If this is what I think it is, then it's great  I'll try this immediately when I get home from work and I'll give you feedback. Btw, I started Kingmaker adventure path and my 4 players and I love it. Especially it's quite ease to run with TTopRPG | ||
| Pygon February 21st, 2012 5:50 PM Join date: May 22nd, 2009 Location: Fenton, MI Posts: 344 | Excellent, glad to hear it! I'm actually thinking about how I would add Glittercomm crayons, so that might happen as well. | ||
| MadBeard February 22nd, 2012 12:31 PM Join date: February 1st, 2012 Posts: 23 | Flares you added are useful, but using SHIFT key is little awkward because when you press SHIFT all icon statuses are visible. This is especially awkward when there is lot of icons on map (we had this situation yesterday). Maybe you could replace shift with another key? Altogether, for my gaming group, this flare is much better then regular markers. They don't have to delete them all the time If you could manage to do it, those crayons would be even more useful | ||
| Pygon February 22nd, 2012 8:02 PM Join date: May 22nd, 2009 Location: Fenton, MI Posts: 344 | Sadly Ctrl and Alt are taken up by other hotkey functions. SHIFT was all I had left. Ctrl click allows the GM to persistent select an icon or rectangle select many icons. Alt click starts a ruler. | ||
| MadBeard February 23rd, 2012 5:37 PM Join date: February 1st, 2012 Posts: 23 | Don't worry, we'll manage with shift I noticed one more thing that could be useful. When you place icon-feature, name of feature is invisible to players. Is it possible to implement in setting menu or in icon menu that GM can turn feature names on/off? Kingmaker is based on kingdom building - city building. I imported city grid as a map and buildings as features, because if buildings is as regular icons then icon rim is visible (square). And with features names invisible, players can't see wich buildings they have built. Don't bother if this is to complicated to implement. It's not that big deal, I'll set buildings as regular icons. Thanks very much | ||
| Pygon February 23rd, 2012 9:00 PM Join date: May 22nd, 2009 Location: Fenton, MI Posts: 344 | It's possible that a GM might or might not want a particular feature name to be visible for players. I'd rather not add another blank to the icon screen. However, if you give the building icons zero hp, they will have a simpler caption (neutral blue, no health status) | ||
| MadBeard February 25th, 2012 3:28 PM Join date: February 1st, 2012 Posts: 23 |
Sorry , but I not sure if I understand you.
I know that, but if it's not a feature then there is icon border visible and it's getting in a way, beacuse some buildings are rectangular shape, not a square. I have 1x1 building, 2x1 and 2x2. | ||
| Pygon February 25th, 2012 7:26 PM Join date: May 22nd, 2009 Location: Fenton, MI Posts: 344 | I just meant if you want optional borders or captions, those would be additional switches in the icon form. I want to keep the number of enterable options to a minimum. Hmm. Rectangular buildings. I don't know what to tell you. Unless you can place a 1ft size little white icon with no graphic and give that a name as a highlightable item on the building. That way players can hit SHIFT to see all the building they made or highlight each to inspect them, and leave the building graphics as features. TTop doesn't support rectangular highlightable icons/features. | ||
| MadBeard February 27th, 2012 6:20 PM Join date: February 1st, 2012 Posts: 23 | I know that ttoprpg doesn't support rectangular icons but I did found a solution. Buildings as icons with SHIFT on  Buildings as features  Green square is 40x40 ft and little green square (dashed white line) is 20x20 ft I set smallest building (Herbalist) 18x18 ft, largest (Arena) 32x32 ft and rectangular (Garrison) 32x32 ft. So my garrison and herbalist overlaps.
That would be nice if you can implement. If not, I'll use what you suggested. Another blank icon with name. Btw nice idea. It didn't cross my mind to do that |
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