Cards and protocol request
Posted: 02 Sep 2008, 22:19
Of course first I must say that I really appreciate Zun Tzu... I am currently ready to tear my hair out, but finding that there was an elegant and simple solution to my problem out there was a wonderful surprise.
I am using Zun Tzu to playtest a game I have created with a friend who lives in another state. The game uses some 'counters' but is mostly hex tiles and three decks of cards. I actually first implemented the cards with the counter tags and had no problems. Still, a 50 card deck behaves a little ridiculously as a stack of counters so I did some searching and found out about card tags. I have done my best to search, but I have not found the answer I am looking for. I looked at the poker game box as suggested in one thread, but it only references one image file and I have separate images for front and back... and my problem is with getting the right image to appear on the card back. At first I was using front and back sheets of cards, like with counters, and when I flipped a card, the back would be the entire frontside graphic. Then I read another post that said the card backs are a single graphic so that they are all the same, so I made a single card back for the graphic, but now when I flip the cards, the backs are the frontside of the top left card on the sheet. Very odd. I am hoping someone can clear this up.
Also, I'd like to add that while I appreciate the natural language tutorial, a simple list of the tags that can be used and their functions would be helpful to have. If I had some idea about how the implementation of cards differs from counters in terms of code, I might have been able to sort it out myself.
Below is the game box file for reference.. thanks for any help:
I am using Zun Tzu to playtest a game I have created with a friend who lives in another state. The game uses some 'counters' but is mostly hex tiles and three decks of cards. I actually first implemented the cards with the counter tags and had no problems. Still, a 50 card deck behaves a little ridiculously as a stack of counters so I did some searching and found out about card tags. I have done my best to search, but I have not found the answer I am looking for. I looked at the poker game box as suggested in one thread, but it only references one image file and I have separate images for front and back... and my problem is with getting the right image to appear on the card back. At first I was using front and back sheets of cards, like with counters, and when I flipped a card, the back would be the entire frontside graphic. Then I read another post that said the card backs are a single graphic so that they are all the same, so I made a single card back for the graphic, but now when I flip the cards, the backs are the frontside of the top left card on the sheet. Very odd. I am hoping someone can clear this up.
Also, I'd like to add that while I appreciate the natural language tutorial, a simple list of the tags that can be used and their functions would be helpful to have. If I had some idea about how the implementation of cards differs from counters in terms of code, I might have been able to sort it out myself.
Below is the game box file for reference.. thanks for any help:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>
<game-box
name="Legion of Cats"
description="Welcome to fork-biting tension."
copyright="2006"
startup-scenario="loc.zts">
<map name="only" image-file="1inchhexes.jpg" resolution="150 dpi" />
<counter-sheet name="actioncards"
front-image-file="actioncards_front.jpg" front-resolution="150 dpi"
back-image-file="actioncards_back.jpg" back-resolution="150 dpi">
<card-section rows="8" columns="8"
face-left="0" face-top="0" face-right="800" face-bottom="1116"
back-left="0" back-top="0" back-right="100" back-bottom="139" />
</counter-sheet>
</game-box>