Brent, I appreciate the advice but you've lost me. What does '^F Flip' Activate command refer too? Also, are you talking about two separate layer traits in the unit properties, i.e, a main layer trait and a flip layer trait? I suppose I should download the VSQL module and take a look.
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Easton To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [vassalengine] Facing direction and "replace with" trait. Rotate is the way to go However, VSQL inherited the 6 layer style of rotating and also has flip sides and does it like this: - The main layer is always active - The flip layer is defined after the main layer has a '^F Flip' Activate command and uses the same Increase and Decrease Key strokes as the main layer, but has no command names When you increase/decrease the main layer to change the facing, the flip layer will also increase/decrease and change facing even though it is not active. When you do the '^F Flip' command to activate the flip layer, it is already at the same facing. Using 'Replace' to do this sort of thing is painful. Cheers, Brent. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/12/2006 at 8:23 PM Gary Krockover wrote: I'm just curious Dave as to why you wouldn't use a "rotate" trait on the counter with the reduced unit as the only layer? GJK At 07:14 PM 12/6/2006, you wrote: >I have a game where I have a counter with the "layer" trait with six levels to represent the six hexagonal facing directions. That works fine. But I want to be able to flip the counter to represent a reduced unit of the same type that also has the identical "layer" triats representing the same facing directions. I'm using the "replace with" trait and it works fine except the "replace" counter does not retain the same facing/layer as the original counter even though it has the identical layer traits levels. I checked the box that is supposed to retain the same traits but it doesn't work. According to the help info, the replacement counter should retain the same facing. Any suggestions? > >Thanks, Dave Briggs __________________________________________________________ Brent Easton Analyst/Programmer University of Western Sydney Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
