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Re: Change the Layout with custom tiles

Postby Redav » April 2nd, 2015, 8:53 am

Gold Bearer wrote:Then I realised that you can manually add stuff by replacing existing content.

That aside, does anyone know how to add another board layout? I just had a quick stab at changing the USA one to something else but HS wouldn't start. I was wondering if the menu might have been driven by the content of the objects.xml file. I too had been wondering whether it was possible to change the board layout to something else other than the original board (not so much room tiles). I figured you could just swap the rasters and I guess find a program to edit the EPS.
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Re: Change the Layout with custom tiles

Postby Count Mohawk » April 2nd, 2015, 9:56 am

Redav wrote:That aside, does anyone know how to add another board layout? I just had a quick stab at changing the USA one to something else but HS wouldn't start. I was wondering if the menu might have been driven by the content of the objects.xml file. I too had been wondering whether it was possible to change the board layout to something else other than the original board (not so much room tiles). I figured you could just swap the rasters and I guess find a program to edit the EPS.

The way to add things to HeroScribe, whether they be boards or icons, is to edit Objects.xml. The easiest way to do it would be to copy the code for a different board and edit it to reference your new board instead of whatever it was looking at originally. So for example, lines 113-116 of my Objects.xml file:
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<board name="Advanced HeroQuest" width="50" height="50" borderDoorsOffset="0.08" adjacentBoardsOffset="-0.5">
<icon region="Europe" path="Europe/AdvancedHeroQuestBoard_EU" />
<icon region="USA" path="USA/AdvancedHeroQuestBoard_US" />
</board>

If I wanted to add, say, "Count Mohawk's Custom Board", I would copy this code down one line and change it so it read like this instead:
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<board name="Count Mohawk's Custom Board" width="28" height="19" borderDoorsOffset="0.08" adjacentBoardsOffset="-0.5">
<icon region="Europe" path="Europe/MohawkBoard_EU" />
<icon region="USA" path="USA/Mohawk_US" />
</board>

...and, of course, make sure that the image files I was pointing it at were named and located in the appropriate place, as designated by their "path".


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Re: Change the Layout with custom tiles

Postby Redav » April 2nd, 2015, 4:45 pm

I can't get it working like that, HS won't start. So far the only thing I can get working is;

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<board width="26" height="19" borderDoorsOffset="0.08" adjacentBoardsOffset="-0.5">
<icon region="Europe" path="Europe/Redav_EU" />
<icon region="USA" path="USA/Board_US" />


So I can change what map say the Europe region looks for, but I can't add another region. I also didn't find any instance of <board name> so how does that work for you? I even tried sticking in your text at the same spot and it didn't run.
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Re: Change the Layout with custom tiles

Postby Redav » April 3rd, 2015, 2:31 am

Okay, I now see the problem. I realised that I needed to have installed the Just Boards Icon Pack. I don't think I need to worry about my earlier question now :)
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Re: Change the Layout with custom tiles

Postby Anderas » April 6th, 2015, 2:12 am

Did you try the all-in Icon pack? Stratos did some helpful thing with it, have a look.


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Re: Change the Layout with custom tiles

Postby Redav » April 6th, 2015, 4:18 pm

Yeah, I have a couple of installs including that one. I'm going to try sticking the semi modular rooms into the all icons. Unless his zip has that already?
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Re: Change the Layout with custom tiles

Postby StratosVX » April 6th, 2015, 6:51 pm

The zip contains all the available map packs as well as all the icons.


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Re: Change the Layout with custom tiles

Postby Redav » April 7th, 2015, 7:12 am

Yup, okay. I didn't realise that all the modular rooms had been consolidated into 'Room Borders' category. Nice work |_P
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