johnl
Senior Member
See image LOS from 43DD9 to 48C4. I see 3 hindrances in the depicted LOS - 48D8 grain, 48C8 grain, and 48C9 orchard. Verbose LOS reports 1 hindrance. It looks like the grain was not counted.
LOS Issue Boards 43 48
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PresterJohn
Senior Member
You get a funny result if you string from 43EE9 to 48B6 too.
Larry
Elder Member
It should also catch the C9 orchard at the vertex for +3 total.
PresterJohn
Senior Member
It is catching the orchard because you can see the thread change colour at the vertex, but it has an error on the summing of the hindrances.
Jon
Senior Member
It should be +2 Hindrances, +1 for Grain in C8 and then +1 for either C9 orchard or D8 grain
You don't count both C9 and D8 because both hexes are 3 hex range from the firer in 43DD9. See A6.7 last two sentences and the example
Cheers
Jon
PresterJohn
Senior Member
Then EE9 to B6 is fine.
Perhaps the string is not catching the edge of the grain in C8.
Perhaps the string is not catching the edge of the grain in C8.
The problem is in 48C8. If you reverse the string (from 48C6 to 43DD9) you will see that it is not picking up the the 48C8 grain.
The problem is caused by flipping board 48. If you set up the map with 48 on top and 43 below and flipped, you will have (a) a correct map configuration and (b) no problem with the 43DD9 to 48C6 LOS. Of course, you are likely to find similar los errors on 43 now that it has been flipped.
When a map is flipped the pixel-by-pixel losdata is flipped as well and so is the hex grid alignment. Since the geometry of VASL board .gifs is a bit wonky this can cause minor issues at the margin of hexes (a pixel may be calculated to be in the wrong hex), and I suspect that flipping increases the chances of this taking place.
Clearly, a bug in the machine, I will note it as such. I suspect the search for a solution will take a bit of time.
The problem is caused by flipping board 48. If you set up the map with 48 on top and 43 below and flipped, you will have (a) a correct map configuration and (b) no problem with the 43DD9 to 48C6 LOS. Of course, you are likely to find similar los errors on 43 now that it has been flipped.
When a map is flipped the pixel-by-pixel losdata is flipped as well and so is the hex grid alignment. Since the geometry of VASL board .gifs is a bit wonky this can cause minor issues at the margin of hexes (a pixel may be calculated to be in the wrong hex), and I suspect that flipping increases the chances of this taking place.
Clearly, a bug in the machine, I will note it as such. I suspect the search for a solution will take a bit of time.
Tuomo
Keeper of the Funk
Wonder if you could keep a flipped version of the user's chosen board configurration in memory and then compare the flipped LOS to the non-flipped, as you have done here. If they differ, that could flag the problem and maybe there's a simple way forward from there.
Or else just fix the original problem
Or else just fix the original problem