VBM Overlay Marker Extension v2.3

[apbills]

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VBM Overlay Marker Extension - VBM

This is an updated VBM overlay. It is located in the Draggable Overlays on its own tab. SELECT+Click is required to select the overlay, and CTRL+right, -Left, -Up, -Down "nudge" the overlay one pixel in the respective direction. CTRL+F flips which 3 sides of the hex have the transparent area for checking the width for VBM.
This extension was built using VASSAL 3.7.8 and VASL 6.6.8beta6a. Note that VASSAL 3.7.8 is most likely the most important thing as no changes in VASL 6.6.8b6a are...

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[apbills]

apbills updated VBM Overlay Marker Extension with a new update entry:

VBM Overlay Marker

Added 50% HIP function

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[apbills]

apbills updated VBM Overlay Marker Extension with a new update entry:

Added Mask Colors

This update adds 3 more mask colors, shades of red, green and blue. CTRL+C rotates through each different color mask.

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[apbills]

apbills updated VBM Overlay Marker Extension with a new update entry:

Updated with Deluxe sized VBM masks

This update adds the same VBM mask, upsized to fit deluxe sized hexes. It can be found in the Deluxe Draggable Overlays counter tray and works identically to the normal sized VBM mask.

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[ScottRomanowski]

I like this. It lets you nudge the mask to account for wall/hedge hexsides. :-D

I was dreaming that some day, if I ever made something for VASL, something like this would have been my first attempt. But I kept procrastinating and you beat me to it, adding features I never would have thought of.

 

[Jplott94]

Thank you for taking the time and effort to develop this extension. I'm just getting to the point in my ASL education that I can begin to understand some of the principles underlying VBM (well, all bypass movement actually...I'm still struggling) and the visual markers available in the VASL community really help. Again, thanks.

 

[apbills]

apbills updated VBM Overlay Marker Extension with a new update entry:

Adding SaFL size hex mask

This v2.3 file adds new masks for the SaFL mapboard sized hexes (1.25x normal size). The file is a .vmdx file renamed with the .zip extension so that it can be posted. Just download, rename the extension from .zip to .vmdx, and place in your extensions folder. remove the old v2.2 extension. If you do not play on that board, there is nothing new and no reason to download this update.

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[bprobst]

There seems to be an error with the Ctrl-C function (to change the colour). Trying it, the overlay disappears and this text appears in the main window:



Not a huge deal since you can just drag the overlay in the colour that you want, and everything else seems OK. but, a bug is a bug.

VASL 6.6.8, VASSAL 3.7.14, Windows 10 (64-bit).