Apologies for my delayed response here, spotty WiFi connections have taken their toll on my internet ability while traveling.



In theory, it should use the units of whoever is hosting the game and the client should automatically download the required assets. In practice, I've not tested it.

One of my goals for when I get back is to make adding new units easier and more modular so they can be shared and plugged in more easily.

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For now I'm only going to hand out to those who ask.



As mentioned above, it'll use the files held on the host of the game's PC. The sprites were mostly grabbed from various vassal packages though heavily edited in some cases. Yay, double infringement.

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Square is totally possible or any shape really. I went with circle because it makes measuring distances easier; rotation doesn't affect where the furthest point is, so measuring from the centre is always accurate. With square, or worse, rectangular bases players could gain extra movement by rotation, as all distances are displayed from centre to centre.

If people are OK with that issue, I can make template bases in other shapes when I get back.

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Anyone got a game in yet?

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Guess not. Anyone else fancy a copy?

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Who has it, out of curiosity?

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I'm hoping to use it for a campaign that MagnusIlluminus is running pretty soon. I passed the link on to him - I hope that's ok?

I'm going to put together some tau graphics this weekend if I get a chance.

Yeah, I'm OK with the link being passed around, as long as it doesn't get posted publicly.

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I'd like a copy

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Don't start from scratch! All the Tau units (and all the other races) have excellent sprites from 40k players playing and modding Vassal. Re-use the existing excellent sprites. I'm not sure of the best method to get the image files seperately out of the Vassal files, but I was resorting to print screen then cropping around each figure and pasting onto a base (5 per base for infantry).

There's a good forum for 40k Vassal with various downloads for mods here.

PM sent with link and suggestion to arrange a game.

Nice one Glyn, I knew about this but had forgotten! I'll see I can do.

We need one of these CAD dudes to get on the case really! I'd love to at least see what a 3d sprite looks like in this...

For anyone who's interested you can access the images in a vassal mod by editing the file name of the mod file to end .zip. From there you can open it like any other zip file - there'll be an images folder inside...

Square/rectangular bases would be good by the way - one guy had his tau on 40x30's recently and they look pretty sweet. No big deal if that's awkward though...

Completely fine from a modelling point of view, but potentially an issue for in game measuring. I'll put different base shapes on my todo list for when I get back (mid august)

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So I've been away a month now, anyone played a game yet?

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