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Fergus Duniho (Fduniho)
| | Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 9:13 am: | |
In implementing Shogi for a Play-by-Mail system I recently designed for Chessvariants.com, I added the feature of switching the piece sets used by Black and White whenever the board gets flipped. This allows the board to be flipped without the pieces all turning upside-down. It would be very nice for games like Shogi, whose pieces are distinguished by orientation rather than color, to have the option of switching pieces between sides when the board is flipped. It might best be implemented similar to (symmetry ), specifying which player's pieces each player uses when the board is flipped. Alternately, the (piece ) command could get a new option called (flipimage ) or (flip-image ), which specifies what images to use when the board is flipped. When it wasn't set, the default would be to use the images specified with (image ). |
Patrick S. Duff (Pduff)
| | Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2001 - 9:43 pm: | |
There is more discussion about flipping the board image or piece images under the topic: "Rotating or flipping "the board"". |
Fergus Duniho (Fduniho)
| | Posted on Friday, July 27, 2001 - 10:13 am: | |
Another option, perhaps the best one, would be to allow the option of flipping the pieces when the board gets flipped. If you can rotate the board image 180 degrees, you can surely rotate each piece image 180 degrees too. This would work well for games like Shogi, as well as my Three Player Hex Shogi. Also, if you ever implemented board reorientation to any degree, this option could rotate pieces to the same degree as the board. |
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