Military building icons

[Eric Bondura]

Has anybody been able to use these? I can place the buildings on the map but the actual building hex properties don't line up with the placement of the graphics on the map.
Can anybody help?

[Dan Bozza]

If I understand your question correctly, regardless of the icon that is placed on the map, the program makes a 3 X 3 hex grid of "Building Hexes". You must go back and change the hexes around the building to clear hexes, even though they look clear. For example,

X X X
B B B
X B X

'B' represents the building icon. The 'X' represent hexes that appear to be clear, but put your cursor over those hexes, and they will show up as building hexes. Simply change the X hexes to clear terrain, and you should be fine.

[Wild Bill]

Excellent answer, Boz. Nothing to add here!

Wild Bill

[Eric Bondura]

What happens is I place a multihex military building on the map ( select multihex building, and enter 6 for military-type building as opposed to residential, industrial, or city)and the building graphics are not placed in the same hexes assigned building properties for movement, cover, concealment and so on.
It goes something like this, where G equals the building graphic and X equals the hex assigned as stone building. G + X equals building graphic and hex properties coinciding in one hex, as it
seems it should be.

G G
G G G+X X
G G+X X X
X X



So a military building that should cover 7 hexes (1 central hex plus the six adjacent hexes)covers a nearby set of seven hexes, but only two of those that are covered by the building graphic.

Let me say that I appreciate your taking time to answer my question.

Also, much gratitude to the Matrix guys for all their hard work! Things just keep getting better
all the time.

[Warhorse]

Hmmm, would appear that some graphics got by quality control!! They are not aligned properly in the shpedit program!! This is a very easy thing to happen with terrain graphics, they align differently than vehicles, the reason I stayed with mainly doing all the vehicle graphics, terrain drove me nuts!!

[Flashfyre]

If I remember correctly, there was a disclaimer on the Military icon set about them being 'under development' and to be 'used at your own risk'.

There may be a way to fix them....if I find one, I'll post it here.

[RockinHarry]

Originally posted by Boz:
Simply change the X hexes to clear terrain, and you should be fine.

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Unfortunately that´s only half true. By deleting the unwanted building hexes with clear terrain, not all terrain stats will be set to clear. Simply check LOS through these cleared hexes and you´ll notice that LOS is still blocked!
That´s cause the S8 Byte 8 is not cleared by the "clear" terrain mouse click.

This S8 byte 8 more or less is also responsible for LOS calculations, so it´s still set to "stone building". Can just be cleared in Freds Map Editor.

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Harry