Post by witzo on Aug 7, 2014 17:36:49 GMT
As featured in Commodore Free #80 and Reset #3
Hexmapper is a tool for making mosaics with hexagons as units.
It can be used to make tools for role-playing country maps, mosaics for the sake of mosaics, pictures inspired by the often used hexagon art in SF comics and board game layouts.
Screenshotting them from VICE helps a lot for using the pictures outside a C128.
Hexmapper.d64 in a zip-file.
Instructions
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DLOAD"HEXMAPPER"
RUN
At the start screen, press a key to start the hexmap editor.
In the editor, press F6 for an overview of the keys.
From each hexagon, there are six possible cursor directions, mapped to theses keys:
Q W E
\|/
/|\
A S D
Pressing one of these will show the cursor, '='.
At the right of the screen there is a column showing the order of the colours in the C128.
Press U or I to cycle through the 'base' or background colour and watch the 'B' move through the list over the set colour. Make this the colour for the most common hex you want to paint.
Press F3 (clear hexes) and press Y to change the colour of all the hexes to the base colour you have just chosen.
Press J or K to choose the 'line' colour ('L') for the outline of hexes that have the background colour. Choose this as your preferred base grid indicating colour.
Press N or M to choose the colour for the screen edge ('E' in the colour column).
Move the cursor to where you want to change a hex.
Press Cursur Up or Cursor Down to change the colour of that hex. The colours change according to the order shown in the colour column at right.
Press F1 to change to to Edit mode ('E' in the top right corner). Any key can now be entered as the hex's symbol, also in combination with the Shift and Commodore keys to use the C128's graphic symbols.
Press F1 again to change back to Move mode ('M' in the top right corner). Now the keys function to move the cursor and change the screen colours again.
Press C or CTRL-C to copy the current hex. Press V or CTRL-V to paste it in a new location.
The C128 can show only one foreground colour in one character position in hires text mode. This makes hexes with differing non-background colours clash. So surround those hexes in the diagonal positions with hexes of the same colour, or of the base colour. Or use the artifacts creatively.
Some clash gets stuck while editing. Use F5 to redraw the screen and clean this up.
To save your work, press F2, enter a file name, press Return and Y. It's saved as a sequential file, each line a hex's colour and symbol. The first line contains the three screen colours.
To load, use F4, enter a file name, press Return and Y.
Before a screenshot in VICE, I generally wiggle the colour of the current hex up and down with the cursor keys to hide the cursor.
Exit the program by pressing F7.
Hexmapper is a tool for making mosaics with hexagons as units.
It can be used to make tools for role-playing country maps, mosaics for the sake of mosaics, pictures inspired by the often used hexagon art in SF comics and board game layouts.
Screenshotting them from VICE helps a lot for using the pictures outside a C128.
Hexmapper.d64 in a zip-file.
Instructions
------------
DLOAD"HEXMAPPER"
RUN
At the start screen, press a key to start the hexmap editor.
In the editor, press F6 for an overview of the keys.
From each hexagon, there are six possible cursor directions, mapped to theses keys:
Q W E
\|/
/|\
A S D
Pressing one of these will show the cursor, '='.
At the right of the screen there is a column showing the order of the colours in the C128.
Press U or I to cycle through the 'base' or background colour and watch the 'B' move through the list over the set colour. Make this the colour for the most common hex you want to paint.
Press F3 (clear hexes) and press Y to change the colour of all the hexes to the base colour you have just chosen.
Press J or K to choose the 'line' colour ('L') for the outline of hexes that have the background colour. Choose this as your preferred base grid indicating colour.
Press N or M to choose the colour for the screen edge ('E' in the colour column).
Move the cursor to where you want to change a hex.
Press Cursur Up or Cursor Down to change the colour of that hex. The colours change according to the order shown in the colour column at right.
Press F1 to change to to Edit mode ('E' in the top right corner). Any key can now be entered as the hex's symbol, also in combination with the Shift and Commodore keys to use the C128's graphic symbols.
Press F1 again to change back to Move mode ('M' in the top right corner). Now the keys function to move the cursor and change the screen colours again.
Press C or CTRL-C to copy the current hex. Press V or CTRL-V to paste it in a new location.
The C128 can show only one foreground colour in one character position in hires text mode. This makes hexes with differing non-background colours clash. So surround those hexes in the diagonal positions with hexes of the same colour, or of the base colour. Or use the artifacts creatively.
Some clash gets stuck while editing. Use F5 to redraw the screen and clean this up.
To save your work, press F2, enter a file name, press Return and Y. It's saved as a sequential file, each line a hex's colour and symbol. The first line contains the three screen colours.
To load, use F4, enter a file name, press Return and Y.
Before a screenshot in VICE, I generally wiggle the colour of the current hex up and down with the cursor keys to hide the cursor.
Exit the program by pressing F7.