(TFT) MapperEncounter program

["joel sira" <jodasi@hotmail.com>]

Hi. I was inspired by freemapper to do an encouter/dungeon/adventure mapping 
program.

Currently you'll see a hex sheet. You can make the hexes bigger and smaller 
by (strangely enough) clicking bigger and smaller. You can also stretch the 
main window to give you a bigger field of hexes. You can fill in the hex 
colors by clicking on a terrain type and you will get those colored hexes. 
You can map out a dungeon with black and white hexes, and throw the colors 
in there to indicate levels of dungeon. You can also fill in large areas of 
hexes in a single color. Currently you can fill in up to 500 hexes.

You can print but, you have to fudge it alittle. You have to click on the 
title bar and hit print screen. this will give you an image that you can 
paste in MS Paint. I will be adding in the print feature as soon as I figure 
out how to :) Ive written this in VB 6.0 and I am using the Winapi calls to 
do the filled polygons. My next step is to put in more robust terrain 
features: markers for cities, villages, ruins. I also intend on keeping tabs 
on population in cities, generate random stores in cities, and trade values.

I want to build it up to some sort of war game. We'll have to see how it 
goes. On a smaller scale, Ive put the winsock(thats internet multi player 
capability) into 2 different other programs Ive done. I can do it easily 
here too. I did it for a champions combat program, and a collectible card 
game multi player.

oh! by the way. I already used it for myself this weekend. I built a dungeon 
for my wife to play. She bought  a house from a bard, who bought it from a 
dwarven miner prevously. Under her house, she found a secret dungeon that 
the dwarf had been doing his mining in. Admittednly i had to do some cut and 
paste with MS paint and lots of scotchtaping. But, it was fun :)


I need 2 volunteers:
I need some one to volunteer to do the encounter tables for cities, 
wilderness, and dungeon First. any one want to volunteer?


The other guy, or gal, if you know VB,winapi, or MSVC programming, I need to 
know how to pass the painted device context to something in MSVC to print 
thru the program instead of cutting and pasting thru MS paint


The first-look-see-try-out version is here:

 http://www.egroups.com/docvault/tft-encounters/MapperEnc1.zip

any interest in a web page to help make up TFT characters?
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