HINTS

   Please report all bugs to me, E-mail S.Emerson@GEnie.GEIS.COM. If you
report a bug, I will ship you a fixed update as soon as possible with your
bug fixed.

   To understand the way the map works, think of it as two layers. Layer 1
is the bottom layer or underlay, and shouldn't have any color zero in it.
Layer 2 is laid over layer 1, and should have some color zero in it
somewhere if layer 1 is to be seen through layer 2. This allows you to lay
features such as cities, rivers, and coastlines over standard terrain
types. Layer 2 images are limited to image numbers 1 to 125. Layer 1 images
are numbered from 126 to 400. Results may be less than desirable if color
zero is used in layer 1 or not used in layer 2. Since only one image may be
assigned to each layer in a hex, some forward planning might be in order to
best optimize your image resources. For instance, would it be better to
place your city images in layer 1 or layer 2? If in layer 2, will any
unique hex images be required if a city is adjacent to a river? 

   When initially laying out your map, you may find it necessary to blank
out the left-most hex on all the odd rows so that your map edge will match
the game you are modelling. One of the games I used to proof much of this
code by installing was World in Flames, which uses off-map area movement
out of the play area, and so the actual hexagon play area started two or
three hexes from the game processor edge to give room to draw these areas. 

   Rivers come in two flavors: hex edge and hex-to-hex. Some sample
hex-to-hex images have been provided in the default image library, and
should cover most requirements. These should be placed in layer one, but
may be edited to work in layer two by making everything but the river part
of the image color zero. For rivers, roads, coastlines and other terrain
features that extend from hex to hex, the hex editor has highlighted the
center pixel on each edge in red to make it easy to line up features from
hex to hex.

   Be sure when designing terrain to avoid horizontal lines of only one
pixel, or lines with odd numbers of pixels in the horizontal. Also avoid
dramatic color contrasts. This will help minimize screen flicker on non-ECS
machines which can be quite distracting.

   Hex edge rivers provide all the standard combinations of rivers possible
in a hex.  The way I worked these to use as few image slots as possible was
to only draw rivers along the upper and left hex edges. If you need a river
along a different edge, just draw it in the next hex in that direction.
Sometimes a hex may have more than one hex edge symbol, for instance there
are several hexes in Third Reich which have border, river, and front
boundaries. These must be dealt with individually.

   You may have to add to these images if additional hex-edge symbology is
required, such as borders, weather areas, etc. For best results, limit
hex-edge symbology to the left and top sides of a hex. Right side or bottom
edge symbols can then be done with the same symbols by using the left side
or top of adjacent hexes. If you have to draw borders along the hex edges,
for example, you may want to copy each of the river images in the terrain
editor and change the color to black, or whatever color you want your
border to be. Unique images may have to be created as needed if, say a
border and a river share the same hex edge. Hex edge rivers are also useful
to delineate sea areas against borderless light blue seas. 

   Images will initially be placed in layer one. Images may be placed in
layer two by pressing the "Place Underlay" button. When this button is
pressed, the image will automatically be changed to the first default
hex-edge river image. To return to layer one, simply press this button
until "Place Underlay appears again. If you wish to remove an overlay
image, press this button until "Erase Overlay" appears.

   It's easy to lose track of what you've done on a large map, and
duplicate terrain features.  If you find that you've done this, you might
want to eliminate the duplication, but you want to be sure you get all the
hexes that are affected by the duplication updated. I found that if you use
the terrain editor "Reverse F/B" function to change a prominent color to,
say red, it makes it real easy to spot all occurrences of the hex in
question. 

   The default coordinate system names the hexes after their X and Y
coordinates. If you are playing with an opponent who doesn't have the Game
processor, or you want 100% accuracy, you may want to rename the
coordinates based on whatever system the game actually uses. The "Do
Coordinates" button will allow you to select a coordinate system for your
game. If you don't see the system you need, E-mail me.