I have created a custom mod for a custom game. The “board” consists of many face-down cards. When a player moves, they are to flip the card to reveal the location as they explore.
However, despite having “any player” selected in the Mask trait, only the person who deals the board-cards from the starting deck is allowed to flip it. This is very janky, and basically whoever sets up the game has to flip the cards for each player on their turn.
What setting have I neglected to turn this behaviour off?
Hi,
You have misunderstood the meaning of the ‘Any Player’ option in the Mask trait. That is who can mask the piece, not who can unmask it. The difference between Any Player and Any Side is with ‘Any Player’, only the player who masked (i.e. dealt) the piece can ever unmask it. With the ‘Any Side’ option, then if the player who dealt the piece leaves the game and a new player comes in and takes the same side as the masker, then they can unmask the piece.
You do not want to be using a Mask trait at all. The only function of a Mask trait is stop other players from viewing a masked card, whereas you want everyone to access the cards. You want to be using a Layer trait instead that allows all players access to the card.
Wouldn’t it be easy enough to make a copy of the Obscurable class, or extend
it to modify the behavior ( might need a unique trait name to distinguish
its behavior of course)?
Hi,
You have misunderstood the meaning of the ‘Any Player’ option in the
Mask trait. That is who can mask the piece, not who can unmask it. The
difference between Any Player and Any Side is with ‘Any Player’, only
the player who masked (i.e. dealt) the piece can ever unmask it. With
the ‘Any Side’ option, then if the player who dealt the piece leaves the
game and a new player comes in and takes the same side as the masker,
then they can unmask the piece.
You do not want to be using a Mask trait at all. The only function of a
Mask trait is stop other players from viewing a masked card, whereas you
want everyone to access the cards. You want to be using a Layer trait
instead that allows all players access to the card.