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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darraketh" data-source="post: 374812" data-attributes="member: 847">Major Discovery!!!Making hexes was time consuming. I was under the misguided impression that the hexes had to be hex shaped after all the ones that came with the program were. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Apparently that is not the case. I was playing Railroad Tycoon II and thinking that the trees looked kind of nice and I probably should make some new hexes.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I did a screen capture and cropped a 32x27 section that included the trees. I saved it as a bmp to the hexes directory and added it to the hexlist.txt file. Then I just wanted to see if the program would choke, so I made a map with the new hex. It didn't choke. Now this is going to save some time.The only thing you need to keep in mind is that your subject should be centered. Visualize where the outside of the hex would be and center your subject so that it falls within the hex. Otherwise it may get cropped by the program when it is displayed on a map. Edit: It just occured to me that this crop and go technique will only work for terrain tiles. duh! For the overlays the transparent portion will still need to be magenta but at least it doesn't need to be hex shaped.Go ahead try it!</blockquote>

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