Comments by ChessShogi

Looks like everything works properly.

Can you send me the updated files for Seireigi and Chu Seireigi (I have already taken care of Hectochess)?

Thanks.

Thanks.

Can you also do the same for normal Seireigi? It has the same problem with its 3d Kanji pieces.

Looks like it. I have uploaded the new version to the site and have adapted them so the implementation will work properly with the CVP files.

I notice that Lev nominated Seireigi, so in addition to my nomination of its larger cousin (Dai Seireigi) I'll throw in a second for Seireigi for future features.

You must really like Dai Seireigi...I'm honestly quite surprised. Sure, I consider the Seireigi family my best set of works so far, but I didn't think anyone would be so quick to nominate Dai Seireigi. If anything, I thought Chu Seireigi would be nominated faster (second to normal Seireigi of course). That being said, I can definitely see the appeal, with the homages to the large historical Shogi variants and all.

Note to (other) Editors: While Dai Seireigi hasn't been played in its current, final form on Game Courier yet, it does have a recorded history of development versions being played on Game Courier. Whether this would make it eligible to be featured is up for debate.

That's perfect.

You should only have to swap the King kanjis in the 2D Classic Seireigi sprites.

For the 3D pieces its as simple as swapping "sh-king" and "sh-jade" in the 3D piece definitions in the *-view.js files, so no problem there.

P.S. What I said above also applies to the Shogi Jocly implementations that use the King kanji on the biscandine site.

P.S.S. Also you have two extra rooks in your laser cutter SVG.

It not clear to me, when there's an apostrophe, it's the general of jade that corresponds to the blacks, right?

In kanji sets, the player that moves first always has the King with the extra stroke. And it is true that the player who moves first is called Black (or Sente) in Shogi. It's just that in Jocly and the Mnemonic sets by H. G. Muller, the player that moves first has the white piece images by convention to make it easier for chess players.

I'll send you an updated pictogram spritesheet that you can use. Currently, the pictogram images still have the Kanji for the Kings since they are pulling from those locations.

Here is my updated version of your spritesheet. (For best results, clear browser cache before downloading)

I also took the opportunity to clean up stray pixels in your other shogi spritesheets.

www.chessvariants.com/membergraphics/MSchuseireigi/jocly-shogi-sprites.zip?nocache=true

I also updated the seireigi-sprites file one more time so that the promoted Kanjis are all facing the right way.

www.chessvariants.com/play/jocly/dist/browser/games/chessbase/res/shogi/seireigi-shogi-sprites.png

P. S. GIMP is awesome.

I have done it but not sure it is a good idea because if you use "view as player B". It won’t be correctly oriented.

Well, that problem was kind of already baked in to begin with, unless you used a separate piece style like you do with the Shogi Motif pieces on the biscandine site.

The point is to make sure all the 2D Kanji are oriented correctly on the biscandine site. Anyone who has played Shogi long enough would immediately notice something was wrong with the second player's promoted minor pieces if they used the 2D Classic set for Seireigi.

Thanks. It looks much better.

I made one last change to Chu Seireigi, making the Lion move like its Cazaux form (a Chu Shogi Lion that lacks multi-move capabilities). If you could implement that on the biscandine site that would be great.

I'll even make it real simple for you on what you need to do. You'll need to go into your http://chu-seireigi-model.js and look for the Lion definitions (searching for "sh-lion should do"), which looks like this:

				66: {
					name: 'lion-w',
					aspect: 'sh-lion',
					graph: this.cbDropGraph(geometry, [[-2,0],[-2,-1],[-2,-2],[-1,-2],[0,-2],[1,-2],[2,-2],[2,-1],[2,0],[2,1],[2,2],[1,2],[0,2],[-1,2],[-2,2],[-2,1]],[[1,1],[1,-1],[-1,1],[-1,-1]]),
					value: 10,
					abbrev: 'LN',
					fenAbbrev: 'N',
					initial: [{s:1,p:55}],
					demoted: 67,
					hand: 18,
				},
				67: {
					name: 'lion-b',
					aspect: 'sh-lion',
					graph: this.cbDropGraph(geometry, [[-2,0],[-2,-1],[-2,-2],[-1,-2],[0,-2],[1,-2],[2,-2],[2,-1],[2,0],[2,1],[2,2],[1,2],[0,2],[-1,2],[-2,2],[-2,1]],[[1,1],[1,-1],[-1,1],[-1,-1]]),
					value: 10,
					abbrev: 'LN',
					initial: [{s:-1,p:168}],
					demoted: 66,
					hand: 18,
				},

Set the Lions values to 11 and replace the current graph definitions with the following:

					graph: this.cbDropGraph(geometry, [[-2,0],[-2,-1],[-2,-2],[-1,-2],[0,-2],[1,-2],[2,-2],[2,-1],[2,0],[2,1],[2,2],[1,2],[0,2],[-1,2],[-2,2],[-2,1],[1,1],[1,-1],[-1,1],[-1,-1],[1,0],[-1,0],[0,1],[0,-1]],[]),

Once that is done, the biscandine Jocly preset should play at least somewhat reasonably.

Thanks. I know you may be a little frustrated, and I apologize if you are, but it is an unfortunate truth of development for my more complex games that updating them can be quite laborious and tedious, especially when several options exist for playing them. As a general rule, I want my games to be well-thought out and high in quality, so I am willing to make changes like this to try and make my games better.

Check your rabbit in daiseireigi. they are promoted by default in stag.

Can you elaborate further on this, please? I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.

I did check the Running Rabbit in the diagram and the text, and everything seems to be in proper working order, including the text that shows the legal moves of the piece when clicked.