Better Chess

This mods tries to fix the chess board located in the airport. You will not need to move your pieces a few units to the side to perfectly align them on the grid, BetterChess will do that for you!

Features

• Chess piece alignment to the chessboard grid
• Only allow snapping within the chessboard (with some offset)

Yet to be implemented

• Reset chess position button
• Reset to custom positions
• Better way to handle chess piece movement (external board, etc.)
• Movement of the chessboard

Configuration

Configuration file will be automatically generated after launching the game with mod installed. After its created, it can be found in $PEAK_FOLDER/BepInEx/config/com.github.Kirshoo.BetterChess.cfg.

Installation

Manual

1. Download .zip file
2. Extract .dll from plugins folder into $PEAK_FOLDER/BepInEx/plugins folder
3. Host a game and enjoy better chess!

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Added

• Scaling to board pieces and snapping grid

[0.6.0]

Added

• Board grid snapping adjusts with rotation
• Pieces face each other once again
• Debug visualisation of snap positions and snap area

Changed

• Registered pieces tracked, fixing a bug where Pieces would move faster than the board when using MovableChessboard

[0.5.0]

Added

• Soft-Dependency compitability with MovableChessboard mod

[0.4.1]

Changed

• Checks to fallback to default FEN, since it would run whenever a valid value was provided instead of the oposite

[0.4.0]

Added

• Reset for the board state to its default with a click of a button
• Dynamic loading of the chessboard to avoid desync in case chessboard moves

[0.3.0]

Added

• Configuration for snapping area and snapping speed

Changed

• Snap timing, which should stop pieces to be frozen in mid air
• Limited snapping to area near the chessboard

[0.2.1]

Added

• Installation section to README
• Short description to thunderstore page

[0.2.0]

Added

• Ignore collisions when snapping

Changed

• Piece freeze window to improve all-client sync

[0.1.0] Initial testing

Added

• Chess piece snapping