Hide cards from other players in Local/Remote play

[OperatorSkillet]

Is there a way to hide cards from player's during Remote play/Local

[ulia]

It is not realistic to hide objects when you are straight up sharing the same view. The only way to do this would be to ask your players to look away while you're hiding the objects out of view for everyone. Individual hidden hands and zones are standard functionality for normal online play and is what you should be using for games that require it.

[OperatorSkillet]

Originally posted by CHRY:

It is not realistic to hide objects when you are straight up sharing the same view. The only way to do this would be to ask your players to look away while you're hiding the objects out of view for everyone. Individual hidden hands and zones are standard functionality for normal online play and is what you should be using for games that require it.

Thank you very much. Might I make a suggestion then. Make it so player one can only see cards assigned to play one and two to two and three to three and so fourth. That way when you end your turn your cards become hidden and player two's cards are revealed

[Ratt]

Originally posted by youare:

Originally posted by CHRY:

It is not realistic to hide objects when you are straight up sharing the same view. The only way to do this would be to ask your players to look away while you're hiding the objects out of view for everyone. Individual hidden hands and zones are standard functionality for normal online play and is what you should be using for games that require it.

Thank you very much. Might I make a suggestion then. Make it so player one can only see cards assigned to play one and two to two and three to three and so fourth. That way when you end your turn your cards become hidden and player two's cards are revealed

You can do this by putting the cards in hand zones and changing seats at the end of each turn.

[OperatorSkillet]

Originally posted by Ratt:

Originally posted by youare:

Thank you very much. Might I make a suggestion then. Make it so player one can only see cards assigned to play one and two to two and three to three and so fourth. That way when you end your turn your cards become hidden and player two's cards are revealed

You can do this by putting the cards in hand zones and changing seats at the end of each turn.

teach me your ways

[Ratt]

Originally posted by youare:

Originally posted by Ratt:

You can do this by putting the cards in hand zones and changing seats at the end of each turn.

teach me your ways

When you open a game or table, at the top-right corner of the screen, there's a button with your name on it. Clicking that opens a list of options, one of which is "Change Color". When you click "Change Color", several coloured circles appear over the table. Each of these is a seat. Clicking one will put you in that seat.

At the default tables (with no game loaded) and in most games that use hands, each seat has a hand zone in front of it that belongs to it. You can see these hand zones by activating the hand zone tool, which is under the zone button in the tools list (the list at the top-left corner of the screen, the third button from the top, and the third button that extends right from that one when you click it). You can also activate the hand zone tool by pressing F3 three times. After you're sure that the hand zones are there (which they probably will be), switch back to the grab tool (press F1) to continue interacting with your game.

When you right-click a deck of cards, the list of options should include "Deal" and "Draw". Mousing over "Deal" will extend a multicoloured wheel; clicking a colour on that wheel deals the top card of the deck to the hand of that colour. "Draw" deals a card to yourself (the hand of whatever colour seat you're in). Clicking "Deal" directly deals a card to every seated player, but if you're playing by hotseat or remote play, this will effectively be the same as "Draw".

My suggestion was to use hands as I've just described and use "Change Color" at the end of every turn to take advantage of each colour being able to see the cards in its hand zone and no others.

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Of course, if you're trying to prevent cheating and can't trust your players to cooperate, or you want players to be able to watch the game during one another's turns without seeing one another's cards, then as CHRY said, you can't do that and still have everyone share the same view. If that's the case, stop being cheap, have each player get a copy of the game, and play multiplayer.