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Probably I'll publish a beta of the version 2 of the plugin, with many enhancements, but also with some bugs.

I've been poking around trying to learn DFHack for some tile-designation manipulation, and since there's no documentation on the why-

Is there documentation of, or does anyone know the purpose of the crazy coordinate system used for map tiles? At first I figured "block.map_pos" was the proper coordinates but they increment oddly instead of reflecting the real coords.

Digging through other scripts reveals a crazy 2D array in some of the fields such "block.designation", which I can't figure out the purpose or function of. I've managed to get something working by copying what other people have done, but I'd sure love to know what this structure's for.

The tiles are stored in the df.global.world.map structure.
Inside this structure the datais stored in different ways. There's a 3 dimmensional array (x)(y)(z) of map_blocks called block_index and, also, a vector of pointers to map_blocks called map_blocks.

You can access a map_block of coordinates (x)(y)(z) directly using block_index or iterate over the map_blocks_vector to reach the desired coordinate, or better, use DFHack.

Each map_block stores a 16x16 array of tyletypes, that is the data you are looking for.

It's better to explain it with a image

Quote from: lethosor on May 22, 2020, 09:55:29 pm

Regarding enums, if you can navigate in gui/gm-editor to the structure containing the fields you're interested in, editing it will give you a popup containing a list of enum items as well as the enum type name.

Can I do that with tiles? All I get is "No valid target found". I've just been using "printall" in lua to examine the fields, then doing another printall if there's another structure.

Now I've just got to figure out how to get the base material of a tile so I can determine if a construction is built in air. It shows up in probe.cpp as "mc.baseTiletypeAt(cursor)", where "mc" is a MapCache object. The "original_tile" field of a "df.global.world.constructions" entry just gives a soil layer, even in air.

You can also use df::global::world.map.map_blocks vector and interate over each entry looking for the desired [x,y,z] coordinate in the map_pos field and getting the tiletypes values in the tiletype array

this Dwarfexplorer looks very promising. Unfortunately, the v1.2 release's `DwarfExplorer_0.44.07_Win64.zip` doesn't include the `qapplication.plug.dll`, and v1.1's is compiled against dfhack 0.44.12-r3 and wouldn't work with 0.47.03-beta1.

Yes, you are right. I always forgot to include that dependency
I released a new version with the missing dll.

https://github.com/ragundo/DwarfExplorer/releases/tag/v1.2.1

Thanks for the info.

New release!!

• Updated for dfhack 0.47.03-beta1
• Linux build will be updated later

Download:

https://github.com/ragundo/DwarfExplorer/releases/tag/v1.2

You don't need to start a server in lua and interchange data with your application.
Thanks to Clement, it's possible to use Qt directly in DFHack as a C++ plugin.

See https://github.com/cvuchener/dfhack-qt for the framework and
my plugin https://github.com/ragundo/DwarfExplorer as a working Qt dfhack plugin example.

Also, I'm working in something similar, but I started working for the "DF events area" instead of the "sound area".
See https://github.com/ragundo/dwidder.

Anyway, I'd prefer to collaborate in a C++ plugin.

New release!!

• Updated for dfhack 0.44.12-r3
• Added option to zoom the Dwarf Fortress window to coordinates (df::coord) selected in the tree of any structure
• Same for any building (df::building) selected in the tree

Download:
https://github.com/ragundo/DwarfExplorer/releases/tag/v1.1