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[tastypaste]

Weird bug. I'll look into it. Could you post one of your build blueprints that is hanging near the end? (Post to the drop.io site linked in the first post)

I uploaded a 7zip pack of the build blueprints that are hanging. They're titled Fractal bedrooms build furniture.7z They're meant to work with the fractal room dig csv that was already uploaded. They install furniture in a modular fashion. So the first 16 beds are installed, then the first 16 doors, then 16 tables, chairs and cabinets. Followed by 40 of each for the perimeter. The more furniture that's installed at once the sooner it goes wonky and starts trying to build furniture in solid rock on different levels and several shift spaces away from the building location.

This also happens with building walls and other objects. I now have many randomly scattered granite pillars all over the forest after trying to build a wall around my entrance. I couldn't find them all to cancel the builds so I just let the dwarfs build them.

I also used Open Office to make the csv's. I don't know if that program added some strange formatting which interferes with Quick Fort. I'll test it out with other spreadsheet programs and see if it changes anything.

[Draco18s]

Is there any easy way to rotate a design in Quickfort? Working on fractal layouts and it would be immensely easier if I could rotate a group of cells 90 degrees.

There's a nice Excel plugin out there--forgotten the name offhand--that I went and got to do some editing of quickfort designs.  I'll dig it up when I get home.

[tastypaste]

I've done one new test with a file made from scratch in Google docs and it worked perfectly. Open Office might have been the problem. I can't do anymore testing for a while as my fortress doesn't need anymore areas dug or furniture installed at the moment. I'll try more tests on future forts and see if I can conclusively confirm Open Office as the culprit.

[random51]

I just started using it for exploratory mining and it has worked great.  It allows me to use more efficient mining patterns than I have been.  Laying out diagonal drifts by hand wasn't worth the effort previously, now it is no effort at all. Spent about 15 minutes creating a base CSV for one map unit and then just cut and paste to build bigger templates.

[Sutremaine]

As soon as I open Quickfort.exe I get the following message:

"The keyboard and/or mouse hook could not be activated; some parts of the script will not function."

Nothing seems to be working at all. None of the hotkeys given with the tooltip function even if I switch to an English keyboard before opening the program.

I'm using QF1.08 and DF40d16.

[Alex Steiner]

I'm having trouble with it as well.

At first it wouldn't do z-levels, but I tweaked the delay, and now it works. Now it occasionally randomly shoots sideways when starting or ending a line, and so I end up with designations everywhere. It does it every 10 or so lines. The percentage of completion is also far ahead of the actual designations, and the cursor continues with the design after it has apparently finished. This also means that when I attempt to cancel a bad design, it must continue to the point it was meant to be at when I pushed Alt-c (even if I close QF). The designations also get out of sync with the enter key, meaning that it designates from the end of the line to the start of the next one.

I was testing it with the first part of Buketgeshud, surface 1 digging.

I have tried disabling the optimizations, and playing with the delay, the only thing I haven't touched is the keypress (-1 default) because I don't know where to shift it (to 0, to -2 or to 1). The errors are different each time (even under the same conditions).

I also can't seem to remove the tooltip flickering.

I'm using Windows XP, fully updated SP3
DF 0.28.181.40d16, with a basic tileset,
QF 1.08

Other than that, this is awesome.

[random51]

Lol, check the original post for the sharing link before making a .csv for something you've seen elsewhere, it could already be posted.

I was going to upload some .csv files I made to match stuff on the wiki but somebody already has!

[Heliman]

By cthulu, you must be an old god this is so useful!

[Shade-o]

This will make my needlessly convoluted and detailed designs so much easier!

[G-Flex]

In case anyone is wondering, I was commissioned by Djohaal on IRC (for the lump sum of nothing) to create a program that converts bitmaps to CSV textfiles for use with Quickfort (although it currently just puts in the hex color values, but search-and-replace is easy enough).

... Well, okay, I offered to, but the point is that I did it!

It's just a simple, stupid command-line thing at the moment. I don't know what the hell I'm doing when it comes to GUIs, although I should probably learn.

So if you like mapping things like this out in paint programs instead of Excel or whatever:
DFFD link
Mediafire download link, in case the above isn't working for some reason

[CobaltKobold]

(use DFFD)

[G-Flex]

Good point. It is done.

[random51]

Good point. It is done.

Could be another use for it, if you think about it.  Couldn't somebody take a screenshot of something already made in DF and then use your program to extract a .csv in case they ever wanted to do it again?

Might need a modded tileset to make it work best, but that wouldn't be hard to make.

[G-Flex]

In theory, yes... if you don't mind using a 1x1 tileset to take the screenshot.

Remember the program's making a CSV grid of pixels, not tiles.

[random51]

In theory, yes... if you don't mind using a 1x1 tileset to take the screenshot.

Remember the program's making a CSV grid of pixels, not tiles.

That would work... after lots of raw modding so that all items of a certain type were the same RGB value regardless of what they were made of.  Imagine trying to play the game with it configured that way, it'd be even more matrix-y then playing in ascii.