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Author Topic: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort  (Read 27909 times)

soundandfury

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Re: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort
« Reply #30 on: September 21, 2010, 01:34:33 am »

*sigh* I suppose that means people will want another export format from DF Designer, then. ;)
Would there be any interest in that?  Are any of you DFDesigner users?
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Re: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort
« Reply #31 on: September 23, 2010, 02:34:14 am »

*raises hand* Yeah, me. :) I'd like to use DFArchitect, but I've done most of my design work with DFD. I R n00b, though, so don't do it just for me. :)
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Re: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort
« Reply #32 on: November 17, 2010, 05:48:13 pm »


I am having a problem with it however.  Whenever I Designate it sometimes starts from my index location and it sometimes starts from one square below (down from) my index location.  Sure makes lining things up difficult.  I am wondering if I am doing something wrong...Is there a special order I need do do things in other than the obvious?  Some God of aligned staircases I should be praying to?

Im also getting the same problem.. can be very anoying as im trying to designate a large area repetedly.

Otherwise its been great so far thanks for all the hard work Tiny_Puppy_Smasher

:D :D :D

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Re: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort
« Reply #33 on: November 17, 2010, 10:24:08 pm »

Im retarded and am totally curious as to how one makes bitmaps like that with photoshop (GIMP in my case) or any other utility....anyone got a link to a newb tutorial or something?
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Re: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort
« Reply #34 on: December 03, 2010, 04:27:25 pm »

Huh, is this project abandoned?

If it is, good news everyone! I implemented my own clone before bothering to search the forums: it has even faster designations (50 seconds vs 6 minutes per layer on my test pattern) and supports multiple layers.

See here: http://df.zweistein.cz/pub/designator_1_5.zip

Put relevant bluerints to same directory as designator, run designator.cmd, alt-tab to dwarf fortress, see magic happen.

Blueprint colors are:

Black - dig
Blue - down stair
Red - up stair
Mangeta - up/down stair
Cyan - channel.

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Re: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort
« Reply #35 on: December 11, 2010, 11:54:03 pm »

I liked how this thing worked, and wanted to see how far you can push it, so I messed around a little in zwei's source code, I hope you don't mind:)

What I did:

- Added support for that index tile, it is quite handy
- Fixed up allignment issues
- Added some support for using the same image accross multiple z-levels, to quickly build a central staircase for example
- Added support for building furniture/walls/fortifications/floors/...
- Added a configuration file where you can add new designation/items/change colors
- Wrote a small manual document

http://wina2.ugent.be/~karel/DF Designator.zip

Edit: cleaned up code
« Last Edit: December 15, 2010, 09:50:47 am by Kali »
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Re: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort
« Reply #36 on: December 13, 2010, 09:58:13 am »

I liked how this thing worked, and wanted to see how far you can push it, so I messed around a little in zwei's source code, I hope you don't mind:)

I don't mind at all (well, i would have coded it differently, but that is not important). Whole point of adding source is to allow others peek at it/modify/improve it. :)

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Re: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort
« Reply #37 on: December 13, 2010, 12:43:59 pm »

I would have coded it differently as well, I just hacked it together and DesignationRobot is quite the mess now. I would love someone to modify/improve it as you so excellently put it.
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Re: DF Architect -- Build your dream fortress with zero effort
« Reply #38 on: December 16, 2010, 06:17:49 pm »

like  the tool
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