Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: Add arches  (Read 895 times)

Hardrada

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Add arches
« on: April 03, 2012, 03:36:47 am »
Basically I would like to see the addition of an equivalent to ramps that would allow smoother z-level transitions for roofs and cavern ceilings.  I want to carve a great vaulted ceiling for my grand entrance hall, but at the moment it will by necessity have to be stepped, which is just not the same for me.  Similarly if I am expanding a tower outwards or building a walkway along a wall I would like to be able to build arches next to the wall to smooth out the transition from empty air to something I can walk on.  In practical terms they might function identically to constructed floors (at least until we have spiders walking on the ceilings) but it would make a difference to me.

I am not sure if arch is the best term, but I could not come up with anything better.
Logged

peskyninja

  • Bay Watcher
  • Natural de-selector
    • View Profile
Re: Add arches
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2012, 04:30:48 pm »
In the current DF to create an arch it must be very very big otherwise it'll be just an... an.. Pile of random blocks. The solution to this would be making blocks "Smaller".
Logged
Burn the land and boil the sea. You can't take the sky from me

Thou son of a b*tch wilt not ever make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, f**k thy mother.

kaijyuu

  • Bay Watcher
  • Hrm...
    • View Profile
Re: Add arches
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2012, 06:31:07 pm »
I was successfully able to make downward ramps attached to a ceiling by caving in the floor below it.

Dunno if it'll work for constructed ramps, but carving a "true" arch seems possible.
Logged
Quote from: Chesterton
For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

NW_Kohaku

  • Bay Watcher
  • [ETHIC:SCIENCE_FOR_FUN: REQUIRED]
    • View Profile
Re: Add arches
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2012, 06:55:43 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on April 03, 2012, 06:31:07 pm
I was successfully able to make downward ramps attached to a ceiling by caving in the floor below it.

Alternately, it would look like stalactites in a cavern, which is also cool.

Too bad I doubt that any visualizer actually supports that sort of thing, though.
Logged
Quote from: Alkyon on March 30, 2010, 08:00:46 pm
Personally, I like [DF] because after climbing the damned learning cliff, I'm too elitist to consider not liking it.
Quote from: Aslandus on July 27, 2015, 09:46:43 pm
"And no Frankenstein-esque body part stitching?"
"Not yet"
Improved Farming
Class Warfare

knutor

  • Bay Watcher
  • ..to hear the lamentation of the elves!
    • View Profile
Re: Add arches
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2012, 10:21:06 pm »
Sounds like a merlon, not an arch.

edit: merlin -> merlon
« Last Edit: April 03, 2012, 10:33:55 pm by knutor »
Logged
"I don't often drink Mead, but when I do... I prefer Dee Eef's.  -The most interesting Dwarf in the World.  Stay thirsty, my friend.
Shark Dentistry, looking in the Raws.

Waparius

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Add arches
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2012, 01:20:53 am »
What I'd like to see is arches, even in a crude, stepped form, required to avoid cave-ins in large, open areas. Something to do with how much open space there is around a given ceiling-block, rather than the "one pillar per 7x7 square" or whatever it was that was in the old 2D version, so there's actual value in building big vaulted chambers.
Logged