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MaDeR Levap

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Designating in 3D
« on: April 03, 2010, 07:28:56 am »
Designating 150-z high 3x1 d-i (up/down staircase) level-by-level is tedious.
Nuff said.
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Rotten

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Re: Designating in 3D
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2010, 09:50:48 am »
Position cursor where you want staircase
Hold down left mouse button
Press > or < (don't let go of mouse)
...
Profit!

It's not quite as fast, but you only need to do it three times for a 3X1 staircase.
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Quote from: Tirin on April 03, 2010, 07:00:08 pm
True, but at a certain velocity the resulting explosion expels invader-bits at fatal speeds. You don't want to be dropping trogdolyte-shaped shrapnel bombs into your boneworks.
Only in Dwarf Fortress...

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Re: Designating in 3D
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2010, 09:54:46 am »
But what about us loyalists who only ever use the keyboard? *shuns mouse*
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Re: Designating in 3D
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2010, 10:30:04 am »
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MaDeR Levap

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Re: Designating in 3D
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2010, 03:09:43 pm »
Quote from: Rotten on April 03, 2010, 09:50:48 am
Position cursor where you want staircase
Hold down left mouse button
Press > or < (don't let go of mouse)
Eh? I did not know you can do that. Still this is not same as true 3d designations.

Quote from: Footkerchief on April 03, 2010, 10:30:04 am
Multi-z-level designations are a common suggestion:
More posts (no spamming of course!) with demands of same thing, higher chance that Toady at last do something about it.
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Re: Designating in 3D
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2010, 03:14:05 pm »
Quote from: MaDeR Levap on April 03, 2010, 03:09:43 pm
More posts (no spamming of course!) with demands of same thing, higher chance that Toady at last do something about it.

Nope.  If you want to convince Toady that something's popular, vote for it on Eternal Suggestion Voting (linked above).  Posting redundant threads in Suggestions is just a waste of time for all involved.  Also, didn't you see this at the top of the forum?

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Re: Designating in 3D
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2010, 03:34:14 pm »
I've been getting around this by using AutoHotkey to make a keyboard shortcut for a 10 z-level 4x4 staircase. It's pretty easy to make your own scripts and is way way faster then doing the designations by hand.
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MaDeR Levap

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Re: Designating in 3D
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2010, 06:19:49 pm »
Quote from: Footkerchief on April 03, 2010, 03:14:05 pm
Nope.  If you want to convince Toady that something's popular, vote for it on Eternal Suggestion Voting (linked above).  Posting redundant threads in Suggestions is just a waste of time for all involved.  Also, didn't you see this at the top of the forum?
I am sorry for that.
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