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Urist Da Vinci

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Camera follows creature/item
« on: April 07, 2012, 10:14:24 pm »
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You can have the camera follow a unit or item, either as a one time thing or as one of the function hotkeys you set up for it. It'll keep following it until you enter another mode, recenter to an announcement, manually scroll, etc. If the followed item is held by a container or by a unit, the camera will center on that.

I wanted to split this from the minecart thread because it has its own potential.

This would be a handy feature for simply observing dwarves go around, monitoring strange mood dwarves, tracking invaders, etc. Potentially, you could even leave a valuable item outside and set the camera on it to get a "Kobold Cam".

It seems that this feature was implemented so that you could watch minecarts fly in parabolic paths through the air.
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Re: Camera follows creature/item
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2012, 10:16:14 pm »
The finer details of pathfinding.  Begin the industrialization of hallways and the close observation of dwarven movement to weed out inefficient moments!
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Re: Camera follows creature/item
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2012, 10:18:37 pm »
I think dfhack already had something like this.
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Re: Camera follows creature/item
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2012, 10:26:20 pm »
It does, but it doesn't follow items.  So this is still fun, and it's vanilla so it'll probably run smoother.
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Re: Camera follows creature/item
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2012, 10:28:39 pm »
This might make embarks on steep terrain a little less aggravating, which I am all in favour of. There's nothing worse than wanting to watch a hunter/military squad do their stuff only to have to keep scrolling up and down a mountain to keep up.
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Re: Camera follows creature/item
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2012, 10:30:54 pm »
Quote from: KodKod on April 07, 2012, 10:28:39 pm
This might make embarks on steep terrain a little less aggravating, which I am all in favour of. There's nothing worse than wanting to watch a hunter/military squad do their stuff only to have to keep scrolling up and down a mountain to keep up.

I'd rather watch my little kobold thieves cut up the children I throw at him.
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Re: Camera follows creature/item
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2012, 12:34:00 pm »
Feels good when a suggestion goes through
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Re: Camera follows creature/item
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2012, 01:33:29 pm »
I've been wanting something like this for a while. If Toady was within appropriate range at the moment, he would be receiving an honorary brofist from a very delighted God-King.
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