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Author Topic: Zooming to Specific Z-Layer  (Read 685 times)

Glitchy

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Zooming to Specific Z-Layer
« on: March 08, 2016, 09:15:10 pm »

So my fortress is getting pretty big and one way I navigate through it is using a lever and linking a bridge so I can zoom in from the lever in z-layer 1 to the bridge in z-layer -112 in 3 seconds.

I was wondering if you could have the option to zoom to where you placed the Notes instead.
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Re: Zooming to Specific Z-Layer
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2016, 11:18:22 pm »

Try H for hotkeys which let you zoom to player defined locations using F1 - F8 and Shift F1 - F8.
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Re: Zooming to Specific Z-Layer
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2016, 10:03:25 pm »

It would be helpful to be able to hit a key sequence to change levels such as: Ctrl-G 50 (Go to z-level 50)
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Re: Zooming to Specific Z-Layer
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2016, 12:30:48 am »

It would be helpful to be able to hit a key sequence to change levels such as: Ctrl-G 50 (Go to z-level 50)
You could probably write a macro that takes you up/down a level, then set that to repeat (ctrl-U) X times from level 0 (reached by hotkey.)

You can only have one macro active at a time, so it's not that convenient, really. IDK how long it would take to scroll you there either. Hotkeys are the way to go if you have a specific level you frequent. I mean, who's going to remember the numbers of all their important levels?
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Re: Zooming to Specific Z-Layer
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2016, 10:01:44 am »

Thinking about this issue and how you need to keep updating the hotkeys as you dig down, it made me think that it'd be useful to have a shortcut that takes you to the lowest level you've dug to so far.
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