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[Digger]

Make it the same as the usual smoothed wall -> less stuff for the game to track -> faster game -> more happy dwarves    

[ February 26, 2008: Message edited by: Digger ]

Actually the same could be applied to the constructed floors and ramps

[ February 26, 2008: Message edited by: Digger ]

[Captain Mayday]

it isn't the same, though.

[baby_peacock]

I'm sure the suggestion has come up before, but it's still a good one.

It frustrates me to no end that I can't engrave constructed walls and
floors.

When I engrave walls, I always do it to an entire room to get a uniform
appearance. But it often happens that when I dig out a room, there is
valuable ore, gems or just a fleck of odd-colored mineral along the
walls, in which case I want to mine it and then reconstruct the wall
using the same rock that the rest of the room is made of. But then I
can't engrave it, so I'm stuck with either having that part of the room
in a different color, or without engravings!

[Jamini]

To baby-peacock: Constructed walls CAN be "engraved" if they are built on a previously engraved surface. If you don't mind having a slightly larger-than-average room and waiting for the floor to be both smoothed and engraved than it's perfectly possible to have completely uniform rooms as long as you build on a non-constructed rock surface.

To Digger: I doubt that changing constructed walls would affect FPS much in the long run. Besides, tearing down constructions is a totally different action than building (one that both children and nobles will take part in, I might add). The biggest drain on game speed is probably path finding and flows, followed by excessive amounts of unused stone and items.

[Draco18s]

quote:Originally posted by Jamini:
<STRONG>To baby-peacock: Constructed walls CAN be "engraved" if they are built on a previously engraved surface.</STRONG>

Problem could still arrise if you have one tile of [sand or soil] in the room.  Even as a floor, you can't engrave it.

[Jamini]

quote:Originally posted by Draco18s:
<STRONG>

Problem could still arrise if you have one tile of [sand or soil] in the room.  Even as a floor, you can't engrave it.</STRONG>

quote: Originally posted by Jamini:
<STRONG>
it's perfectly possible to have completely uniform rooms as long as you build on a non-constructed rock surface.
</STRONG>

I believe that was implied in my statement.

[penguinofhonor]

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[baby_peacock]

quote:Originally posted by penguinofhonor:
<STRONG>Show me how to engrave this:
http://www.landscapedesignbymjm.com/River_cobble_wall.jpg</STRONG>

Seriously, that has got to be the most unengravable wall you could possibly have dug up. I always pictured the dwarven-made rock walls to be more along these lines:

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2151576/2/istockphoto_2151576_hieroglyphics_in_the_wall_of_karnak_temple.jpg

[baby_peacock]

quote:Originally posted by Jamini:
<STRONG>To baby-peacock: Constructed walls CAN be "engraved" if they are built on a previously engraved surface. If you don't mind having a slightly larger-than-average room and waiting for the floor to be both smoothed and engraved than it's perfectly possible to have completely uniform rooms as long as you build on a non-constructed rock surface.
</STRONG>

Thanks for the tip, I did not know that! However, this seems more like a (somewhat buggy) temporary workaround than a permanent solution to me. I would much rather be able to engrave the constructed walls.