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[Earthquake Damage]

And the Dwarf Lord said "Let there be stone," and there was stone.

[Idiom]

Someone, back in the 2D days, made a utility. Magma, River, Chasm, stone wall, gem walls, and ore walls spawning. As well as reveal, and hide built in.
You might as well make this ultimate DF utility.

[ February 07, 2008: Message edited by: Idiom ]

[penguinofhonor]

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[bartavelle]

I can't see how to have this fit with the interface right now until more about it is reversed. I could however create a script that let you:
* read the raw information about a tile
* clone that tile wherever you want

How about that? Then you guys would just have to fill a wiki page with the best "raw tile info" you have ...

[Armok]

That sounds very good! Good idea.

[Earthquake Damage]

That sounds great so long as the interface is user-friendly.

[bartavelle]

As i say, I can't make a user friendly interface until all of the tiles types/materials are reversed, and there are a lot. I was thinking about a command line script ...

[Earthquake Damage]

Well, it's still leaps and bounds beyond what we have now.

[Armok]

Maybe it could work like Whetherdwarf? As in you select an area that way and it fills whit those tiles. Reading could jut be a button that places the data at the selector in memory. the data itself shuld probably be a string por easy copy-paste.

This IS a suggestion only, even if my tune went wrong so it sounds like an order.  :roll:

[bartavelle]

you might wanna try the test build at this place, go with the command line into the "scripts" subdirectory.

Then set yourself to designation or look (k) mode, target the tile you wanna clone and run the utility once:

code:

designator.py
version v0.27.169.88a, pid 3432, player a6
145/141/0 -> 150 69800 0

This is x/y/z and val1 val2 val3. Then find the coordinates of the box you wanna clone the tiles in by running this again. Finally:

code:

  
designator.py x1 y1 z1 x2 y2 z2 val1 val2 val3
ie.
designator.py 144 141 0 145 142 0 db 69800 0

be sure that x1<=x2 y1<=y2 and z1<=z2. I'll write a wiki page with the interesting tiles to clones.

[Noctis]

Oi! I really like your work, Bartavelle, but the thing is it wont run anymore for me after I updated to .38a. I've tried all the versions, 0.7, 0.8 both the "-any" and the 2.5 only(I've got both the 2.4 and 2.5 python installed with all the extra gadgets, but that can't be the cause since the .33g ran fine under the same configuration). It seems to be related to the update, my guess is that something is wrong with the custom race/language support since I've got them modified. Might wanna check what the companion does when the language has missing words, since I'm using a outdated latin language file from the Dwarvus Romanus: Rome Fortress mod. Gotta say, although missing words can be annoying, even though rare, a nameless god is quite a idea.

- Noctis

[bartavelle]

Can you run it from the command line and copy/paste the whole error message?

[Mover#005]

it seems not to work under linux, at least not with 64 bit kernel/python

[bartavelle]

It will quite likely not work under 64 bit linux, and the linux support is very lacking : ptrace is very slow (4 bytes at a time for memory copies) and I messed up sometimes with the sequence of attach/detach, crashing the game.

[penguinofhonor]

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