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TerminatorII

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Insta Smooth
« on: April 07, 2007, 10:08:00 pm »
I was playing a fortress recently where I decided to make all my rooms circular. I noticed an odd bug.

XXXXXXXXXX
XXX....XXX
XX......XX
X........X
D........D
D........D
X........X
XX......XX
XXX....XXX
XXX=DD=XXX
...D..D...
...D..D...

Where:

=   Smoth walls
X   Rough walls
.   Rough floor
D   Door


as soon as I would put the doors in, the sqares that two were toutching would instantly turn smooth.

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Mechanoid

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Re: Insta Smooth
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2007, 10:15:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by TerminatorII:
code:
XXXXXXXXXX
XXX....XXX
XX......XX
X........X
D........D
D........D
X........X
XX......XX
XXX....XXX
XXX=DD=XXX
...D..D...
...D..D...

Code tags for a fixed image.

Auto-smoothing walls when doors are placed has happened for a long time, and TBH i think it's supposed to happen.

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Re: Insta Smooth
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2007, 10:31:00 pm »
I'm pretty sure why it happens is when you smooth rooms set in a grid, there would be a single tile that is black in the center of the grid for the room... every + of wall would have a black spot, and in a grid that looks really wierd.
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Re: Insta Smooth
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2007, 02:08:00 pm »
and also corners. you'r smoothed room would look awfully patchy if corners were not automatically smoothed for you.
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Jifodus

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Re: Insta Smooth
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2007, 02:19:00 pm »
Corner smoothing is actually exploitable to save time.
code:
.............................
.============================
.=WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
.=

= is a smoothed wall
W is rock behind the smoothed wall
. is a corridor

If you were to mine that top row, left to right, so you reveal W, all the W's revealed will be automatically smoothed by the miners (for no extra experience though).

I've only managed to get it to work with the above specifications, I still have yet to get it to work with the other three cardinal directions.

[ April 10, 2007: Message edited by: Jifodus ]

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Re: Insta Smooth
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2007, 02:33:00 pm »
heck, i'd rather spend the time smoothing to get more legendary engravers.  

in fact, i often make my dwarfs smooth out my strip-mines to build up their skill before letting them do any double-detailing.

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Re: Insta Smooth
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2007, 01:58:00 am »
I do wish the insta smooth happened when you detail walls.  I hate having a room full of detailed walls with the corners all patchy =
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