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[peterix]

I noticed the occupancy structure has three bits reserved for "building" and that you'd noted it should be an enumeration.  The current version of my plugin just checks to see if that field is non-zero, but it would be nice to know what each of those values actually means.  Is more research required to find the meaning of each value, or has it just not come up yet?

I probably messed with it, wrote down some notes and then got distracted by something random... all I have is a guess: it's for pathfinding and collision detection. For example a retracting bridge could either act as 'empty space', in which case the normal map tile geometry is used, or 'floor', overriding the default. Same applies to workshops having floor/wall/empty tiles - you can cover the magma with the floor or wall tiles of a magma furnace.

A good test for this would be to set the bits on some empty space tiles and see if you can get dwarves to walk on invisible bridges

[rampaging-poet]

I built a quick plugin to fiddle with the building bits.  I didn't have a retracting bridge or pit to test with, but I tried a number of other things.  These are the values I found:

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000: No building whatsoever. Used for normal floors, walls, empty space, and constructions.
001: Not found in my tests.
010: Most passable buildings and stockpiles.  Levers, armor stands, chairs, etc. Also used for empty space drawbridges land on.
011: Gem windows, raised drawbridges, and forbidden doors.
100: Not found in my tests.
101: Used for open drawbridges, closed hatches and... the trade depot?
110: Impassible portions of workshops, statues.
111: Vertical bars, non-forbidden doors.

While it took some time to isolate dwarves (my fortress has too many possible paths), I was eventually able to block some dwarves in by painting invisible statues (110) over normal floor.  I tried to get them to path through walls by marking them as doors, trade depots, and passable buildings, but the pathfinding algorithm was not fooled.  I didn't have enough open space to perform a real test in my current fortress, but I might set up a test embark to fool around with in a couple days.

[Angel Of Death]

Where do I download the other parts, like DFmode?

[i874236951]

Where do I download the other parts, like DFmode?

Try the command "mode set"

[rampaging-poet]

Alright, I forked the project and committed the first draft of the plugin.  The fork can be found here.  The filltraffic plugin has two commands. The first is the filltraffic command, which flood-fills from the cursor and lets you decide whether to stop on buildings or not.  The second is tiletraffic, which currently just sets the entire map to one traffic level but will eventually check each tile for user-specified criteria before filling.

My quick building occupancy plugin is also included under plugin/devel, but I'm not certain it got listed as a developer plugin correctly as it doesn't seem to be in the Visual Studio project.

Also, should I send you pull requests every time I push to my fork, or only when I've completed a major feature?  I'm new to open-source coding, so I'm unsure of the etiquette involved.  I know better than to send obviously non-functional/broken code, but what other conditions apply?

[PWRFLSTRGN]

Any chance there's a mac version of this somewhere? I just drained all the floodwater out of my fort and this mud is driving me crazy...

[peterix]

Alright, I forked the project and committed the first draft of the plugin.  The fork can be found here.  The filltraffic plugin has two commands. The first is the filltraffic command, which flood-fills from the cursor and lets you decide whether to stop on buildings or not.  The second is tiletraffic, which currently just sets the entire map to one traffic level but will eventually check each tile for user-specified criteria before filling.

Awesome. 

My quick building occupancy plugin is also included under plugin/devel, but I'm not certain it got listed as a developer plugin correctly as it doesn't seem to be in the Visual Studio project.

The devel stuff won't compile by default - you have to enable that in cmake/cmake-gui. Should be the BUILD_DEV_PLUGINS option.

Also, should I send you pull requests every time I push to my fork, or only when I've completed a major feature?  I'm new to open-source coding, so I'm unsure of the etiquette involved.  I know better than to send obviously non-functional/broken code, but what other conditions apply?

Well, do what makes sense to you. Sending pull requests when your code is ready is good, because github will show all the changes and attach an equivalent of a forum thread to each line of code. It's good for reviewing stuff.
You can tell me in any other way as well (IRC, e-mail, etc.). As long as I know that the code is ready for merging, it's fine.

Any chance there's a mac version of this somewhere? I just drained all the floodwater out of my fort and this mud is driving me crazy...

I'm fairly certain there is no working mac version around. I might consider making one, if I get my hands on a *real* mac machine. I tried building a hackintosh, but ended up with something that crashes halfway through the installation. OSX can't handle my ghetto setup

Another possibility is a mac developer showing up and doing all the work instead.

Main problem is getting all the memory offsets right... let's just say the dudes who tried didn't last long enough to make the mac versions usable. So, you might find some code in the github repository, but it's been all obsoleted by now.

[PWRFLSTRGN]

Thanks for the reply!  I'm seriously starting to doubt my PC grudge. I was duped by Justin long and my own hipster tendencies. My next box is going to do a lot more than look good haha.

[mithosaurion]

ok... I am new to this and don't really know what I am doing.  But PLEASE help me.  How do I get dfhack to work? What application do I run?  all of the folders (in the windows version anyway) are xml files png images and the like, I can find no program to actually activate.

[Yoink]

I was just wondering the same thing, funnily enough. The OP needs a guide on how to actually use it...

[Rose]

pretty sure it at least says somewhere that you're supposed to copy it all to the DF folder and then run DF.

[Yoink]

Yeah but, I tried that and it sure didn't work for me.

[Rose]

if you did it right, you should have had to overwrite SDL.dll, and when you open DF, a console will open.

[mithosaurion]

ok, after copying to the Dwarf fortress file and running the program... what then?  How do I actually use it while playing?  is there a key i have to press or something?  I do not want to be annoying but some step by step instructions or some pictures would be nice.
 

[Rose]

do you see a console that opens up with DF?

if so, type help