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NEW SERIES!!!!! YAAAAA!!! Only took me two months to finish

PolyStar Bedroom Series:





Each unit is a circle hallway with 12-3 3x3 bedrooms contained therein. Each polystar bedroom pattern is made from 12-3 bedroom units of corresponding bedroom numbers. Pathing will be long, unless you place one polystar bedroom pattern in another to get a central hallway.

One confirmed combination is the 8 polystar placed inside the 12 polystar.

Also, I now have a certain sort of loathing for odd numbers.

[Jacob/Lee]

I know this sounds... Silly... But, how2macro?

[Aeon Blue]

Okay, I have to go make a tower now. 

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I know this sounds... Silly... But, how2macro?

Because I post my designs as black and white (some have color for specific reasons) you can tidy them up for use in your fort with any graphics -> designation program available for your platform. DF Designator, DF Architech, Chromafort, ect. Links to them are available on the utilities page of the wiki. Each program has different features so make sure you read up to which program thinks which color is which. I use DF Designator which takes black to mean "dig" and uses lime green for your mouse cursor. Since I place no lime green in most of the images it defaults to the top left corner. Edit the design in a free editor such as GIMP (again, what I use) to fit your needs.

In short:
1. Obtain DF Designator
2. Obtain GIMP
3. Put a lime green dot (the exact color is in the Designator manual) in the center of your design.
4. Open Designator and load your design
5. Open DF
6. Place a designation cursor where you want the design (line it up with the lime green dot).
7. Activate Designator and switch to DF
8.
9. Profit

[Itnetlolor]

Those are actually pretty cool designs there. And rather efficient looking while at it too.

EDIT:
An interesting method I wouldn't mind using to design fractal-type designations would be using Illustrator or any similar vector programs, setting up a sort of grid by drawing a line from center, setting an angle divisible within 360 or 180 or even 90, and then use that as my drawing area. Once done with that piece of the pie, I then duplicate it with the center point as the anchor, save for web, and then make sure it works by the pixel.

Of course, having the grid lines optional of being used or not. It can allow for design-ations to be made for just about any scale, and allow for more elaborate designing as well with less effort. Some can be functional, and others (usually stupid spirograph Illustrator silliness) purely for looks. this can also allow for more interesting designs for hallways and such as well; especially if you have a modular gameplan to work with. Just set the grid properly, and work from there.

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The problem is the per pixel part for me. I have this stupid desire to make all the rooms 3x3, so doing anything in illustrator and rotating would ruin all my plans, and probably give me a hernia but if I (or anyone else for that matter) could get around that problem oh the fortress designs that could be made. I tried using inkscape once, but the results were all gradiated, which is another problem of trying to get the program to understand you only want black and white with no inbetween.

You also don't have to set an angle divisible by 360 or whatever, if you make a section less than 360 you can simply place ramps on both edges to produce a spiraling designation pattern. If you pick an angle less than 180, you could have 2 independent spiral sections at once, less than 90 you get 4 sections ect. Which is a really cool thought.....