Level Land tool (v 0.5, working, please test!)

[Heinz Humpelstrumpf]

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UPDATE! The patch is finished, version 0.5 is available! I noticed no bugs yet, but there might be some. Download it below. I'll post a compiled version soon (Windows) - ADDED

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After playing a long game I came up with the following idea:


I think it would be a good idea to improve the "Level land" tool. Now the tool is only able of making square selections. My idea was to enhance the tool so that when you hold control when dragging the 'square' will be rotate by 45 degrees. So that the land that can be selected is like a vertical vertical line. This drastically improves the easy to work with vertical pieces of track.

I've attached images to clearify this. The first is the normal selection, the second image is when holding control down. It could also be implemented for the dynamite tool.

I also tried to code this myself, bu the code is not (so) good documented to get the hang of things easily

And I would like to add that OpenTTD is really great and I hope it will become even better

[PouncingAnt]

I think this is an admirable idea! have you finished the code for the land leveling?

[Arsenal]

Oh, what a cracking idea!
It'll be brilliant if it comes to fruition.

Get that in there!

[MeusH]

It's a very good idea and I hope it will be attached to next OTTD relase

[ShaggZ]

NICE; this would make it easy to make mountains and stuff :d Thumbs up for this idea

[Alltaken]

how about a circular land tool also

Alltaken

[Born Acorn]

that would be nice too.

[Arsenal]

Where would you use a circular land tool?
The minimum size for circular land tool would be 4x4, 12 dots

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Not sure if this would be regarded as "circular"

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[Heinz Humpelstrumpf]

I don't have any code myself (for what I've seen in the source is a selection always square, so there needs to be a new type of selection added).

A circular tool is not so useful I think.

[PouncingAnt]

after making your diagonally aligned rectangle code, surely making a circle would not be much effort. Its just a tinsy bit of maths and a few code adaptions to what you'll end up with no? I think it would be worth it

[Alltaken]

A circular tool is not so useful I think.

actually it is (IMO)

mountains, volcanos, gently flowing hills and stuff.

being able to drag a single sized tool in any direction and knowing you will not get sharp corners that look square sticking out everywhere is a "great: feature.

me of course being used to photoshop and tablets etc...

also the size of the tool you are using should be able to be increased by the wheel on the mouse i think that would be cool.

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[Arsenal]

A circular tool would be useful in an editor, but I still can't see it's usefulness when playing the game.

[Centennial_Tycoon]

on this idea of raising and levelling land - can it be made like the rct rasiing and lowerig - i mean u should have the option to raise/lower land normally as in with slopes.. but u should aslo be able to make cliffs- i mean even with the feature with whch u can build on slopes, there are still several complincations that arise - especially while tunneling...also a single tile brdige could act as a link betweeen a cliff at one level from another....

[Heinz Humpelstrumpf]

Okay I finally had some time to code this cool addition. See the start post!

[Born Acorn]

It could do with some GUI though. Here is a mock-up