45° rotated rectangle clearing / leveling patch

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45° rotated rectangle clearing / leveling patch

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I made a patch that allows you to clear or level rectangle areas rotated 45°. This allows you to clear or level diagonal stretches of land. That, imho, makes constructing diagonal rails or roads a lot less bothersome.

I've tested the patch myself, and I can't find any problems with it anymore. If you find any, please tell me. Since my windows compiler won't compile with .png support I can't add screenshots. Feel free to add your own :)

A final note for the coders: As a bonus I added some extra comments here and there in the code in this patch.

[edit]
Oh, before I forget. Use ctrl to use this feature.
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Some screenies of this feature (many thanks to HackyKid):
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Selecting an area for clearing
Selecting an area for clearing
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... and clearing it
... and clearing it
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More Screenies:
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... and leveling it
... and leveling it
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Selecting an area for leveling
Selecting an area for leveling
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Post by mkxx »

Good work! Looking for use this in latest nightly ;o)
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Post by Nanaki13 »

WOW :)
That's all I'll say about this patch.
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Post by bobingabout »

how do you control between diagonal and square flatterning?
JPG SUX!!! USE PNG!!!
There are times when JPG is useful, TTD screenshots is not one of them. Please use PNG instead.

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Post by Jump »

bobingabout wrote:how do you control between diagonal and square flatterning?
ctrl :)
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Post by bobingabout »

sounds simple. i supose "Activate these options" means "Use this feature".
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Post by Diadem »

bobingabout wrote:sounds simple. i supose "Activate these options" means "Use this feature".
Eh, yes, it does. I changed it now in the first post :)
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Post by Heinz Humpelstrumpf »

Very nice patch, but I had already made it :o

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=14264

That version of mine is not fixed for the newer releases as there was little interest in it an I have not so much time now.
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Post by Diadem »

Hmm, two different patches that do the same thing.

Well, my patch is newer (so less conflicts), and seems to work flawlessly. Also, my patch works for the dynamite tool as well. So to be honest, I don't see any reason to choose your patch over mine.

But of course you're welcome to look into my patch and improve it, if you spot anything that you did better than me, coding-wise.
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this is a must have

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wonderful!
Everything that makes construction easier is a must have!
How can we novices download it and put it into action?
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Post by Conditional Zenith »

You can wait until it makes it into the integrated/nightly builds, or you can check the code out of SVN, apply the patch, and compile it yourself. If you want to try the latter, check out http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/SVN#Source_code

Note that the diff is against revision 2478. You can try to apply it to a later version and it might work (it depends on whether the code this patch is for has been worked on since).

Good luck.
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Post by DaleStan »

In a different thread, SirkoZ wrote:Could someone update the 45° to the latest source,
Because I was getting tired of bughunting NFORenum:
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Post by webfreakz.nl »

great :D

I'll apply the patch asap 8)
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Post by peter1138 »

Hmm, any chance of a patch without a huge #define?
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Post by micomico »

Rediffed against trunk r9715.

I'm posting the patch this in this old topic, because another recent topic about this patch is now locked.
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Post by NukeBuster »

micomico wrote:Rediffed against trunk r9715.

I'm posting the patch this in this old topic, because another recent topic about this patch is now locked.
I was hoping someone would rediff this one. Thanks A LOT!
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Post by belugas »

Reviving this patch is nice.
But will it EVER be fixed?
This huge macro is a big no-no...
Tip for the next patch (or the next patcher) : remove the macro and have a function instead.
Ho... and check comment/code style too...
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Post by micomico »

How does it look like now?

I think a function would complicate the code more in this case, but i've unfolded the macro and changed the code/comment style.
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