Idea: Ability to create own building designs

[Breakneck9]

This may be getting too detailed but...

I love the ability to create village designs with sectioned walls and gates, would it be possible to implement creating building designs from foundation up?

Castles, Dungeons, Mills, Cook houses, and the like, within the castle walls, or what we currently have as brick walls and palisades? Maybe watch towers that give a view further than we currently have from ground level?

[burgingham]

Custom buildings have been adressed before. At the moment it just seems that the problem is how to implement them. Loftar once said it would be quite difficult, can't remember why exactly but I guess someone else can.

[genusis]

Well personally the best way to do this for houses Would be the same way you did the cellar But to be Done from outside of the house. Like if you have a house he player could chose which side to add the extension to then right click on the house to get a build menu like the Walls do East west south kind of thing. Then the house could be built upon But only if there is Also a stone ground and one of the house structures Present. Once the side is built to tell the game to Extend the Houses inside interior to the direction you built on by adding a Door to the Next Area of the house or by Removing the wall on that side and making the house More expanded when walking into it. The only thing i would say is Make each Peace have its own HP like a wall.

Also For more extensions you could make a 2nd floor by Adding in stairs to the house and the second floor itself could be expanded by clicking on one of the walls and Pressing Expand and having resources and putting a sign in front of the wall. To build on a 2nd story wall though you would need to have another extension in that Direction onto the house. The 2nd story be repaired by the first story's and share there HP.

So basically that would be the best/easiest way to set up the way houses Are just to help you guys out here =].

you would have to make a house array For the houses to set Each direction and how far they can be built in each direction and make New images for those directions.

[OvShit]

The one thingie that`s easy to implement is more preset houses variety. For example, 3x4, 4x5, 5x5, 5x7 and 7x7 variants of Log Cabin and 10x7, 10x9 and 7x12 variants of Stone Mansion. Also, brickwall houses, houses with clay walls and cellar-type shelters.

[genusis]

True But someone wanted a more Customizable Way of doing it and that would have been the easiest way to do it For that purpose but the Preset thing would be a nice idea to but then you could not build onto the house.

[Granger]

With the interior there shouldn't be much of a problem (since it's tile based).
But the outside view is another question, since it has to be modular (to depict the different sizes) - and this afaik will require a completly new system for buildings.

So it might take a while till we get something like this.

[dra6o0n]

Ultima Online
It has housing in a way that you can build a 3 floor building of many sizes and can apply tiles and such to it.
It's a bit complex and VERY costly in that mmo since it costs gold.

[Uriel]

it would make mega lags... system from uo for sure.

[genusis]

lag... well yes and no it will require a bit more to put out what the New addons would look like and make sue players could not walk over them and such. But once loaded it would not cause lag at all. its just like everything else the more stuff they add the More Predetermined Lag caused from the little amount of bandwidth the server can give out plus the amount of players there are.

Other than that It would be a good idea so we won't have to build 5thousand houses for enough space to store stuff. XD

[Potjeh]

Custom houses Sims-style aren't likely to be implemented, because generating good looking roofs is problematic (Sims roofs weren't too hot either). I got my fingers crossed for adding modules to buildings, though.