Currently you can use the scroll bar in a survey to ‘flatten’ an area but what about when you want to create things like ramps? Lets say you wanted to place a 20x2 survey to create a road but you wanted to dig it ramped down, currently you have to do it tile by tile.
My idea is simple, alongside the scroll bar for level height have a scroll bar for angle so you can rotate your survey up to 45 degrees for example.
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Sevenless
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Re: Angled Surveys
As someone who enjoys building with the terrain as opposed to dirt genocide, I'd like this. Exactly how to implement it could be tricky, but I think a reasonable UI is possible. Maybe pick the desired height of each corner of the entire survey area?
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aikidragon
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Re: Angled Surveys
That sounds reasonable and not too hard to implement.Sevenless wrote:Maybe pick the desired height of each corner of the entire survey area?
+1
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Re: Angled Surveys
I got pretty good at doing this manually but +1 from me as well.
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Re: Angled Surveys
+1 god i wish i had that on w9 when i was doing 4x20 ramp step by step.........
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Re: Angled Surveys
+1
I'd like to see this too, but a tip to doing it mildly less time consuming in nature would be to set surveys at least 3 to 4 tiles down the ramp in the direct you're going, bring it to the level you want it and just "make level".
If you're doing a 5 dirt slant you just make level, delete survey, survey next 3 tiles, lower it by 5, make level, repeat. Still time consuming but less so
I'd like to see this too, but a tip to doing it mildly less time consuming in nature would be to set surveys at least 3 to 4 tiles down the ramp in the direct you're going, bring it to the level you want it and just "make level".
If you're doing a 5 dirt slant you just make level, delete survey, survey next 3 tiles, lower it by 5, make level, repeat. Still time consuming but less so
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