Game Development: Surveyor's Delight

[Dawidio123]

What about the traveling merchant playstyle guys?

[jackykill]

What about the traveling merchant playstyle guys?

what about it? risky but possible.

[Newbie53]

I want the old system back. In this new system it's possible to tell if Terrain is perfectly flat anymore. The old system gave a slider to make sure all Terrain was the same exact heigh.

[Newbie53]

The slider was a bit annoying, because it would often move 2 steps when I only wanted one, but it was easy to understand, and didn't require me to have something in survey range that was already the desired level. I could easily do "make this whole area one notch lower/higher" - something I did routinely when I wanted earth to level elsewhere, or wanted to dispose of earth without making an unsightly mess.

Is this effectively a complaint that it's hard to make fine adjustments to the level, or am I misunderstanding you? The current setting is that 10 pixels of vertical mouse movement causes a change of one Z unit to the point(s) being dragged. I will admit it never even crossed my mind that this would be too course. Are you using a somewhat bad mouse or something that causes this to be a problem for you? I don't mean that in a rude manner, nor that I couldn't be persuaded to support bad mice, mind you, just trying to figure out what the problem is.

And how do I select a level, if there isn't a handy reference already present?

Did the previous leveling tool provide a handy reference that the new one doesn't? It wasn't the intention to remove anything.

The slider and color of the dots told you if everything was completely level, the new system doesn't do that at all. What happens instead is the dots now only change to reflect if it's aligned with whatever slope the new script decides to set thus I've wasted tons of stamina trying to get it right.