- Land Survey: add a few things~ UI like CAD functions

[maze]

The Land survey needs some changes to make it a little better then what it is, currently a few hotkeys and maybe a [?] for the hotkeys that can be used.

Current style: Ground level


#1 Suggestion: Add lines amoung the dots
Selecting a line allows you to interact with dots on that line at once.



#2 Interaction with a dot or line or sqaure: Highlight the dot or the line or square as the current editing.

#3 Add buttons for more (better) interactions:
- Lower: lowers the point by 0.1 (these are for users with disability's or trouble mouse dragging)
- Raise: raises the point by 0.1 (these are for users with disability's or trouble mouse dragging)
- Lowest to the lowest point: lowing the line or point equal to the lowest point selected in all dots
- Highest to the highest point: Raise the line or point equal to the highest point selected in all dots

- Center between: Centers the line or point between the highest and lowest
- Flatten: flattens out the line or sqaure so that they're the same.
- Slope all: will take the 2 lowest point and the 2 highest point and make the field into a slope. If 3 points are the same place it will give a warning to lower one point
- Lock: locks the point or line in place so that it does not move (regardless of button press a small lock should be on the point)

-Select all (I know this is already a toggle): select all points

#4 add a [?] in the top nextto the [x] for any info of hotkeys or toggle information that might be hidden (they should be buttons to be honest)

[vipes]

Seconded.

[caz]

Yes

[SexyBigBoobaDakkan]

A lock button that makes the gridpoints unclickable and click-transparent would help with a lot of the current complaints. Bringing back the elevation slider would also help some people who can't figure out the current system.

[Nexefor]

this feels like something for the custom clients crowd more than for the actual game (I do want it tho)

[mvgulik]

Bringing back the elevation slider would also help some people who can't figure out the current system.

The problem with not having a slider is not really that users don't get it as some point. Its that you need to zoom-in to have better fine-grained height control. While you also need to zoom out again to view the whole thing for larger survey's.

The problem with a slider is that it needs some range/boundary limitations. (the new system has no need for that, it just depends on you mouse up/down movement. Ergo: The slider was ditched.)
Simple Up & Down buttons would help better for fine-height control (whole survey), independent of current zoom levels, than re-adding a height slider.

Having additional Shift, Ctrl, Alt support to control the Mouse-movement vs Height-change ratio comes to mind too.

[mvgulik]

A lock button would be nice.

Nicer seems if the survey locks by default, and allows height adjusting while Shift/Ctrl/Alt is pressed. (No need to keep clicking some button to lock/unlock the survey.)
A [?] help button on the survey window itself seem not unimportant. (some help-window only accessible trough the game-menu will not cut it.)

[mvgulik]

Survey grid-lines: Absolutely yes.

Could potentially (also) use some (stepped) coloring based on the line angle/height difference. Could make making nice smooth slopes a way nicer exercise. The transparent survey-area overlay coloring is to fine-grained for that.