gui/design

This tool provides a point and click interface to make designating shapes and patterns easier. Supports both digging designations and placing constructions.

Usage

gui/design

Shapes

  • Rectangle

    • They can be hollow or filled using ‘h’.

    • When hollow line thickness can be increased/decreased using ‘T’/’t’.

    • They can be inverted using ‘i’.

  • Ellipse

    • They can be hollow or filled using ‘h’.

    • When hollow line thickness can be increased/decreased using ‘T’/’t’.

    • They can be inverted using ‘i’.

  • Star

    • The default has 5 points, use ‘B’/’b’ to increase/decrease points.

    • They can be hollow or filled using ‘h’.

    • When hollow line thickness can be increased/decreased using ‘T’/’t’.

    • They can be inverted using ‘i’.

    • The next-point offset can be increased/decreased using ‘N’/’n’ which particularly affects 7 point stars and above to make them spikier or smoother, but can also be used to decrease to 1 to make symmetrical polygons or increase to N which only paints the vertexes.

    • The orientation can be changed by adding a main axis point using ‘v’ and moving this to point in the desired direction.

  • Rows

    • Vertical rows can be toggled using ‘v’.

    • Horizontal rows can be toggled using ‘h’.

    • Spacing can be increased/decreased using ‘T’/’t’.

    • They can be inverted using ‘i’.

  • Diagonal

    • Direction can be reversed using ‘r’.

    • Spacing can be increased/decreased using ‘T’/’t’.

    • They can be inverted using ‘i’.

  • Line

    • Line thickness can be increased/decreased using ‘T’/’t’.

    • Can be curved by adding one or more control points using ‘v’.

  • FreeForm

    • Can be toggled open multi-line sequence or closed polygon using ‘y’

    • Line thickness can be increased/decreased using ‘T’/’t’.

Overlay

This tool also provides two overlays that are managed by the overlay framework.

dimensions

The gui/design.dimensions overlay shows the selected dimensions when designating with vanilla tools, for example when painting a burrow or designating digging. The dimensions show up in a tooltip that follows the mouse cursor.

When this overlay is enabled, the vanilla dimensions display will be hidden. When this overlay is disabled, the vanilla dimensions display will be unhidden.

rightclick

The gui/design.rightclick overlay prevents the right mouse button and other keys bound to “Leave screen” from exiting out of designation mode when drawing a box with vanilla tools, instead making it cancel the designation first.