vfig on 7/6/2020 at 00:07
This workflow won't suit everyone by any means, but it's useful for me, so I'm sharing it here in case it's useful for anyone else:
Previously I blocked out my map using only Jorge and a few stock fam textures, but this time around I made a (
https://github.com/adurdin/dromed-config/tree/master/Common/EditorMod/fam/dev) set of simple dev textures so I can more easily tell different parts of the map apart by colour, and measure room sizes by eye. But the whole point of dev textures is that I shouldn't have to stop to think, so having to apply them with the texture palette or typing numbers into the gfh was awkward and annoying. But no longer!
I've set up a simple workflow where I can press
shift+t to fully reset the selected brush back to Jorge, or
t to assign my currently chosen dev texture.
The hotkeys are set up in default.bnd:
Code:
edit bind t "run .\cmds\SetTexture.cmd" ; Set specific texture.
edit bind t+shift "run .\cmds\ResetTexture.cmd" ; Set default texture.
The ResetTexture.cmd script is straightforward:
Code:
; Reset all faces and set default texture to Jorge:
reset_brush_tx
set_brush_def_tx 0
The SetTexture.cmd script assigns the texture according to the index in 'tx' config variable; if 'tx' has not been set yet (in this session) it will change nothing but instead print a warning to the monolog:
Code:
; Reset all faces and set default texture to 'tx'
ifdef tx reset_brush_tx
ifdef tx eval tx set_brush_def_tx %s
ifndef tx mprint 'set tx NNN' to change default tx.
I'm typically using one texture for the whole exterior of each building, and another for interior rooms. I can easily type
:set tx 99 to select texture index 99 for the current dev texture, and apply it to as many brushes as I need by selecting each and hitting
t:
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/36SgHki.jpg(Note that because 'tx' is not a built-in config variable, it doesn't get saved back to a .cfg file, so I either have to set it each session, or add a default to dromed.cfg (t.g.
tx 1) or Startup.cmd (e.g.
set tx 1). For now I'm just setting it each session, cause I'd rather have no default than a default that I will always want to change anyway.)
(In fact I went a little further and made (
https://github.com/adurdin/dromed-config/blob/master/Common/Cmds/SetTexture.cmd) my SetTexture.cmd script use another variable for the 'bottom' texture of the brush, so that floors and walls are more distinct from each other. But that's probably overkill!)
PinkDot on 7/6/2020 at 12:58
Wait, I never realized that you could use config variables in Dromed commands nor the ifdef/ifndef statements!
That's some more power to the commands system, otherwise extremely limited.
Good job with this setup. I guess I need to come up with one to change scale on all the sides of a brush to a set value.
Thanks for sharing the idea.
vfig on 7/6/2020 at 15:51
Unfortunately I don't think there's any Dromed commands to set the texture scale :(
PinkDot on 7/6/2020 at 23:36
Oh, no... :( There isn't any indeed...
