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Controls and usability questions/requests

A topic by kaiiboraka created Jul 18, 2022 Views: 445 Replies: 1
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Hey there, great app. I've used the generator to get really close to something I'd like, but now I want to tweak it in greater detail. 

  • First is there a way to zoom out? There are nodes off-screen that are making it difficult to change the coastline to be the way I want it.
  • Is there a way to move a solitary node? This soft select brush is useful sometimes, but I'm really struggling to make it behave the way I want, as it inadvertently grabs nodes I didn't intend and then makes a tangled mess, that Relax+Bloat+Equalize can only partially help with. Grabbing one node at a time would let me isolate problem nodes a lot easier.
  • If I could grab single nodes, it would also be nice to multi-select specific nodes as well, so I could, for instance, move an entire length of wall or river or coastline at once.
  • For related reasons, I'd like a way to view all of the nodes at once in warp mode, instead of only on hover. Perhaps if they were all black, and the ones on-hover maintained their red/growing behavior on top of it.
  • While I'm at it, is there a way to change the affection radius of all of these warp tools? Many of them are either much too small or far too large at a given time, and this medium sized brush is like perfectly inconvenient in its size sometimes.
  • In general, is there a simple way to generate a coastal map that's not so concave, but rather convex? If it's not in the pipeline for the generator to do such a thing, then is it possible to change the contents/type of a given polygon? Like some of them are denoted to be water, land, or city, etc. If I could, for instance, simply change a polygon to be water instead of land, it would solve the problem instantly.
  • Type change would be great for walls and roads, as well, to add or remove where it makes sense for what I'm imagining
  • Another tool I thought would be helpful is the opposite of bloat, namely "shrink." 

I think that's most of it for now. Thanks for the amazing tool!

Developer
  • There is no zoom feature in the generator. I know it's inconvenient but there are technical reason for that. I hope the issue will be resolved eventually.
  • You can change the brush size of warp tools with the mouse wheel (alternatively, the +/- keys). With a very small brush you can pick single nodes and using a very large one you can see (and grab) all the nodes.
  • The generator produces convex coastlines occasionally, but it happens relatively rarely. In the next big update I am planning to remake all the water (including rivers) and that should allow more diverse and more interesting land shapes.
  • In City Painter (https://www.patreon.com/posts/city-painter-39697187) it was possible to "paint" water, land, roads etc. This project is abandoned.

Cheers!