The Powder Toy

Pasting Stamps by Pixel and not Wall

  • OmegaSupreme     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Hello everyone.
    I think users should be able to paste stamps by the pixel and not by the 4x4 wall gaps. If it's implemented into the game, users can make create creations and correct mistakes much faster, as well as save a ton of time and space that would otherwise be wasted like the current Stamp Pasting system in use. Any thoughts, suggestions or input?
  • Turban-of-Terror     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Amen I absolutely hate the stamps saving parameters, it just feels weird making stuff according to an invisible grid. Between this and the decor mode I can handle most other problems. Why does the decor mode return to the original screen after you pick a color shade and area on the template and then exit? It will always returnto the regular screen (bar on the right) after you exit it and enter again. This drives me absolutely nuts sometimes too.
  • Neospector     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    And also crash the game with broken walls.
    Thank you, thank you! You've been a great audience! Now I have an elf character who has a storyline to follow, so g'night.

    All joking aside:
    It would break walls inside stamps, and I'd say they're running pretty low on the "best feature ever" scale as is.
  • Turban-of-Terror     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Hmm yeah good point there @Neospecter, never thought about it that way.
  • abczyx123987     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Perhaps have another way to just copy the particles and not the walls, and have that be pasteable by pixel?
    That way, we could have both the current copy/paste, which copies the walls as well but only pastes it on a 4x4 grid (because walls are on a 4x4 grid), and another copy/paste feature that only copies the particles (not walls) but can be pasted by pixel.

    After all, there have been times when I tried to copy and paste something and a wall got copied which I didn't want to get copied....
  • snateraar     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Yup, support.
    Well, someone told me if you take out a stamp you can position it by holding CTRL+arrow keys ;)
  • disturbed666     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Threads about this have been made  earlier so use the searchbar please, but the idea itself is good enough ;p
  • OmegaSupreme     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink

    disturbed666:

    Threads about this have been made  earlier so use the searchbar please, but the idea itself is good enough ;p

    Ok
  • lillepallt     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Reason: tpt is written in a 4x4 grid (gentlemen, start your search engines) and will indeed crash walls. Fix: 1. Copy stuff 2. Bring up the paste and its frames BUT DON'T PASTE IT 3. Hold ctrl + press the arrow keys and move the paste within the paste frames. Voila It's magic *-*
  • ads999     22nd Dec 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Well as we're on the subject of Copy/Pasting, I wish there could be a way to copy/paste the deco layer sometimes. But just the deco layer. So if you have a gun (or something) and some really cool cammo, you can just copy the Camo (Deco layer open) with ctrl+C and paste it with ctrl+V so it decos the gun with only the cammo. It can only deco the elements that are there and not empty space.
    EDIT: This also helps if you have something deco'ed on DMND and want to paste it onto and oddley shaped block of INST, DMND, METL, NSCN and PSCN.
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