New Ingame Tool

  • Fusionftw
    18th May 2019 Member 2 Permalink

    Tape Measure - New Tool

     

    Characteristics:

    • It has the icon of a tape measure.

    • Tooltip: “Tape measure, use it to measure distances.”

    • To use, you click a point, move your mouse in the direction you want it to go (x, y, diagonal) and click again to create the other point, or you can move your mouse in the direction and type in a value (ex: 20px) to create the second point.

    • It can be enabled and disabled by a tab in the top right side with the letter M. It would be labeled “Tape Measures”. If off, it would hide all tape measures in the save.

     

    Properties:

    • It would look like a dotted line between two points.

    • You can hover on each tape measure to select them to see their length, or click them and press backspace to delete them.

    • You can also deco the tape measures by clicking on them with the deco tool; they have a default color of white.

    • Tape measures persist even when a save is published or updated.

    • When making a new tape measure near to another one, the first point will snap to the closest point (optional).

     

    Uses:

    • Precise measurements of distances in a save.

    • It would let you build complex saves easier.

     

    Concept Image Link:

    https://imgur.com/a/KF7XUsm 

    Edited 6 times by Fusionftw. Last: 18th May 2019
  • phox
    18th May 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    I like this

  • jacob1
    18th May 2019 Developer 0 Permalink
    This reminds me of tpt.setdebug(0x4). That makes measurements show up on screen when you use line and box tools. They don't stick around forever though.
  • Fusionftw
    18th May 2019 Member 0 Permalink

    Yeah, I kind of based it off of  tpt.setdebug(0x4), but I thought it would be nice to have a measuring tool that you can easily use and have it be customizable.