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Maveritchell wrote:

Marth8880 wrote:Heh, you should use Slider, the Mass Effect font. If you want I'll provide a link once I find it.

No. Terrible idea. Using some crappy fancy font is a great way to ruin a tool. Stick with something sans-serif and common and boring - it's a tool, not a piece of art.

What? I don't even... Slider's hardly "fancy" or even crappy for that matter, and it's a heck of a lot better than using a serif font. To be honest, Arial would probably be best though. I just like Slider.

Fiodis wrote:It always annoyed me how ZeroEditor's lowercase and uppercase letters looked practically the same.

Heh, I know, right?!?

Maybe there should be a font-customizer thing.

Eh. Fonts aren't high on my things-I-should-get-done list.
Toying a bit more with the buttons, more getting a feel for how Qt's Stylesheets work than anything else.

A gradient with a dark color in the middle where the text is makes the text harder to read.

Just what I'm thinking.

Jes, exactly what Boobasaurus said. A dark background underneath bright text or vice versa will work well. Remember: text should always be white (or a bright shade of grey) or black.

Marth8880 wrote:Jes, exactly what Boobasaurus said.

But in all seriousness, I agree with Marth and Noobasaurus.

Hmm? What did I do?

No Slider.
Arial is great.
If any colors I'd go for black/dark gray + Zero-Orange like ZE.

Marth8880 wrote:Jes, exactly what Boobasaurus said.

What is this madness!?

Yeah, I do actually like ZE's orange-and-grey. Better?

Way better.
The GroupBox borders could be orange, too. And I'd make the buttons/combo boxes squarey in a dark gray with an orange roll over or something.

I agree with ANDE. Either way, I think you're doing a nice work Fiodis.

And after another five days of coding instead of studying for final exams, terrain height brushes are working. This is a terrain I imported perfectly flat, then messed around with: Clipping through the terrain a bit, it can do that at a distance. I'll have to raise it a bit. It's also pretty sensitive. I might tweak down the master sensitivity, but for now you can adjust it with pressure, just like in ZE. With ZeroEdit you can have pressures from 1 to 100, IIRC, but usually (at least for me) most work was done with it in the 10-40 range. In this tool (have yet to decide on a name) you can set a pressure from 0 to whatever, but at the current sensitivity generally you'd want to stay below 30.

Actually you can set negative pressures, and then left-clicking will lower while right-clicking will raise. Heh, I hadn't anticipated that behavior.

Next on the agenda is getting more brush features functional - right now it's locked in the shape of a 5x5 square, and only the raise/lower mode is enabled. Painting (setting all vertices to a single height) ought to be easy, it's blending I need to spend some time thinking about. Resizing should work fine with the present code, actually; I just haven't rigorously tested it. I suspect some bug will show up that I'll have to fix.

Ande, if I catch you on XFire, could you explain how to recolor the group box borders? I can't seem to find that online; the border-color setting doesn't seem to change anything.

Looking good Fiodis. Keep being awesome.

Yep; paint mode working now, too.

wow, that is awesome and motivating !
how is everybody becoming a programming genius? can i get some of that stuff too please?

can you make it possible to place water in diffrent heights? or is that impossible?

LEO wrote:can you make it possible to place water in diffrent heights? or is that impossible?

Impossible.

EDIT: After being so blunt I can only imagine that I must, in some way, be wrong.

Dreadnot9 wrote:

LEO wrote:can you make it possible to place water in diffrent heights? or is that impossible?

Impossible.

EDIT: After being so blunt I can only imagine that I must, in some way, be wrong.

This is just a GUI for creating/editing .wld (and associated) files. There's nothing here that you couldn't do with a text editor, outside of generating the terrain (which isn't human-readable). While it's a neat-looking tool, it doesn't change the game or its limitations.

A request: the ability to change the density, or subdivision level, if you will, of the terrain, which I'm almost positive must be possible since space terrain is lower-res than normal terrain.