{"id":1217,"date":"2010-04-20T21:41:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2010-04-20T21:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:41:09","slug":"placing-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2010\/04\/20\/placing-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Placing buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BuildPreview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1218\" title=\"BuildPreview\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BuildPreview-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BuildPreview-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BuildPreview.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>More on interface niceties. \u00a0Today I&#8217;ve half-converted the building placement interface to the new script-based system.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;half-converted&#8221;, because while the new system is completely functional, the UI hasn&#8217;t been adjusted to actually use it yet; \u00a0if you click on the buttons in the usual build interface, you still get the old interface. \u00a0The new interface is very similar, except that before you click to place a building, you get a wireframe outline showing precisely where the building will appear if you click.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the wireframe drawing needs a little work; \u00a0it currently isn&#8217;t drawing any vertical lines. \u00a0I&#8217;ll need to fix that eventually, but it&#8217;s probably good enough for milestone one. \u00a0Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll get to actually wiring up the build pane to use the new cursor control code.<\/p>\n<p>After that, I&#8217;ll just need to convert the road-placing interface and the terrain-painting interface, and this side of things will be nicely settled.<\/p>\n<p>Stopping early today because there&#8217;s a spectacular lightning storm going on outside, which I want to watch. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on interface niceties. \u00a0Today I&#8217;ve half-converted the building placement interface to the new script-based system. I say &#8220;half-converted&#8221;, because while the new system is completely functional, the UI hasn&#8217;t been adjusted to actually use it yet; \u00a0if you click on the buttons in the usual build interface, you still get the old interface. \u00a0The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-jD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}