1 Topic by IlyaGulya

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Topic: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

Hi all!
I saw the two buttons: CW and CCW.
It's rotates only quads.
So, can you add the function of rotating the tiles?
Thanks in advance.

2 Reply by 0³7

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

No this wouldnt work i think, if you for example want to turn a quad around you can also chane the degree:
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5201/screenshot0003sa9.png
if you have for example a collision from the gamelayer in your brush and turn it for 45° it would be very buggy anyway...
so i dont think it works...

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3 Reply by IlyaGulya

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

It's so pity(((
Thanks.

4 Reply by Somerunce

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

Why would you need to do this?
Seems totally unnecessary to me.

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

i think only a 90 degree rotating would have a sense cause then you can use 1 tile for nearly all actions and the tilesets data size would decrease a bit

6 Reply by Somerunce

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

This seems kinda unnecessary. A good tileset has tiles that should be used for what they are able to be used to.

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

yeah but custom tilesets let the map data size explode cause they have to be embedded

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

Hmm, i fully agree with Marik16. This will dicrease the map size very much.

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

IlyaGulya wrote:

Hmm, i fully agree with Marik16. This will dicrease the map size very much.

Not categorically -- most tilesets are made in a style where you cannot simply rotate tiles without messing up the shading. Unless the map diverges from that style, the optimization will be minor.

10 Reply by Landil (edited by Landil 2008-11-08 14:38:48)

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

I would say we're speaking about less than ~15kb per tileset, which we can "save" e.g. in the grass_main tileset we could cut three tiles because of the rotating feature. But if you do that, you would reduce comfort.

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

But i won't rotate the tile for 30, or 10 degrees, if i would rotate it for 90 degrees , it wouldn't miss the quality.

12 Reply by catpaw (edited by catpaw 2008-11-09 07:21:02)

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Re: [IDEA] Rotating the brush

honestly i've never understood why 90 degrees rotating is not possible for tiles, since some tilesets do have 90 degree rotated picture data within.

user comfort is eitherway a feature the teeworld level editor hardly provides. It could greatly be improved by improving the tile selection screen.