Feature Request - Quick Generate

ID:136429
 
Oct 25 2002, 10:08 pm
In the icon editor in DM, under Graphic, there could be the Quick Generate selection.

Clicking this would bring up a dialog, displayed 4 options. /turf, /obj, /mob, and /area. You would select one of these, and there would be a text entry field labelled "Destination File:". After selecting the type, and inputting a file name (or selecting it from a drop-down list of files in the workspace), you would click ok.

armor.DMI contains 5 icons, labelled armor1-armor5

After selecting the type /obj, and the filename equipment.dm, the program would generate this text at the top of equipment.dm

obj
armor1
icon = 'armor.dmi'
icon_state = "armor1"
armor2
icon = 'armor.dmi'
icon_state = "armor2"
armor3
icon = 'armor.dmi'
icon_state = "armor3"
armor4
icon = 'armor.dmi'
icon_state = "armor4"
armor5
icon = 'armor.dmi'
icon_state = "armor5"

Make sense? I think this would be very useful, especially used in conjunction with import. Would save tons of time too.


~Polatrite~
Oct 25 2002, 11:19 pm
I suggested this once, about turfs, but people said make ur own. I reckon its a great idea!
Oct 26 2002, 6:52 am
In response to Mrhat99au
I've actually already made this with Turfs. I've been using it myself for quite a time..now that I think about it, it would be a great thing to release, so I guess I'll do that within the day or so.
Oct 27 2002, 10:04 am
In response to Darkness
Heh. I also have a snippet that writes a DM file based on instances given to it in a list -- the types are equal to [type]/[name] (eg. if you had a /mob/player named Spuzzum, it'd be converted to /mob/player/Spuzzum), and it sets all of the variables that aren't equal to their initial values.