vorfract world update June 29


Hello,


This is a world update about what's new in version 25-06-29.
So, in order of importance:
The castle in the starting map has a new pointy roof. And it's starting to look pretty good now, I think.
Also, there are two additional tools in this version called texture-tool and export-object.
And some details:


1. Some textures look better with no texture warp (like wood planks and brick walls) and some look better with texture warp (like sand and rock). Yet some can look good with or without (like the pavement texture). Hence the texture-tool, which allows changing the texture warp factor (between none, small, medium and full). Another thing that it will be able to do is to rotate the texture by 90/180/270 degrees and back to zero. This is missing at the moment but planned (I haven't implemented it yet), since it's pretty useful and doesn't seem very difficult to do. But we'll see.


2. The export-object tool is just barely working at the moment, but its purpose is to (as the name says) let you export only a part of the world, like an object (can be a chair/table/house or some other thing).
Since in vorfract everything is made of cells and a cell depends on its neighbors for its shape, this is not as straightforward as it looks, but it's still doable (and will ultimately prove useful, I think).
Now, the "object" in export-object is an object in the conceptual sense, since it's not possible to actually move it around at this time, but exporting an "object" will detach it from the main body and put it into a separate map. From which it could be imported into another map, once the import-object tool is ready.

Limitations:
Many right now, but most important, it cannot export objects that span across multiple blocks. Hopefully, the functionality will get better with time.


Other than that and some bug fixes, I guess this is it. It's quite a smaller update then I had hoped (the grid tool & edge drawing issues are still not fixed), but I will update the post if I remember anything else that should be here.

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