Scissor Tool

Would it be possible to add a scissor tool for editing polywalls?

- Imagine a big, square polywall.
- Plot some vertices in the middle of the polywall via right click as though you're drawing a regular wall. Ensure vertices connect to form a shape.
- Hit enter or delete and your selection disappears from the polywall.

Currently, the only way to make gaps/holes in a polywall is to add a bunch of vertices, move them all around, and just hope you don't need a couple of holes in a small space. Seriously, the vertice management is a massive pain.

Along with polywalls, allow the scissor tool to be used on a regular wall. Super useful if you have a long wall that needs to be sliced up. Instead of trying to create two new walls that imitate the existing wall, just use a scissor tool to cut out a section of the wall, and two vertices form instantly at the extraction point.

Applications:
- "Encased design," ie. putting a playing area inside of a large polywall to give the impression that the map is "encased." I know quartz uses this design a lot.
- Would be infinitely easier to carve a path through a polywall with a scissor tool instead of having to shuffle around vertices.
- Cutting up long walls easily.
- Mazes and traps.
- Art potential.

Just a suggestion. Another way to accomplish this would be a "merge tool" that merged two or more polywalls into one, but I reckon that would be harder to design for UI's sake, and I think a scissor tool would generally be easier to use.

Hope this made sense.

Would it be possible to add a scissor tool for editing polywalls?

- Imagine a big, square polywall.
- Plot some vertices in the middle of the polywall via right click as though you're drawing a regular wall. Ensure vertices connect to form a shape.
- Hit enter or delete and your selection disappears from the polywall.

Currently, the only way to make gaps/holes in a polywall is to add a bunch of vertices, move them all around, and just hope you don't need a couple of holes in a small space. Seriously, the vertice management is a massive pain.

Along with polywalls, allow the scissor tool to be used on a regular wall. Super useful if you have a long wall that needs to be sliced up. Instead of trying to create two new walls that imitate the existing wall, just use a scissor tool to cut out a section of the wall, and two vertices form instantly at the extraction point.

Applications:
- "Encased design," ie. putting a playing area inside of a large polywall to give the impression that the map is "encased." I know quartz uses this design a lot.
- Would be infinitely easier to carve a path through a polywall with a scissor tool instead of having to shuffle around vertices.
- Cutting up long walls easily.
- Mazes and traps.
- Art potential.

Just a suggestion. Another way to accomplish this would be a "merge tool" that merged two or more polywalls into one, but I reckon that would be harder to design for UI's sake, and I think a scissor tool would generally be easier to use.

Hope this made sense.

The merge tool already exists sky!! Just select two things, and press J

[Skybax]

lol I just had to do this today, it was a pain. A scissor tool would be great.
I will try the merge thing and see if that works tho

[kaen]

I wrote this last month. Great minds think alike

[watusimoto]

@kaen: Is that a plugin that does that, or is it in the editor proper?

[raptor]

It's part of his kaentools I told you about, built for 019.

[kaen]

This plugin that I wrote actually supports all four boolean polygon operations. For more details about this, you can read about it on wikipedia. Here are some more examples of what you can do:

Polygon subtraction with multiple arguments:



Polygon subtraction which creates holes:



Polygon intersection:

@kaen: Is that a plugin that does that, or is it in the editor proper?

It's a plugin which was the original use case for the new Geom.clipPolys Lua method.

AWW YISS.

That's way cooler than I even imagined. Props, man.

Also, merge tool, whaaat? Maybe I should start reading the changelog notes...

props.

to the victor goes the spoils

Did the scissor tool plugin make it into 019?

[raptor]

They did not - I think they are actually out-of-date with the Lua API changes in the editor. You'll have to poke kaen about updating them.

[watusimoto]

But since they are plugins, you can add them to your Bitfighter without having to wait for a new release. (If you can get the updated code, that is!)

pokes kaen

[Skybax]

pokes kaen

I did that too immediately after reading this, except on IRC

Maybe if we yell his name really loudly

kaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeen

[Skybax]

That was the sissiest yell I've ever read.

KAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNN

[kaen]

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2161

[Little_Apple]

I hope I'm not too late..

[Skybax]

Dude that went perfectly that was awesome lol

[kaen]

I hope I'm not too late..

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[Little_Apple]

Aww yehhhh

works great :]