Easy Facing

[very_bad_soldier]

Lets you rotate buildings with mouse and shows current facing by a big green arrow.

• Hold left mouse button and move mouse in the direction you want to face the building
• If you are placing a factory, it shows a green arrow representing the buildings facing
• To rotate buildings without actually placing them (for queuing or building rows with Shift for example) press META-key (Space)

Updates in 1.3:
-you can now rotate building by pressing META (Space) before placing/clicking
-bugfix: wrong arrow size
-bugfix: wrong arrow position


Updates in 1.2:
-bugfix: shifting arrow bug when building rows

Updates in 1.1 (by Pako):
-you can move the mouse in the direction you want to face the building
-you can use it even when building rows with shift (press META then)
-the arrow gets scaled to better fit the current building
-set drawForAll to "true" if you want the green arrow for all buildings (not just factories)

Thanks to the #lua-guys as always

Download via SpringDownloader or at http://www.springinfo.info/index.php?page_id=690#138

[Argh]

Yay! I'll take a look at this.

[SkyStar]

Nice, this makes me wonder where you guys get your ideas :)

[hoijui]

nice one!

[REVENGE]

Did I mention that you're one of my favorite widget writers?

[manolo_]

nice

[Pendrokar]

Nice, this makes me wonder where you guys get your ideas :)

Probably Emperor:Battle For Dune or Black & White?

[SinbadEV]

Black & White's "Spin the building until you click" thing was weird and kinda cool...

All in all, black and white was an awesome game if you just took out the "morality" thing and the Avatar/Pet

Oh, man, I wonder how close we could get to duplicating the other awesome parts without getting sued?

[Niobium]

If you changed it to face to where your mouse is relative to the building, that would be perfect, and faster to get to the direction you want (Only 1 move)

[Pako]

This widget is most needed when making a build queue because the rotate key is too far from the left shift, but that wasnt working so I improved the widget.

[Jazcash]

YES! I've been waiting for exactly this for ages having written a few topics requesting it over the years :D

MANY THANKINGLINESS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY VBS <3

[Pendrokar]

YES! I've been waiting for exactly this for ages having written a few topics requesting it over the years :D

Search->name:"facing"->author:JAZCASH->LUA, Feature forums

No really suitable matches were found.

[edit]

If you changed it to face to where your mouse is relative to the building, that would be perfect, and faster to get to the direction you want (Only 1 move)

Ah so it's not like Emperor: Battle For Dune

[Jazcash]

YES! I've been waiting for exactly this for ages having written a few topics requesting it over the years :D

Search->name:"facing"->author:JAZCASH->LUA, Feature forums

No really suitable matches were found.

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=18743

Do not question my supremacy.

[manolo_]

pako whats the difference between urs and vbss widget?

[very_bad_soldier]

Thanks for all the nice comments

@Pako: I like nearly all your chances. I hope you don't mind if I put them in the "official" version too (I just put drawForAll to "false" as default). Thanks!

@Niobium: Yes, thats better. Pako already changed it.

[Pendrokar]

written a few topics requesting it over the years :D

Search->name:"facing"->author:JAZCASH->LUA, Feature forums

No really suitable matches were found.

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=18743

Do not question my supremacy.

I forgot how a few looks like...

[Jazcash]

I forgot how a few looks like...

I COULDN'T BE BOTHERED TO GO DIGGING OKAY D:

[smoth]

may I have permission to include this in gundam?

[Regret]

may I have permission to include this in gundam?

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license   = "GNU GPL v2",

[smoth]

Code: Select all

license   = "GNU GPL v2",

Doesn't mean fuck all, just that if I modify it or use it with another widget I have to use a gpl compatible license. That means my PD lua scripts are fien .