wall of features request: Drawing Grid

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Kzintzi
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wall of features request: Drawing Grid

Post by Kzintzi »

Hey Trevor

could you add a drawing grid to the wall of features??

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Post by trevor »

do you mean extra snap points ?
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I was thinking more of a separate grid grid you can size and place the drawing tools can reference instead of the normal grid - that way your map grid can be 200pix and the drawing grid can be 40pix and offset 14 pix (only an example... I can't think of ever needing to do that 'o)

if possible it should work like the normal grid in that once a texture is placed, it shouldn't move or resize if the drawing-grid is moved or resized.

I hope that's clear.. if not let me know and I'll go into it a bit more..

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Could you give me an example use case for having the different drawing grid ?
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Scaling for starters, If I adjust the grid size for drawing, my token scaling adjusts to the new grid size, as the grid is usually sets to roughly 5' if I want to work smaller than this, I cannot snap.
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Post by Kzintzi »

What CWeord said :D

I've also had occasions where I've gone "doh!! need to draw a wall there" when I'm halfway through laying down my stamps and as soon as you adjust the grid they all move...

whilst not that much of an issue on it's own, it gets bad when I goto adjust the grid to start drawing and realise I've just spent a couple of hours placing stamps with the grid at 10pix instead of 100 or 200 (mind you, snap-to-grid does work REALLY well at 20 pix 'o).

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