[new_builder] Impressions and Bug Reports

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Summary:

I’ve finished my first building with the new building editor (Rickety_Building branch) and thought I’d come provide my feedback on the experience. My first impression is that the new builder is a massive improvement on the old building tool. I really think I’ll be able to make much more interesting buildings now without worrying about the extra effort it takes to add complexity to these designs. Selecting and moving rooms around is incredibly useful and creating a second floor to a building is easier than it has ever been. When the tool is totally finished I think it’ll be huge for town customization. Included will be Imgur links to my building.

Now for the bugs, these mostly involve the Stair Tool and the Roof tool. For the stair tool I absolutely couldn’t get it to work beyond creating one that went up only two blocks. When I tried to add more stairs my clicks wouldn’t be registered and the Back button didn’t do anything. I tried to delete the building after and start over but when prompted if I really wanted to delete the building nothing would happen, I ended up just making a new save.
For the Roof tool I couldn’t change which sides were sloped. The default option of front and back was selected and there was no way to select or unselect the tick boxes which led to me manually finishing the side roofs on my building.
When trying to use the “building vision” tool to see into rooms there were also a few weird bugs with some walls and roofs, I will include additional info under the screenshots.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Try building stairs on top of existing stairs
  2. The “wall” sections of roofs are not hidden with the building vision tool
  3. The roof slope boxes are static

Attachments:
Finished Building
This is the finished building. It includes two rooms, a second floor, and a makeshift staircase with the “block” tool.

Build Vision
Here is the cut away version where you can see some graphical glitches or bugs, namely that the “wall” section of roofs does not hide when in building vision mode.

Version Number and Mods in use:
I’m using the rickety_building branch with no mods

System Information:
Running Windows 10, let me know if you need any extra info for this section.

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Got the same issue with the tick boxes of the roof tool.

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if you deselect the placed roof and reselect it, the checkboxes works, at least they did for me. i hope they fix this when the rooftool gets the overhaul :slight_smile:

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I just discovered that as well when messing with it again. Very buggy but super fun so far!

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Yep, loaded another save and it worked. Capricious little build.
Edit: There’s no way yet to change the amount of a roof overhangs, right? If I drag the roof back a bit, the wall will move as well.

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As far as I’ve seen so far there is no option to extend the roof overhang unfortunately

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