HELP PLEASE Restricting building areas [solved]

[jamieg]

I'm having the hardest time with a sand pit... I have it working but not how i want, at the moment my people can create 10 bags of sand but it cost 1 metal and about 20-30 seconds, and you can place the sandpit anywhere.

I would like it so it can only be built on sand and so that it does not require anything to make except the time it take them to dig if you get me, I've been playing around with this loads, tried the whole restriction like with a geothermal on a steam geyser ect but im all out of ideas

SOMEONE PLEASE GET BACK TO ME ASAP WHILST MY INSPIRATION IS RUNNING WILD

[ItchyFlea]

<SurfaceNeeded> and <SurfacesSupported> are the tags you'll need to work with to restrict placement to just sand and nothing else. Unfortunately there isn't a surface type just for sand that isn't shared by the other terrain types. You'll need to create a separate one, probably with a .dll, and use that.

As for taking time but for free, keep the <WorkToBuild> tag but remove the <CostList> one.

[jamieg]

Thank you once again Itchy!! I ow ya! Although i may need to hold for a few days or so on this as i am too nooby for dll at the moment and will need Zelldot to teach me

[Kirid]

I think your best bet would be <SurfaceNeeded> <li>Diggable</li> </SurfaceNeeded> That includes only sand, soil, rich soil, and gravel. Light includes alot more things like floors and stone.
I'm pretty nooby at dll editing atm also, but this idea doesn't seem too hard.

[WorldOfIllusion]

You could try making a custom PlacementRestricter for it.

And then explain to me why mine don't work

[jamieg]

As for taking time but for free, keep the <WorkToBuild> tag but remove the <CostList> one.

I ment in the BagOfSand recipe when removing the resources required to make it, it causes the game to get very vibrant in colour when my pawns try to use it, then it crashes so i had to set it to cost 1 wood to make which bugs me

[jamieg]

I think your best bet would be <SurfaceNeeded> <li>Diggable</li> </SurfaceNeeded> That includes only sand, soil, rich soil, and gravel. Light includes alot more things like floors and stone.
I'm pretty nooby at dll editing atm also, but this idea doesn't seem too hard.

Does ANYONE know of a replacment for Diggable in this that is for sand only? because this is almost spot on

[Kirid]

Not unless you define a new Surface Type.  Any, Light, Heavy, GrowSoil, Diggable, SmoothHard, SmoothableStone are the only types currently.
I'm looking at the SurfaceType dll right now trying to figure out how define a new one  I'm not sure how to build class files into a dll.

[jamieg]

Not unless you define a new Surface Type.  Any, Light, Heavy, GrowSoil, Diggable, SmoothHard, SmoothableStone are the only types currently.
I'm looking at the SurfaceType dll right now trying to figure out how define a new one  I'm not sure how to build class files into a dll.

I think (as this is for our full conversions) that i will change steam geysers to something like Sink holes as an example and set the restrictions probs be the easier way.

[ItchyFlea]

I ment in the BagOfSand recipe when removing the resources required to make it, it causes the game to get very vibrant in colour when my pawns try to use it, then it crashes so i had to set it to cost 1 wood to make which bugs me

Ahh, I see.
A workaround would be to make it cost 1 of something, and have the recipe result include that something as well as the bag of sand.

[jamieg]

so it could cost 1 wood but you get it back with the bag of sand.... why didnt i think of this! ITCHY you genius :p

[pawnstorm]

You could try making a custom PlacementRestricter for it.

And then explain to me why mine don't work

Show me yours, I'll show you mine

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    public class PlacementRestricter_OnlyOne : PlacementRestricter
    {
        public override AcceptanceReport CanPlaceWithRestriction(EntityDef checkingDef, IntVec3 loc, IntRot rot)
        {
            if (Find.ListerBuildings.ColonistsHaveBuilding((ThingDef) checkingDef))
            {
                return new AcceptanceReport("Can only build one of those.");
            }
            return true;
        }
    }

You could probably make something like that which checks for sand too. Maybe using TerrainGrid.TerrainAt?

[Cala13er]

Since we're exposing Placement Restrictors, here's mine for the hydro plants of Industrial RIM. Just so people can learn from it .

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public class PlacementRestricter_NextToHydroAccepter : PlacementRestricter
{
public override AcceptanceReport CanPlaceWithRestriction(EntityDef Building, IntVec3 loc, IntRot rot)
{
foreach (IntVec3 current in GenAdj.AdjacentSquares8Way(loc))
{
foreach (Thing current2 in Find.get_Grids().ThingsAt(current))
{
ThingDef thingDef = ThingDef.Named("HydroPowerPlant");
ThingDef thingDef2 = ThingDef.Named("HydroPool");
ThingDef thingDef3 = ThingDef.Named("HydroAccelerator");
ThingDef thingDef4 = ThingDef.Named("HydroAdvancedTurbine");
if (current2.def == thingDef)
{
AcceptanceReport result = true;
return result;
}
if (current2.def == thingDef2)
{
AcceptanceReport result = true;
return result;
}
if (current2.def == thingDef3)
{
AcceptanceReport result = true;
return result;
}
if (current2.def == thingDef4)
{
AcceptanceReport result = true;
return result;
}
}
}
return "Must be placed next to a hydroplant, hydropool, hydroaccelerator or advancedhydroturbines";
}
}


[Tynan]

Not tested, but this should work.

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public class PlacementRestricter_OnlyOnSand : PlacementRestricter
{
        public override AcceptanceReport CanPlaceWithRestriction(EntityDef checkingDef, IntVec3 loc, IntRot rot)
        {
            if( Find.TerrainGrid.TerrainAt( loc ) != TerrainDef.Named("Sand") )
               return "Can only place on sand."
            else
                return true;
        }
    }


[Cala13er]

Not tested, but this should work.

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public class PlacementRestricter_OnlyOnSand : PlacementRestricter
{
        public override AcceptanceReport CanPlaceWithRestriction(EntityDef checkingDef, IntVec3 loc, IntRot rot)
        {
            if( Find.TerrainGrid.TerrainAt( loc ) != TerrainDef.Named("Sand") )
               return "Can only place on sand."
            else
                return true;
        }
    }


Oh, I thought someone had already resolved his problem.

Apart from that, +1 that code. Works fine.