Suggestion: steep and shallow chisels

[DKPuncherello]

This would be a literal game changer as far as creative possibilities, and shouldn’t be too hard to implement. I know the big issue with many chisel ideas is how to implement in game. @lucadeltodecso?

Shallow: black box shows a side view with 6 corners precise chiseled (or 3 corners non-precise). Red box shows a side view with 2 corners precise chiseled (or 1 corner non precise)

Steep: Red box shows a side view with 6 corners precise chiseled (or 3 corners non-precise). Black box shows a side view with 2 corners precise chiseled (or 1 corner non precise)

Half slab would work the same as with bevel chisel.

(I should have rotated the other direction oh well, you guys get the idea)

Can someone mock up what this might look like in 3d? Perhaps @dulki?

This would allow for:
All kinds of cool art possibilities - better roofs, better spheres and circles, and more
Steeper, more compact ramps/stairs in builds, helping (slightly) with compactness
Shallower, more elegant ramps/stairs

[Cuetzpalomitl]

@DKPuncherello

I know the big issue with many chisel ideas is how to implement in game.

In one of the many new chisel tools threads one of the devs said that the problem with more new chisels is that they need to add a lot of new blocks, because each block need an alternate version for every chisel combination and then you have color variations and that takes time.

I agree that having more chiseling options would be cool

[Buugi]

You can do shallow roof using bevel and chisel epic. You can do steep kinda with slope

[DKPuncherello]

@Cuetzpalomitl

they need to add a lot of new blocks, because each block need an alternate version for every chisel combination and then you have color variations and that takes time.

Um, are you sure?

[Cuetzpalomitl]

@lucadeltodecso

That is 99.99% not going to happen, at least not for 1.0. It would require a momentous amount of work to have steeper/shallow slope shapes and be a performance hit on the way the physics in the game works too. Being able to “mix” chisel types like one corner being “bevelled off” and one corner “cubed off” would also absolutely explode the amount of shapes that would be possible, and that someone (me likely) would have to go and define and make work. there are already now with square/bevel/slope chiselling 660’ish shapes, being able to mix the chiselling would make it millions.

Best i found was this, but seems like he is focusing more on combination of chisels.

But you get the idea, more chisels mean more work lol.

Who knows we may get a new chisels eventually? We got the fence like boon which o forgot it’s name lol

[DKPuncherello]

Yeah that sounds like a different issue. Let’s see what the great @lucadeltodecso says!

[Dulki]

[Odeon]

Weekly Dev Update: 2017 July 21st, 28th, August 4th - Slope Chisel, Square Chisel, and maybe Bevel Chisel and more!

[HalfSlope_Blocks_01] Something like this @Zina; That would be nice

@DKPuncherello
I know I like to see these block shapes to
But I think it ain’t gonna happen soon;
… way to much extra block shapes and block data to handle.
Great idea though

[Sterbehilfe]

You’re like a magician! When someone asks for a specific shape or item, “Poof” you’ve made it appear out of nowhere less than a few seconds of reading later! Always an amazing job @Dulki!!!

[Odeon]

@DKPuncherello
I assume you want it to be fully rotatable

Then you need 48 new shapes

Can you imagine what is needed if you also want the matching corner pieces …

I think @james certainly doesn’t want to know that …
It would be fun for us to build with these blocks

[MrNiX]

I’ll admit, miss this sort of thing from space engineers

[Krollbar]

How about a point to point chisel then…? Where the slope is defined by the beginning point and the end point…?

[DKPuncherello]

Bumpy bump

[Cuetzpalomitl]

That’s probably impossible

[Krollbar]

Yeah it’s a bit more basic than a voxel unit but wouldn’t play nice with a voxel world.

[Cuetzpalomitl]

That’s for sure, you could slope blocks from bottom and top at the same time!

[DKPuncherello]

Just wanted to resurrect this thread, since I just watched a Hytale video and Hytale has these slopes

They look amaaaaaaazing for roofs and ramps

Hytale Gameplay – Propzie Modern Build

[Odeon]

Oh boy …
… that would be really nice

Weekly Dev Update: 2017 July 21st, 28th, August 4th - Slope Chisel, Square Chisel, and maybe Bevel Chisel and more!

[HalfSlope_Blocks_01] Something like this @Zina; That would be nice

We asked for them many times
May be one day, who knows

[Marrash]

While I’d love these shapes (they’re definitely the one that I most notice we don’t have while building), I’m not sure how they could be accomplished with chiselling as it currently works.

The existing chiselled blocks can only be one thing, based which corners are chiselled and which chisel is used. (I’m not sure exactly how the lattice chisels work, but I’m assuming the fact that they only have 6 ‘legs’ instead of 8 corners allows for the space to store thickness data).

I think if we wanted something like this, we’d need to be able to show how chiselling specific corners results in specific shapes.

[DKPuncherello]

See first post