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[buff0000n]

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[Kisutora]

Hi hi! Great work so far! :)

Biggest features/tweaks for me that I'd love to see that are not already in the To Do:

• Faster zoom in and out / less zoom level increments.
• Undo and Redo.
• Ability to rotate room while moving it at the same time.
• Ability to turn grid off.
• Tracker for prerequisite rooms for Halls, Labs etc.

Keyboard shortcuts!

• Rotate
• Duplicate
• Add new previously placed room

Add Room Menu

• Hover over categories to reveal room options instead of having to click.
• Should Observatory be in Interactive category?

I think making room selecting more visual would be beneficial.
Here's a quick mockup of what I'm thinking of:

[buff0000n]

@Kisutora Thanks for the feedback!

Faster zoom in and out / less zoom level increments.

Not sure what you mean, with my mouse wheel you can already go from min to max zoom in a fraction of a second.

Undo and Redo.

Undo/redo are always really difficult to implement, but I'll put them on the list.

Ability to rotate room while moving it at the same time.
Keyboard shortcuts!
Hover over categories to reveal room options instead of having to click.

My focus right now is making something that's mobile-friendly. I'm trying to avoid having so many keyboard shortcuts that you need an on-screen cheat sheet, or adding hover functionality that doesn't work on a touch screen.

Ability to turn grid off.

If this is so you can take a screenshot, that's covered by this todo:

Export as PNG

Tracker for prerequisite rooms for Halls, Labs etc.

Covered by todos:

Capacity/Energy tracking
Room count constraints, for certain rooms and overall

I think making room selecting more visual would be beneficial.

Covered by todo:

Icons?

Should Observatory be in Interactive category?

What's interactive in it? The arsenal?

[Kisutora]

Not sure what you mean, with my mouse wheel you can already go from min to max zoom in a fraction of a second.

This is what scrolling is for me.
Could be my mouse options I guess.

My focus right now is making something that's mobile-friendly. I'm trying to avoid having so many keyboard shortcuts that you need an on-screen cheat sheet, or adding hover functionality that doesn't work on a touch screen.

Fair enough, I respect that but I do wonder how many are going to design their dojo on mobile.
I'm not certainly going to but I'm just one person.

What's interactive in it? The arsenal?

Yes, the arsenal and navigation. :)

[buff0000n]

This is what scrolling is for me.

I see what's going on. Firefox does mousewheel events different from every other browser, because of course they do. Try it now.

I do wonder how many are going to design their dojo on mobile.

"Mobile" also includes things like tablets and iPads.

Yes, the arsenal and navigation. :)

I guess, but I almost never think of the Observatory as anything other than a place for decoration. Pretty much every fully decorated Observatory I've seen has covered up the navigation spots.

[yodaxep]

This is my clan, and obstacle and elbow have a bit of an incorrect collision, since it's all normal in the game. https://buff0000n.github.io/dojocad/?v=2,298,158,0&mz=BYRgNADJ0Q+gTgU2gWgCwA4awMbKmmtAEy47QgBsY4cA9vGCgMzhU1jO4Auq74pHLxbEm-TmSaUiKcfXIgQRcSFgAbXlHRtICZCKaYOcPFJmFj6umbDFqA2MFGyQzlY+ZiA7NVn2ajjLEaFruAOZqTMwQMnJ6UTE2tLAAJgCuCUTMog5CNn62unko0jTUoqTcwGK+7KImAB41NvWwEc0uFbrAAKxgRgU58dktukhgpSVEreMjIxXxpfO2uE0AnLXlATiMBX5QrcAAlkwYoa6FqsdiFp2XuABGTBujgk+yxFhThVzp+VQHIrIT5iC5DHBNc6iTyqOgAQxqOS2XBw71KRmhbUiBQxQOaaxyK1MBUoWCgcDCAGd8dRyfF2C8oKpxugsIyJDhyAVXGSilz+JRyXzmiACdhxgKhczkPwxUz6fYQfKWUYedAuCqsAD1fFWTQ5RIUilmsxmLSAnR3sRgpwzeqgA
And keep up to good work, you're doing great!
P.S. It's my first time using Github.

[buff0000n]

@yodaxep Yep, confirmed in my dojo. Looks like I need to shave 4m off the width of the Obstacle Course Architect room. Thanks for the report!

[buff0000n]

@yodaxep should be fixed now. Thanks!

[WildPenquin]

Hi!

Just my few suggestions are, mainly to facilitate collaboration:

• Annotation by:
• arbitrary text
• automatically by room (newbies don't know what a room is just by it's outline)
• Changing colors of a room (and text)

I've found color coding can be useful to plan priorities i.e. which parts should be build first. However, if one can choose from a large selection of colors (or any RGB value), it could mean anything the user wants ;-)

Thanks anyways for this planner, seems like it has all the most important features and is the most feature-complete planner out there - and also, source available, so others can contribute if they wish!

[buff0000n]

Thanks for the feedback @WildPenquin

• Annotation by:
• arbitrary text

Text is a lot harder to deal with consistently in a cross-browser way. It also opens a whole can of formatting worms around font, size, centering, color, also annoying to deal with cross-browser. It sounds like what you really want is Google Docs-style versioning and collaboration, and that's unfortunately way out of my league. I'm not saying never, but not any time soon.

• automatically by room (newbies don't know what a room is just by it's outline)

Did you know you can select a room and click on it again to see its name and stats?

• Changing colors of a room (and text)

Unfortunately, arbitrarily tinting a grayscale image to any color is surprisingly hard in HTML5/CSS. I think I have an idea, but it will be a while before I have the bandwidth to try it out.

[WildPenquin]

Did you know you can select a room and click on it again to see its name and stats?

Yes, though I'm not sure I knew while I made my comment, I may have found out only afterwards =)

I understand things can be a bit difficult technically (I'm familiar with programming only superficially, but still get the gist of it). They are just suggestions, anyways. Keep up the good work!

[fubaWoW]

hi there,
first at all -> very great work! :)

It would be nice if we could switch on/off to show/hide the floors above/below while in design time because "sometimes" it's very frustrating, especially if you label many rooms.

thanks in advance

[adrienne]

@buff0000n i have a suggestion wrt label colors. Currently they automatically pick up a variant of the room color and add a dark outline, and some combinations can be surprisingly hard to read. Having a separate full color picker for labels seems like overkill, but I think a couple really simple choices would improve things a lot.

First, if you could add a toggle that simply allowed a choice of white vs black outline, that would solve probably 80% of the issues right there.

Also, if you want to improve things more, have a simple selector that would allow you to choose from the following:

• the current behavior (variant of the room color)
• 100% white text
• 100% black text
• 50% grey text

[buff0000n]

@adrienne Could you give me some examples of things that are hard to read? Maybe in a dojocad link? I'll see if there's something I can do to automatically pick between black/white for the outline.

[buff0000n]

@adrienne Nevermind, played around and came up with a simple rule to flip to a while outline when the brightness slider is below 25%.

FYI: you already have the ability to put a different color label on top of a room by placing a separate Label object on top of it: https://buff0000n.github.io/dojocad/index.html?v=7,-8,-31,0&mz=BYRgNADJ1SIJwC4QQCyIKyoPoBsCGMRAbAMyIBMEEyA7BmAEQAy+ARgKa6NA

[adrienne]

Oh, i didn't realize there was a label object!

As for the outline -- you probably want to make the change happen at more like 35% brightness, not 25%, just fyi. This is above the threshold but getting hard to read (esp if i made the text smaller)