A New Base Editor: Sugestions

Hi folks.

There have been threads in the past where folks have asked for a whole new Base Editor.

To try to draw Dev interest, I guess we might want to state how we would like it function.

(Again)

My ideas are as follows;

Give us an empty squared grid, like we get now, but give us Wall placement control so we can build our own rooms. Whatever size, whatever door size we want. Have it where we have to specify the Function of the room for Item placement. (Tag the room "Control" to be able to place Control items, etc...) It would be nice to be able to click and drag sections of rooms, and "Tag" them to hold different items, or perform different Functions.

Give us elevation features on flooring sections that can be placed where we want them. Double sided. So that we can create thin floors at whatever elevation we want.

Give us Elevation Control of all Items. So that we can position them where we want them.

Give us Angle Control of Items, so that they don't rotate on 90 degrees.

Give us more control of the lighting. The Lighting Items should be adjustible, in lumens and color.

Give us active Water effects.

Please contribute anything you would like to see in a new Base Editor to this thread. I know we are beating the same drum we have beat for years but, hey...we gotta keep trying.

Note: I know all of my suggestions are going to take alot of Code changing, and re-programing. They have said that the Base Editor needed to be re-worked, so that is what this thread is about.

Thanks

Improvements would be very welcome to most, and I think we'll be heard at some point, but maybe not as soon as we all would like. Cosigned.

I want more stuff for bases, definatly. But the game isn't about base building, not remotly. It's a great feature, but I can see why they're leaving us base building people high and dry. There are much more important things in the game, and we're too small of a group to really matter.

There is good advertising potential in bases, though. And with more work on the editor, and possibly base features, the base community might not be "too small to matter". (I agree, we currently are.) As it is, I expect a lot of people see the fabulous things that can be done with bases, get all excited, and then give up on it when it turns out to be a really complicated process to make something that good.

Functional items we need:

-Tailor/facemaker thingie

-Blackmarket/Wentworth's terminal

- AE terminal (might not be possible with present base coding)

- Trainer

- Random (special radio?) mission contact terminal, possible replacement for the mission control terminals

- An vending item for the other inspiration types.

These four things could bring bases out of just being glorified decorations and storage bins and into a one stop place for heroes and villains alike.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

How about just giving us a standard 3D editor that allows us to place anything we want, wherever we want, with the option to make custom shapes and texture them with whatever's available?

That would solve all our problems right there. Sure it'd be more complex, but i'm pretty sure the base community would adapt.

An UNDO button. I can deal with the workarounds on everything else.

- Tailor/facemaker
-Blackmarket/Wentworth's terminal
- AE terminal

These three suggestions posted earlier are my favorite. I would love to have all three.

I want to see a NUDGE function instead of having all placement being mouse dependent. Just an X, Y and Z nudge tool in the form of clickable arrows that will move my selected item in any direction by one notch.

I also think that being able to GROUP items would be extremely helpful. To do this, they'd need to get rid of some of the stacking issues (more like get rid of the "cannot unstack" error).

I've done a lot of work at college with Power Point, where I got these ideas from. I believe they would be relatively simple to implement and prove very useful.

EDIT: Undo, as Fridgy says, would also be sweet. Even just being able to undo the last action (instead of keeping a whole history of editing that may cause issues with prestige updating) would be useful, and I can't see this causing any major problems.

Yeah, the Undo Button is something I've always wanted. It would be an immense improvement.

Now these are ideas that should have been done a long time ago.

1. Click and drag select all box.

1a. A Save Selection option. Save a creation for later use.

1b. Copy and Paste from one room to another OR drag and drop the selection.

2. Clear glass with no SG symbol.

3. A small wall so that we can stack to make a larger wall to the scale that we want it AND be able to actually put wall objects on it.

4. Make the wood bridges be able to be put in the middle of the room for crying out loud.

5. Stair case railing.

In the light (and soft shadows) of Going Rogue, there's still the question whether bases will take advantage of the new ultra GFX settings.

I'm building for a more realistic feeling and 1 thing that always gets into my way is how lighting works for bases.
There's no real shadows or shadow occlusion (e.g. place a floor torch in front of a pillar and the floor and wall behind the pillar get 100% light).
So if there's some sort of new shadow filter for Going Rogue GFX, I'd like to see that for bases as well.
If it's an extra render pass to *bake in shadows* as an extra layer or however it works, I'm fine with that, too.