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Sebastian Hemmann suggested Jordan Johnson commented

Walls and Pillars properties

Hi,

after working with Walls we found 3 points that seem to could be improved:

1. Double clicking, right click menu "Properties" and the "More Properties" Button in the Quick Properties doesn´t have any effect. Why are we offering this option?

2. We searched for ways to make Pillars "No Select" (as far as we figured out only the right click menu is possible) but it seems to be not possible to unselect this function any more (anywhere).

3. In connection with A* only the walls are added to the A* Navigator. If you increase the Pillars size respectively only want to build the Pillars you have to add them manually.

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Clair A commented

Hello @sebastian.hemmann,

I do agree with your point 2. Once all walls and pillars are built in a model, I don't want to move them accidentally.

Currently there is no convenient way to make all pillars "No Select". With all pillars highlighed in red I've tried the Toggle No Select button in the Edit Selected Objects panel but it does not work. I guess it's because by default pillars don't have a drawflags node. @Jordan Johnson would it be possible to correct this ?

In the meantime, @sebastian.hemmann you can use this script to make all pillars "No Select":

treenode Walls_surrogate = drawsurrogate(Model.find("Walls"));
int nr_pillars = Walls_surrogate.subnodes.length;
for(int index = 1; index <= nr_pillars; index++){
    Object Pillar = Walls_surrogate.subnodes[index];
    treenode drawflags_node = Pillar.find(">visual").subnodes.assert("drawflags");
    drawflags_node.dataType = DATATYPE_NUMBER;
    switch_noselect(Pillar, true);
}

And you have to hit reset after the 1st time you execute this script.

Later if you want to make all pillars selectable again, you can just switch true to false in the last line.

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Ralf Gruber avatar image Ralf Gruber ♦ commented ·

@sebastian.hemmann, @Clair A

I had a new prospect setting his pillars to "No Select" on purpose, but wanted to reverse that noticing he would have to move one of them. The only none-code way that I found working was to select the Pillar in the tree under Walls>visual/Drawsurrogate , click more visuals in the properties and then you can uncheck "No Select" again. But that only works for a single pillar, even if more are selected.

@Jordan Johnson: Bug or feature?

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Jordan Johnson avatar image Jordan Johnson ♦♦ Ralf Gruber ♦ commented ·

I'll add this issue to the dev list. It could definitely be improved.

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