Goonhub
12-02-2012, 08:10 AM
Mind if I offer some critique?
Looking at the layout of that map, it doesn't feel like a station. The hallways are far too long, wide and winding, job areas are too spread out from each other, and there aren't really many structural decisions that read as "this is a thing in space" other than the obvious things like the shuttle bay. It honestly feels more like a DOOM map or a sprawling surface facility to me.
Do you know about the select-drag function in Dreammaker? At the bottom of the object instance panel, look for "add", "fill", "select". Drag selection boxes around rooms and then you can drag the whole thing around as a chunk. If you already know about that, rad, it took me quite awhile to find it and I've heard a lot of other folks miss it too.
Building up all the rooms the first time is the tedious part, once you've got them built it doesn't take too long to tear them all off to the side and start rearranging them in blocks. You can also use that to copy the entire z-level to a new blank level, rearrange the hell out of that one, then compare back and forth between the two versions with one click.
Looking at the layout of that map, it doesn't feel like a station. The hallways are far too long, wide and winding, job areas are too spread out from each other, and there aren't really many structural decisions that read as "this is a thing in space" other than the obvious things like the shuttle bay. It honestly feels more like a DOOM map or a sprawling surface facility to me.
Do you know about the select-drag function in Dreammaker? At the bottom of the object instance panel, look for "add", "fill", "select". Drag selection boxes around rooms and then you can drag the whole thing around as a chunk. If you already know about that, rad, it took me quite awhile to find it and I've heard a lot of other folks miss it too.
Building up all the rooms the first time is the tedious part, once you've got them built it doesn't take too long to tear them all off to the side and start rearranging them in blocks. You can also use that to copy the entire z-level to a new blank level, rearrange the hell out of that one, then compare back and forth between the two versions with one click.