Stencil & Stencil Lists

[Michael Käser]

Should not need further explaining than the title

It is/was the best command to create huge forests and landscapes.

Old commands:

Stencil:

• /b st Shows in-game help
• /b st [name] Makes a new stencil by selecting a cuboid with first two arrow right clicks
• /b st [fill|full|replace] [name] Selects the paste method for stencil and the stencil to be pasted

Stencil Lists:

• b sl [file] Right-click with the arrow, it pastes randomly one of the stencils defined in the file.

[Michael Käser]

Can you add the label "enhancement"?

[Michael Käser]

Needed for easy upgrade:

• Automatic conversion from old stencils and lists.

[Deamon]

Other things to consider:

• Storing stencils in the MCEdit schematic format and converting the old stencil format to scheamtics
• creating stencil lists ingame
• selecting a transformation to apply to the stencil when placing it in (rotating flipping) for both stencils and stencil lists

[Michael Käser]

MCEdit-Schematic File Format

Reference link to WorldEdit's git

Stencils

In generall wouldn't it be consequent to do the transformation as a mask / effect?
So also other masks & effects apply to the stencil?

Like a new transformation masks (parameters):

• Rotation (base rotation + optional random with amplitude)
• Flipping (direction)
• Offset (base offset + optional random with amplitude)

Inter-plugin compatibility

• Importing / Exporting stencils to WorldEdit.

Stencil Lists

• Ingame maintaining
  • Search for lists / stencils
  • Add, Remove stencils from lists.
  • Create, delete and clear lists.

[Deamon]

Yeah thats a good point, having the stencil brush work a lot like a shape (but not quite) might be good so that we can simply have the a rotation mask apply to the stencil. I'd need to modify the current way masks work to hand them a 'view' of the world rather than them looking at the world directly. Since we can then pass a view into a schematic to them in place of the world.

Interoperability with worldedit / other plugins which use schematics is moot since we would be changing away from the stencil format (its crap anyway) to using the schematic format by default.

[Michael Käser]

I did recently a lot with netty and before with world edit.

Why not building something like a brush pipeline?

E.g.:
(World+Position)-> Shape -> Shape -> Mask -> Mask -> Effect -> Effect -> (turning point, other direction out)

Each layer has the methods ingoing & outgoing of a modificatable work object and they pass it through the pipeline.
On their way through the pipeline they get modified, ignored, etc.

[Deamon]

That is essentially how it works right now see BrushChain.java