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Author Topic: DF Designator - A fortress design tool  (Read 40331 times)

Kali

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DF Designator - A fortress design tool
« on: June 27, 2011, 12:04:33 pm »
DF Designator is a tool to create a fortresses from "blueprint" image files and some support for Quickfort csv files. It supports many of the actions required during DF construction.

It has an advanced gui to manages the different blueprints, create plans that span multiple z-levels and assign hotkeys for easy access.

Download it and open one of the examples to give it a try.



MORE INFORMATION
    http://wina2.ugent.be/~karel/userguide.pdf

DOWNLOAD
    http://wina2.ugent.be/~karel/DF Designator (windows).zip
    http://wina2.ugent.be/~karel/DF Designator (linux32).tar.bz2
    http://wina2.ugent.be/~karel/DF Designator (linux64).tar.bz2
    http://wina2.ugent.be/~karel/DF Designator (OS X).zip
    http://wina2.ugent.be/~karel/DF Designator (source all platforms).zip

You need java to run DF designator. If it complains java is missing. download it at http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp.

DF Designator is developed in java and is platform independent. To create the gui however, I've used QT jambi which is not. I could include the libraries for all platform and for the all platform sources I've just done that, but they are rather large.

FEATURES
    Easy gui
    Multi-Z-level designs
    Some support for Quickfort csv file
    Multi platform (window/linux/mac os X)
    Open source

THANKS
    zwei for the initial codebase
    Tiny_Puppy_Smasher for some of ideas of DF Architect
    joelpt Some of the concepts are shamelessly stolen from Quickfort
    DF team



Comments, bug reports, feature requests, patches, blueprints and other are welcome.

Ontrew posted a video tutorial here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFUWBXn9n8I if you want to see it in action.
   

« Last Edit: January 10, 2013, 04:31:35 am by Kali »
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Re: DF Designator
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2011, 12:42:15 pm »
Im still experimenting with this a bit but....

...very nice!

Incidentally...is this an AWT Robot?  Maybe i'll take a look at that source link :)
« Last Edit: June 27, 2011, 12:44:55 pm by celem »
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Re: DF Designator
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2011, 06:32:35 pm »
Looks great, and useful too. Unfortunately I can attest that the mac version does not work:

Console Output
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Spec Sheet:
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That's about all I can think of, it's too bad this isn't working. No good designators exist for Macs, and quickfort macros don't let me build.
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Re: DF Designator
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2011, 07:10:11 pm »
NO_THOUGHT, did you use the gui.sh script to start it ?

if you want to start it without, you have to give the command:

java -cp gui.jar:./jars/* cz.zweistein.df.designator.GUI.RunGUI
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Re: DF Designator
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2011, 12:01:49 am »
In fact I was simply clicking the gui.jar!
However, I got a different error this time (same error if I try without using the script)
Error (from terminal):
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Kali

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Re: DF Designator
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2011, 07:48:59 am »
Thank you for playing guinea pig NO_THOUGHT.

Seems like a problem in loading the Qt jambi library, not immidiately something I can fix.

I've tried increasing the jambi version to 4.7.0-beta1, this version seems to work with the linux version, perhaps they fixed this issue with the mac version.

Can you redownload the mac version and give it a spin ?
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Re: DF Designator
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2011, 10:11:27 am »
No problem, I am willing to take the time to get this up and running.
New error (again, no difference between script/no script):
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Re: DF Designator
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2011, 10:48:29 am »
Can you try

java -d32 -cp gui.jar:./jars/* cz.zweistein.df.designator.GUI.RunGUI

or

java -XstartOnFirstThread -d32 -cp gui.jar:./jars/* cz.zweistein.df.designator.GUI.RunGUI
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Re: DF Designator - A fortress design tool
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2011, 11:41:24 am »
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Re: DF Designator - A fortress design tool
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2011, 04:45:08 pm »
Excellent
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Re: DF Designator - A fortress design tool
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2011, 10:02:24 am »
After using it a little myself, I noticed some weaknesses/bugs.

Some tweaks:
    - Now remembers the last directory you accessed something.
    - Now remembers the current session.
    - Pressing PAUSE (to interrupt current designation) is no longer likely to crash the application.
    - Spaces in filenames when saving your current collection of blueprints are now supported (did break the file format).
    - Proper support for keyboard modifiers in shortcuts alt/ctrl/meta/shift or any combination thereof.
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Re: DF Designator - A fortress design tool
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2011, 07:28:35 pm »
I seem to be getting this in my Terminal window when I try to open the start.sh file;

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I have whatever Java comes packaged with OSX (10.6.8) and it's up to date with Apple Update.
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Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5
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Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1024 MB

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Re: DF Designator - A fortress design tool
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2011, 06:57:21 am »
Can you try chaninging the line

java -XstartOnFirstThread -d32 -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -cp gui.jar:.:./jars/* cz.zweistein.df.designator.GUI.RunGUI

int start.sh into

java -XstartOnFirstThread -d32 -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -cp .:./jars/* cz.zweistein.df.designator.GUI.RunGUI

Technically gui.jar isn't there in the root any more, linux's java version doesn't make a fuss but perhaps the OSX version does.

Otherwise Any suggestions ? That class is in the file jars/gui.jar, it should find it. I have no mac to test it on.
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Re: DF Designator - A fortress design tool
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2011, 01:26:54 pm »
Quote from: Demosthien on October 24, 2011, 07:28:35 pm
I seem to be getting this in my Terminal window when I try to open the start.sh file;

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I have whatever Java comes packaged with OSX (10.6.8) and it's up to date with Apple Update.
I'm getting this exact error with the latest version of DF Designator that already has the changed lines you suggested. I'm running a 10.7.2 Lion with the most updated Java available through Software update. Should I just download the all libraries version and try that? Or do you have another suggestion?
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Re: DF Designator - A fortress design tool
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2011, 04:11:33 am »
The only thing I can still think of is trying to spell out all jar files explicitly. In start.sh, try changing

java -XstartOnFirstThread -d32 -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -cp .:./jars/* cz.zweistein.df.designator.GUI.RunGUI

to

java -XstartOnFirstThread -d32 -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -cp .:jars/cloning-1.7.4.jar:jars/qtjambi-macosx-gcc-4.6.3.jar:jars/gui.jar:jars/objenesis-1.2.jar:jars/qtjambi-util-4.6.3.jar:jars/jkeymaster-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:jars/qtjambi-4.6.3.jar:jars/lib/jna-3.2.7.jar cz.zweistein.df.designator.GUI.RunGUI
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