Brick use reduction script.

[lordician]

Ooh i was thinking about the possibility of this after some gameplay at trecnh wars stuff.
Good idea! :D

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[Demian]

Just add a simple option to ignore evented bricks. So if you have a wall of 1x1 bricks and one of them is evented, the script will leave that brick as is and just join together the rest.

[johnnyboy]

Just add a simple option to ignore evented bricks. So if you have a wall of 1x1 bricks and one of them is evented, the script will leave that brick as is and just join together the rest.

^yes

[DrenDran]

I had a loving great idea to make this a lot easier to make, and a smaller script too...
Instead of say making this code over and over again for each brick combo to check for:

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if(%northsouth.dataBlock $= "brick1x4Data" && isrot(%brick) && isrot(%northsouth))
{
if(getword(%brick.position,1) > getword(%northsouth.position,1))
makebrick("brick1x6Data",addvec(%brick.position,1,-1),%brick.color,0,%brick.client);
else
makebrick("brick1x6Data",addvec(%brick.position,1,1),%brick.color,0,%brick.client);
%brick.delete();
%northsouth.delete();
}
if(%eastwest.dataBlock $= "brick1x4Data" && !isrot(%brick) && !isrot(%eastwest))
{
if(getword(%brick.position,0) > getword(%eastwest.position,0))
makebrick("brick1x6Data",addvec(%brick.position,0,-1),%brick.color,1,%brick.client);
else
makebrick("brick1x6Data",addvec(%brick.position,0,1),%brick.color,1,%brick.client);
%brick.delete();
%eastwest.delete();
}

I could simply loop though a list of things are replace certain feilds there with the correct values, and make a function to add things to the list easily.
The result is like this:

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addbrickreductioncheck_2dstr("brick1x2Data","brick1x8Data",2,"brick1x10Data");
addbrickreductioncheck_2dstr("brick1x2Data","brick1x6Data",1.5,"brick1x8Data");
addbrickreductioncheck_2dstr("brick1x2Data","brick1x4Data",1,"brick1x6Data");
addbrickreductioncheck_2dstr("brick1x2Data","brick1x2Data",0.5,"brick1x4Data");
addbrickreductioncheck_2dstr("brick1x3Data","brick1x3Data",0.75,"brick1x6Data");
addbrickreductioncheck_2dstr("brick1x4Data","brick1x4Data",1,"brick1x8Data");
addbrickreductioncheck_2dstr("brick1x6Data","brick1x6Data",1.5,"brick1x12Data");
addbrickreductioncheck_2dstr("brick1x8Data","brick1x8Data",2,"brick1x16Data");

I just made this whole process a hell of a lot easier, and the script a lot smaller.

Just add a simple option to ignore evented bricks. So if you have a wall of 1x1 bricks and one of them is evented, the script will leave that brick as is and just join together the rest.

Already done.

[BlockStar]

Dude your a life saver ive been needed one of these!

[Pentium]

You are awesome.

[Zloff]

I love you clanmaster

[DrenDran]

Gee, this thread is just great for my ego, anyway, I'm gonna go host this on my server to test it, and hopefully get some suggestions too.

[ShadowZero]

Simple er would be to add new options in the wrench menu,like:

Ignore Brick Reduction

or something.

[DrenDran]

Well, I've been testing it out, for example on the default save "sirrus milatary base" it reduces about 2500 bricks, and doesn't look too different after.
Should I release a beta here, today?

[Julius The 1st]

Yes!  :D

[captain blue]

Yes!  :D

[DrenDran]

I ran it on some of the default builds, and here is how many bricks were reduced:

Afghan - 195
Sirrus - 2424
Maze - 40
Festung - 1405
CTF - 240
Crysta - 2071
Arch - 132

[lordician]

Hmm, but now some lovey brick walls are now very flat walls. ;)

[ultimamax]

Hey, you should make it not touch a certain color of bricks that's very obscure, so you could color your relayed bricks that color as to avoid any mess-ups.