This is a simple utility that allows you to quickly design rooms for Dwarf Fortress within a GUI.
The designs can then be imported into quickfort to translate them into orders for your dwarves...
Movement :
- To move the cursor, use either the numpad or the directional keys
- With
<Shift>depressed, the cursor moves ten tiles at a time, DF like - To move up and down the Z levels, use
<PageUp>and<PageDown>or the numpad<+>and<-> - The
<Insert>and<Delete>key dive you a peek at the levels above and below when pressed - If you prefer, you can use the ghost (
<Shift-G>) command to display a ghost image of the above and below levels - To begin an action, press the
<Enter>key
The other commands are all listed on the right.
The painted zone depends on the selection mode :
<Shift+R>: full rectangles<Shift+C>: one tile width rectangle<Shift+E>: ellipses (the center will appear)<Shift+O>: one tile at a time
There are four main modes of operation : dig, items, stockpiles and adjust modes. To switch between them, use <Shift+M>
and <Shift-N>.
In dig mode, it is possible to carve through rock (<d>), channel (<h>) or rebuild walls (<w>), carve stairs (<j>, <i>,
<u>) or ramps (<m>). There is also the option decorate rooms and transform walls or ground into dirt (<t>), rough rock
(<g>), or smooth (<s>) and engrave (<e>) them.
The items mode is used to place diverse items on the map.
<Ctrl-C> enters copy mode, <Ctrl-X> enters cut mode, <Ctrl-V> pastes.
<Shift-H> toggles a crosshair centered on the cursor.
<Shift-X> places the center, used by quickfort to determine the starting point of the design.
<Ctrl-S> is used to save a template file (in the form of a few .csv files). <Ctrl-L> is used to load a template,
either from a multi-layer quickfort file or a single layer .csv file.
<Ctrl-H> shows the help box.
<Ctrl-Q> quits.
<Ctrl-A> shows the about box, with licensing terms.
When first started, the software creates a "dwarfmockup.conf" file with the default config, and a "blueprints" directory to store blueprints files.
The Avira anti-virus program seems to believe that DwarfMockup.exe is infected with a trojan (TR/Dropper.Gen7). This is a false positive.
I believe it's caused by the OCRA system of embedding a ruby interpreter in one big exe file.
If you do not trust this file, you can always download the whole ruby source and execute with a ruby interpreter.
Dwarf Mockup is written and maintained by Frédéric Senault `[email protected].
This program is written in ruby : http://www.ruby-lang.org It uses the gosu library for the interface : http://www.libgosu.org It repacks a version of ImageMagick, which is (c) 1999-2014 ImageMagick Studio LLC : http://www.imagemagick.org It is bundled for windows with the OCRA library : https://github.com/larsch/ocra
The graphics in the software are taken from the Mayday Graphics Pack found at : http://goblinart.pl/vg-eng/df.php It includes work of the following people : Mike Mayday, Tocky, Sphr, Herrbdog, Thrin, Bane18, NW_Kohaku, Kafine, Phoebus, RantingRodent, Lemunde, Ironhand, Wormslayer.
QuickFort can be found at : http://www.joelpt.net/quickfort/ Dwarf Fortress can be freely downloaded at : http://bay12games.com/dwarves
This software is licensed under the BSD license ; see the in-software about box or the LICENSE file for the gory details.