Guide to mapping: Difference between revisions

'''Airlock Lock Helper''' "/obj/effect/mapping_helpers/airlock/locked" - Used to bolt a door at the start of the round.<br>

'''Airlock Unrestricted Side Helper''' "/obj/effect/mapping_helpers/airlock/unres" - Used to remove access restrictions when using the door from one side. The side the arrow faces '''away from''' is the side with no restrictions. See the cloning airlock on boxstation as an example.

===Randomized Templates===

This short guide will teach you to make a template for YogStation.dmm. It will be assuming you are making two cryo rooms for Medbay.

===Shuttles===

There are 3 types of shuttle dock:

*Transit - shuttle as it moves

*Mobile - the place with the actual shuttle

The other variables of note is traveldir, which defines if the shuttle rotates on transit and its angle in degrees (imagine the shuttle is inside a circle, if you want the shuttle going right to left set it to 270 degrees).

dwidth/dheight is the offset of the docking_port obj from the (0,0) bounding box corner. If dir = 1 (north), 0,0 is the bottom left corner. This changes for each direction, for example when dir = 2 it's the upper right corner. So dwidth and dheight identify where the bounding box starts relative to the docking port obj, whereas width and height determine the actual width and height of the bounding box.

===APC===

Each new room needs at least one, this will provide all the power for the room. Any room that is very equipment heavy may need another APC to split the load and prevent early black outs. For each APC make sure the "name" var has an appropriate name (such as Clerk Office APC), the "dir" var is the appropriate direction (see the previous image on what it should be), the "pixel_x" and "pixel_y" vars are corrected, and the "areastring" var is the same as the area it is providing power for.

Make sure the wires lead from the main power grid to each powered APC. If any equipment in your new area requires a wire under it then line it up, connected to the main power grid, and under the machinery. Wires are also helpful when making electrical grills (just dot wire under a grill), make sure the wires touch the main power grid (or they won't shock people). Wiring on the maps are similar to wiring in-game, so if you play [[Engineering]] roles then this shouldn't be a problem.

[[File:MappingGuide2.png|thumb|left|200px|CMO Disposals.]]Most, if not all, rooms should have a disposals unit in them. The disposals unit pictured left is an example of what they should look like; "/obj/machinery/disposal/bin" with "/obj/structure/disposalpipe/trunk" underneath it. Then simply connect disposals pipes to it just like you would pipes.

===Access===

[[File:DoorAccessImage1.png|thumb|300px]]Access to doors is handled by req_access values. There are four when editing a door - req_access, req_access_txt, req_one_access, and req_one_access_txt. The ones we're concerned with are '''req_access_txt''' and '''req_one_access_txt'''.  

* Debug tab, Debug verbs - enable, Mapping tab, Camera Report/Check Plumbing/Check Power/Test Areas. These will provide you with different checks.

'''If all your checks pass, then [[Map Merger|map merge]] and [[Setting up git|PR]] your change.'''

===Final Requirements===

''This requirement assumes you have made a completely new map. If not, then ignore it and move on to map merger.''

To fix this problem you need to close dream maker (save the project first, obviously). Open your map (.dmm) file in a text editor, such as notepad or notepad++. Search (ctrl+f) through the file for step_x and step_y and remove any reference to it. Once no more instances of step_x or step_y are found in the file, save it and open it in dream maker once again. Compile the code and movement should work fine once more. Ask on our [{{Constant/Discordurl}} discord] if you need any extra help.

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