Building Schematics

[AngleWyrm]

One of the features of Colonies is buildings. They should be read into the game from files, and also it would be good to have a way of writing player constructions out to files.

The most well-developed file structure available is Schematica.

Goal of early implementation will be to read a schematica file and create the represented content in-game.

[Jackerty]

Is this for builder or saving the game in general?

[AngleWyrm]

This is for the Builder to construct structures within the world. The first working version will do a replacement of a cube of blocks within the player world with the contents of a schematic file.

[riking]

I just want to point out here: Schematica is, primarily, an in-game schematic viewer. Basically, the rendering is already done for you, you just need to include it as a library and call the code in a different way than the mod does.

[Lunatrius]

As riking said. You should be able to include everything as it is, the only thing you'll have to take care of is the Schematica class, the main entry point.