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OpenTTD - http://www.openttd.org/ - with additional patches
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[Suggestion] Picker/eyedropper tool #498

Closed EmperorJake closed 1 year ago

EmperorJake commented 1 year ago

Many other building games have a picker tool, that lets you instantly select any object on the map and immediately open the tool to build that object. Factorio is a good example of this, as well as Cities Skylines (via a mod) and Augustus (open source reimplementation of Caesar III)

A similar tool for OpenTTD would be especially beneficial in GRF-heavy games with lots of objects and tracktypes buried in menus. It would greatly streamline the building process.

Ideally the tool would have a hotkey such as R (easy to reach and currently it does nothing) which opens a tool similar to the query tool. Then you click on anything on the map, and it instantly opens the relevant building menu with that item selected.

JGRennison commented 1 year ago

61e9c30 ought to cover this use case?

EmperorJake commented 1 year ago

Yesssss, this works so well, thanks very much :)