Names for deco blocks and what to add

[spacek531]

Dirt proposed combining base blocks and deco blocks under the same namespace 'blocks,' it means that there must be additional distinction between a base block and deco block.

I would like to hammer out the names of the various shapes here.

Dirt proposed that for every material, there would be full tile and quarter tile square, diagonal, and inside and outside round pieces, with the prefix full or quarter and the suffix round or diag (square is no suffix).

Question: should square blocks receive a suffix or be suffix-less?

Question: are there any other base block shapes or sizes that should be added per-material?

I proposed that for every material, there would be quarter tile deco blocks of 2px, 4px, and 8px thicknesses in side, inside corner, and outside corner varieties (outside corners would be square which align with previous naming conventions).

Question: are there any other deco block shapes or sizes that should be added per-material?

Question: is there such thing as full tile deco blocks that would necessitate specifying that these deco blocks are quarter tile?

I propose that it would be useful to use a prefix in the shape field to keep the deco blocks grouped together alphabetically ("deco"). For suffix, Tolsimir proposed 'wall' for the regular shape, and I propose corner in and corner out for the other two shapes.

If scenery is displayed alphabetically in the scenery tab this will have issues, but I believe they are not displayed alphabetically - this is something to verify.

[spacek531]

Here are my answers to the questions:

• Yes, add a suffix

• Arches. Slopes and reverse slopes. Half-unit variants both top and bottom.

• Slopes versions, Rounded outside corner. Triangular outside corner. Diagonal versions of 2px exist, there is one material that has 4px diag but it is offset.

• I do not know

[dr-dirt]

• Suffix is useful, I'm on board with that. So we'd have 'full_square' 'full_diagonal' 'quarter_square' etc.
• Those you've mentioned, but I question the utility of a half-unit aligned at the top of the tile; also whether those would be considered base blocks or deco is unclear (might be arbitrary/meaningless)
• The arched version of the 1/8 blocks should be included here
• I'm not sure I understand, there is a weird object here: https://www.nedesigns.com/rct2-object/2631/xxdeco12/ that might fit that description

In terms of naming: perhaps it would fall into full, quarter, half_quarter, wall_thick, and wall_thin for those proposed?

[spacek531]

For the last question, I realize it is somewhat ambiguous. I meant is there fulltile scenery that matches the shape or utility of quarter tile deco blocks? It seems likely no because walls can occupy that slot.