Designator Shapes

Short description: More shapes. Custom polygons, parallel lines, rounded rectangles, grids, flood fill, and undo/redo. Use a custom palette or add shapes to vanilla drawing.

Long description: Adds a new shape palette for building, mining, zoning, and other designation tools.

SHAPES

• Lines: diagonal, freeform, L-shaped corners, and parallel lines
• Rectangles and rounded rectangles
• Grids, inverse grids, and checkerboards
• Ellipses, circles, quarter arcs, and semicircles
• Pentagons, hexagons, and octagons
• Midpoint circles, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons
• Custom polygons
• Sun lamp and orbital trade beacon coverage stamps

Many shapes have outline and filled versions. See the Shape Dictionary in Mod Settings for individual descriptions.

TO USE Select a task (build, mine, zone, etc.), choose a shape, then click or drag. A "+" opens a submenu; "-" goes back. Drag the palette to move it.

Enable shape rotation in Mod Settings to rotate supported shapes. F, or your configured corner-fill key, toggles corner filling. Hold RimWorld's "force square dimensions" key (Ctrl by default) for equal width and height on supported drag shapes.

Click the small "+" beside input values to edit them; "-" returns to the readout.

DRAWING THE LESS OBVIOUS SHAPES

• Ordinary shapes: drag between opposite corners of their bounds. Outline selects the edge; filled includes the interior.
• Midpoint shapes: start at the center and drag outward. The larger horizontal or vertical distance sets the radius.
• Fixed rectangles/ellipses: enter W/H for the whole shape, then click its center.
• Freeform lines: hold the mouse button and draw like a pen.
• L corners: drag bounds. The normal tool draws the left/bottom sides; Opposite draws top/right. Rotate for other corners. Orientation follows the bounds, not which end you clicked first.
• Arcs: drag bounds and rotate as needed. Quarter arcs default around the lower-left corner; semicircles arch above the bottom edge. Square bounds give a circular quarter arc; half-circle bounds should be roughly twice as wide as tall. Other proportions make ellipse arcs.
• Grids: W/H sets spacing between grid lines, not block size. At thickness 1, spacing 3 leaves two empty cells between lines. Inverse grids select the blocks between channels. Patterns anchor to your first click.
• Checkerboards: W/H sets each tile's size. Choose whether the first clicked cell is selected or skipped; the pattern anchors there in every drag direction.
• Parallel lines: Thickness selects that many rows/columns, then Skip leaves that many empty. The longer drag axis sets direction; square drags retain the last direction. Rotate to swap. Anchored to your first click; Skip can be zero.
• Rounded rectangles: set Radius, then drag. Radius is limited to fit the bounds; zero gives square corners.
• Coverage stamps: click the center to apply your active task to a sun lamp/beacon's coverage area or boundary. Thickness 1 matches normal coverage.
• Custom polygons: click each corner, then Enter or click the first corner to finish. Backspace removes a corner; Escape/right-click cancels while retaining the tool. Nothing is designated until finished. Concave polygons work; use at least three corners that aren't all on one straight line.
• Flood fill: click a connected region, such as a room. Clicking wall/rock targets connected cells of that type. The active task determines eligible cells; boundaries, configured barriers, and the cell limit stop the fill.

CUSTOMIZE THE VANILLA DRAWING PALETTE Prefer RimWorld's default controls?

1. Open Mod Settings → Designator Shapes → Shape Dictionary.
2. Choose a shape and check "Include in vanilla palette".
3. Collapse the Designator Shapes palette to use vanilla drawing.

Changes apply immediately; uncheck to remove this mod's entry. Outline, filled, and midpoint versions are separate choices. Built-in shapes remain available; tools with inputs show controls beside the vanilla controls.

CONTROLS AND SETTINGS Undo/redo works while paused: Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y by default.

Mod Settings also lets you remember shapes per designation tool, assign Ctrl+Alt shape shortcuts and a menu-toggle shortcut, bind Previous shape (unbound by default), cancel strokes while retaining the tool, and adjust palette size, position, and navigation. The Alt-key toggle is off by default.

Choose whether selection bounds follow the mouse or the drawn shape, or add a button to switch between them.

Flood fill has configurable barriers and optional confirmation before destructive actions. You can block spreading into fog or unrevealed natural rock, including concealed ore; this restriction is off by default.

MENU LAYOUT

• Lines: freeform, L corners, parallel lines
• Rectangles: grids, inverse grids, checkerboards, fixed-size and rounded rectangles
• Ellipses: circles, fixed-size ellipses, arcs
• More Shapes: pentagons, hexagons, octagons, custom polygons; regular polygon menus include midpoint versions

ROTATION COMPATIBILITY For RimFactory conveyors, SOS2 corners, or objects with their own rotation: shapes without rotation pass input through. Disable shape rotation in Mod Settings to always rotate objects, or rebind shape rotation for separate controls.

WANT INDIVIDUAL TOOLS? Standalone mods for vanilla drawing, without Designator Shapes. Don't enable them alongside this mod.

Grids: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3819995093 Freeform Lines: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3819995485 Trade Beacon: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3533891331 Sun Lamp: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3533863758 Flood Fill: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3534423645 Midpoint Circles: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3533973266 Hexagons: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3538863086

Original art by Halno. Freeform line by Jacbo. Chinese translation by 祂. Space fix by Lis