Building construction placement UI

[Philip Taylor]

When the player chooses to build a building, they need some way to pick a location for it.

The implementation should be somewhat similar to the Atlas entity preview feature. Probable approach is: GuiInterface.js should provide some functions ShowEntityPreview(templateName, x, z, angle, player) and HideEntityPreview(). Those functions would construct a local entity with the preview|templateName magic template, and move it around, and delete it when it's hidden. Show would return a flag indicating if that's a valid build location (based on terrain, obstructions, etc). (Also it'd have to change the colour to indicate obstruction, and deal with FOW etc). The GUI input-handling scripts would just call those functions to show the previews, and then send the parameters to a 'construct' command when the player clicks.

[Philip Taylor]

Done in r7285, r7352, etc.

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Milestone Unclassified deleted