Heyo,
today and tomrrow in 8 hours at 18:00 UTC, @BIDP and I will do a little community mapping marathon where we all map some new cool maintenance rooms together! The idea is we’ll all make loads of random rooms and then @BIDP and I will sort through them later and make a PR for it, so you’ll only need to do the fun bit!
We’ll also be around making rooms ourselves so if you get stuck or need help just ask on Discord VC (text is fine!). Anyone who joins in will absolutely get credit, but more importantly, could have their room show up in the game!
Open StrongDMM and open the .dme file located in the repo you downloaded.
Then open any map of your preference through StrongDMM BeeStation-Hornet/_maps/map_files/.
Finally, create a new map using the DMM format of any size you wish (smaller variants are preferable) and get on creating the maintenance rooms of your dreams!
When you wish to export it, save the map file and send it to Floria or Ambrosia!
Important to know, there are currently 6 sizes of random maints that have a fixed orientation those are:
3x3, 5x3, 3x5, 5x4 10x5, and 10x10. You could make a custom size but it would need to me added to existing maps (no easy task) and you would also need lots of new maints that size, so it’s best to stick with these.
You’ll notice they have door in a certain position. those door locations are fixed unfortunately and cannot be changed so please keep them clear!.
Other then that, go wild. you can have anything, think it like brainstorming no maint is a bad idea haha.
Can any of you make maybe a pretty little garden for the biggest maints room size please? There’s something cozy about the comfy looking maints rooms that I think is really fun.
I hope some the crazier ones on here like the error code room are extremely rare or not added to be honest, they’re a bit much in terms of immersion breaking.
