Cosmographer Ships- Is there another way to copy the hull layout to other decks?
All,
Sorry to ask another inane question, but is there an easier way to make the hull appear on ALL levels of a ship plan without cutting and pasting it to each deck? I've been doing that method for some time, but with larger ships it becomes more of a chore than it seems to be worth.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you and have a great weekend.
Sorry to ask another inane question, but is there an easier way to make the hull appear on ALL levels of a ship plan without cutting and pasting it to each deck? I've been doing that method for some time, but with larger ships it becomes more of a chore than it seems to be worth.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you and have a great weekend.
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create a basic layout, save as hull01
then to make copies, I save as hull02, hull03, hull04, etc.
To work on them, I then load one and save as hull01_001, do some work on it, then save as hull01_002, etc. To ork on deck two, I load huill02, and save as hull02_001, etc.
That way all decks start out looking identical, then I modify them.
This is the same basic way I make dungeon levels I want to line up as they go down into the depths.
Thank you for the information. I'll try that on my next ship layout.
The files are completely separate drawings then? So you dont use the "decks" option for the drawing at all, but make completely separate files?
Just took a look, since i have Cosmo 3.
It looks like "decks" are still in Cosmo 3, but they added by the option to "Enable Multiple Levels". It looks like you just type in a number and it adds that many "Levels/Decks" to your drawing. You can add "Sub Levels" as well. The Levels then can have a naming scheme attached to them, such as "Deck", or "Dungeon", or the American, British or German terminology.
The thing that really got me is that there is an option to "Add Hull Drawing" which apparently doesnt carry over from one "Level/Deck" to another. It does create a "Hull" level sheet, but it seems completely pointless, since it doesn't show up anywhere else. I must be missing some nuance that escapes me. Not really sure what it does or why it is there, if i can't show it as a background on each of the decks.
Don't really get the "Sub Level" thing either, but that is for another post :-)
Back to your earlier idea, i have been trying that and i actually find your method a LOT simpler than my sloppy copy/ paste version. Thank you!
You can use the commands FLOORPLANCOPY and FLOORPLANADD to add stuff across multiple drawings and orgnaize your deckplan list.
Thank you for the tip. I'll try that on my next run through.
I am interested in what changed to make the "decks/ levels" option became kind of an unused function?