@Mile not all heroes wear capes some update mods.

@Mlie, thanks, you're doing a superhero's work :)

Made an update of this for RimWorld 1.1
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2015371021
Hope this helps anyone!

Would love an update to 1.1!

Are you planning to update to 1.1?

Would it be possible to add the ability to removed etched walls entierly with the smooth surface command, so that walls can be resmoothed if the user decides to change the architecture or layout of a base?

Do decorative walls give a boost to a room's beauty? If not, I think they should.

This is causing lag spikes for me every few seconds, regardless of load order. Not sure why. It was fine last time I played, a couple of months back.

the mod is fully broken, clicking smoothed stone walls tells me "must designate smoothed stone wall", i tried changing mod order which is perfectly sorted, im not clicking a modded surface its base game smoothed granite

Nevermind, got it fixed. I think I had the mods in an odd order, because other tools weren't showing up, either.

Hmm. The etching option seems to be dead for me. I suspect a mod conflict, but I have many mods. Anybody know of any mods which might interfere with this one working?

I always thought that making a graffiti mod that allows you to make spray paint colors from dyes from certain plants and getting an artistic pawn to color your walls with street art for decoration would be dope asf. It'd give the cities of over 30 pawns (which I like to make) more of a artsy and city feel to them.

@Oh God Spiders No, I'm not sure if it's the same mod you're referring to, but there is a 1.0 mod that does do that. I assume you probably already know by now, but other people reading this might like to know.

Any chance you might consider adding faux rock and smooth constructed walls? That is, the ability to make constructed walls look like either rough rock walls or smoothed walls? There was another mod that did the former, but it hasn't been updated for 1.0

Hey, I'm having the same issue mentioned by Cecil_FF4, where colonists not assigned to construction will decide to smooth walls

Twice in my current save, I've gotten a meteor made of smoothed basalt. Thing is, though, I don't actually *use* a mod that adds basalt in any form, nor do I even know what it's from, and mining the meteor out gives no resources. I had to get the ShowModDesignator mod just to find out what was adding it.

Apparently removing the patch lets it just show up anywhere now. xD

thank you for the update great call on this one

oh!good!!! thank you!

Hell yeah, you brought it back ^^

UPDATE:

- Removed patch previously required for smoothing NPS's basalt.

- Rewrote XML patches to improve load efficiency slightly.

Been loving your mods for some time, Rainbeau. Any chance of adding a crafting option for the exact opposite of this; to make crafted walls smooth instead of bricked?

Eugh - I wrote a bug report and musn't have actually posted it. Sorry! I has some frame drop / fps issues playing a relatively new colony, and narrowed it down to this mod. When disabled the issue went away completely. Let me know if there's any benefit of sending you the mod list I had enabled.

@Rainbeau Flambe: Fair enough. I'll mess with mod ordering and see if that helps. Thanks for your hard work, btw. :)

@Cecil: As no one else has reported any such trouble, it's most likely that the problem is the fault either of another mod or of a mod conflict. If it's a conflict involving this mod, and you can track down what mod this is conflicting *with*, I'll be happy to look into it.

My people are smoothing walls despite the work priority being set to prevent that. I believe this mod is what is causing the conflict on my save. They'll do the job even if the work is disabled.

Thank you very much for making that update! Just smoothed all those basalt walls.
Now my prisoners have an even more beautiful prison ;>

Okay, Thank you!

@Malminas: I can take a look when I have a chance and see how that mod handles the graphical change. Might or might not be easy to adapt.

Any chance of adding support to your mod to allow the walls to match those from "Marbled Marble"? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1531854973

MINOR UPDATE:

- Added fixes to allow basalt from "Nature's Pretty Sweet" to be smoothed and etched.

Thanks bunches hun ; * Now the great cave walls of the Rock Hole People can stand again, adorned with the etchings of a soul of a nation.

Ooh I see!
Thank you for the hint! I'll head over to the other mod's page and ask around there!

@Phoder: The vanilla wall smoothing mechanic depends upon natural stone walls having certain traits defined in their XML defs, and upon there being separate defs for natural and smoothed versions of the walls. If NPS didn't correctly update its natural wall defs in its upgrade from b18 to b19/1.0, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about it.

(Well, OK, technically, I could add patches and/or new defs in this mod as necessary to correct the oversights in that mod, but I'm not sure that's something I want to get into.)

So, my colony lies in an area with Basalt from "Nature's Pretty Sweet" (I believe Basalt wasn't included in the official Rimworld yet?)

From what I read in an older version of this mod, you were able to smooth Basalt walls, right?

Seems like official Rimworld doesn't support that yet.
Is it possible to add the ability for other mods' materials to be smoothed in your mod?

Thank you for this great mod and your work on this! :)

Lovely, thank you!

@Sneaky: It would be easy enough to add a new wall type, constructed of blocks but using the smooth version of the wall graphic. And on that note, it probably wouldn't hurt to add the ability to "resmooth" etched walls. I'll add it to my "to do" list.

Odd request, but could you please add the ability to smooth constructed walls? I rather like the look of the smooth walls for certain rooms, such as my hospital, so it'd be nice to be able to make them uniform.

UPDATE:

- Inside corners will no longer be "auto-smoothed," as while that feature is fine in vanilla, where smoothed walls come in one and only one flavor, it doesn't work so well in the context of the mod.

- Pawns can now smooth and/or etch inside corners themselves.

I think I have a mod that tweaks that functionality, in my recent play I've noticed (before installing this mod) that my pawns would smooth the inner tiles rather than them auto-smoothing as they did when 1.0 first came out. I'm just throwing a dart at a board here but it could possibly be Replace Stuff as that changes some of the rules of how pawns interact with walls, just a wild guess though.

(Continued from below....)

Unfortunately, something in the mod has indirectly affected the handling of inside corner tiles, such that they sometimes now "pretend" to be etched walls instead of smoothed walls.

I need to find the bit of code that handles that. I could just fix it so the inside corners always "pretend" to be smoothed walls, but more likely, I'll just override it completely, and then allow pawns to actually smooth/etch the inside corners, just as they could in earlier versions of the mod.

Hopefully, that all makes sense. :D

@Sixdd & Charon: Allow me to clarify a bit, as I think my original comment actually sort of obscured the issue.

Inside corners have always been problematic, as they can be seen, but pawns normally can't affect them. (A pawn can only work on a tile if at least one side is accessible, not if only a corner is accessible.)

In the original versions of this mod, that led to inside corners being ugly, since the walls were smoothed, but the corner wasn't. I eventually fixed that by allowing pawns to actually smooth inside corner tiles just as they could regular wall tiles.

Tynan, when he added smoothing to vanilla, opted to deal with the issue differently. Inside corner tiles effectively "pretend" to be smoothed, if the tiles on either side of them are smoothed. This allows inside corners of smoothed stone rooms to look nice.

@Laranos Tyr: I'm aware of the benefits of having the walls add extra beauty, and in fact that's how the mod worked in earlier incarnations. Unfortunately, the wall smoothing in vanilla is *very* different from the wall smoothing in earlier versions of the mod, and the etching had to be rewritten from scratch to accommodate it, and given the way things are handled now, I haven't yet figured out how to actually add the beauty values. It's on my "to do" list, though honestly, it's not a very high priority right now.

@Sixdd & Charon: I've noticed that as well, but have no idea how to correct it, as it appears to be a bug in how vanilla is displaying the tiles. (The mod doesn't in any way affect that "inside corner" tile, and in fact, if you mine next to it, you'll see that despite the inaccurate display, it *is* in fact still natural unsmoothed stone.)

I belive if it addend extra beauty it would make sens to use it for lots of people.

It could come at cost of extra time spend on eatching the wall.

Extra beauty could also depend on type of design and artist lev.

This would bring something significant and beautiful into the game.

I've experienced the same issue as Sixdd

Ran into an odd issue, I just subscribed today and noticed that where smoothed walls join in a 3 or 4 way join the wall turns to etched wall rather than smoothed wall. No errors appear in the console.

Thanks so much for this

I like that it doesn't add extra beauty because that could easily make it overpowered

whoo! and the mod is back!

@Xorkers: If changing mod order made a difference, it's almost certainly a mod conflict. But until/unless you can tell me *which* mod it conflicted with, I really can't do anything about tracking down or fixing the actual problem.

@Silver Knight: At the moment, no; the etched walls have the same beauty as smoothed walls, and decorated walls are simple "eye candy." I haven't figured out yet how to change the beauty value in wall defs that are dynamically created, as opposed to actually being defined in XML files.

Discovered a bug. I couldn't etch into stone walls, even if they were already smoothed out. Moving the mod higher up the load order fixed this. I'm not sure if it was caused by another mod or not but I thought I'd say something regardless.