RWG - Multiple Districts in Township's outskirt_district Property

[zztong]

Currently, you can have one District identified in a Settlement's "outskirt_district" property:

<property name="outskirt_district" value="rural"/>




And, presently, townships of type "city" all come with rural Tiles that wrap around the outside. This can be pretty repetitive.

I've considered making a "bigcity" township with the outskirts being residential.

Then it occurred to me it would be cool if you could list more than one District in the "outskirt_district" property. (This is the suggestion. Allow this...)

<property name="outskirt_district" value="rural,residential"/>




Then, when RWG is generating the outskirts of a settlement, for each Tile to be placed it would first randomize a selection from the outskirts_district List, then determine which Tile from that Distict to use. In this way, the outter ring of Tiles for a city could be a mixture of both Rural and Residential Tiles.

BTW, I tried listing two. It results in a KeyNotFoundException, which makes sense. It is probably looking for a district named "rural,residential".

Another thing I tried was a District with this:

<property name="poi_required_tags_all" value="rural,residential"/>




The idea being that maybe the District would accept POIs of either tag. That attempt resulted in a NullReferenceException.

 

[Kinyajuu]

Never thought of this use case. Consider it done for A21.

 

if(outskirtDistrict.Contains(",")) {
	string[] districts = outskirtDistrict.Split(',');
	outskirtDistrict = districts[Rand.Instance.Range(0,districts.Length)];
}

 

[n2n1]

@Kinyajuu



Why did you stop binding prefabs to the type of biome?

 

[zztong]

Never thought of this use case. Consider it done for A21.

 

if(outskirtDistrict.Contains(",")) {
string[] districts = outskirtDistrict.Split(',');
outskirtDistrict = districts[Rand.Instance.Range(0,districts.Length)];
}

So would it select one District from the list to be the outskirt for the entire city or is this code run on a Tile by Tile basis?