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Guideline Tool #887
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While the Grid tool (G or shift+G) is useful for aligning things on a small scale, there is no such tool for larger-scale alignment. Thus, I propose a "guideline" tool that draws a specified number of equally-spaced lines on the screen for this purpose.
I've created this Lua script that implements this feature roughly as I envisioned it:
The only major problem with this implementation is that it doesn't interact properly with the zoom window and I'd rather not make a convoluted workaround to get it to.
I used this implementation to create a display in one of my saves with several rectangles arranged like this:
I've left the gridlines shown in this image. It may also be useful for artists - see the rule of thirds - and there are likely other potential uses I haven't been able to think of yet.
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