{"id":1120,"date":"2016-10-22T09:56:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diabolicalsuperscience.net\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2016-10-22T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:56:30","slug":"dss-tape-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/diabolicalsuperscience.net\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"DSS Tape Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DSS Tape Measure came about one day when I was bouncing around to prefab shops looking for either a new house or new building for my shop, and kept running into buildings that – believe it or not – didn’t have their dimensions available. Since my land at Orbitalis is a little on the irregularly shaped side I really needed to know if a building would fit before buying it. It got to the point where I was standing at the corners of the building, writing down the map coordinates and then doing the necessary math to get a rough idea of sizes.<\/p>\n

“Doing the necessary math” – Have you ever heard of something so monstrous?<\/p>\n

So I did what I always do when confronted with a problem and wrote a little script that let me measure the distance between two points that I fix my camera on and voila the DSS Tape Measure was born.<\/p>\n

Using the Tape Measure<\/h3>\n

As I mentioned the tape measure works by tracking your camera position, it’s pretty simple actually. Once you’re wearing it you should have a little yellow tape measure on your\u00a0HUD…\"tape-measure-intro\"<\/p>\n

So you’re all set to do some measuring. Let’s see how wide my deck is.\"tape-measure-deck\"<\/p>\n

We’ll start out by picking the right\u00a0corner of the deck as our starting spot.<\/p>\n

Press and hold the ALT key on your Windows, or the Option\u00a0on your Mac keyboard. The cursor should change into a little magnifying glass. Keep the Alt \/ Option key\u00a0down and pick the spot you want to focus on by simply clicking on it with your mouse. Your camera will re-center on that spot and you can release the ALT \/ Option key.<\/p>\n

Here’s everything I just said but with pictures!\"select-left\"<\/p>\n

Once you’ve got your spot picked out click on the Tape Measure HUD…<\/p>\n

\"tmh\"… To set that as your starting position. The HUD will let you know that the position is set…
\n\"start-point-set\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And you’re ready to pick the spot you’re going to measure to. In this case it’s the other end of the deck…\"right-side-full\"<\/p>\n

And you’re going to do the exact same thing. \u00a0Hold down the\u00a0ALT \/ Option key\u00a0on the computer keyboard\u00a0and\u00a0click on that spot with the mouse. The screen will re-center on that location…\u00a0\"right-side\"<\/p>\n

Now all you do is click on the Tape Measure HUD again and you’ll get your measurements.
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