Discussion: Wire contact apon placement placement

Hmmmmmm...... better wire planning? idk.

The problem with prepainted wire is what do you do when you need red wire but all you have is yellow wire? Or what if you want unpainted wire and don't have the resources to make it? What about crafting things that require wire? You can't mix and match different kinds of materials with our current crafting system, even though they serve the same purpose. We would need a bunch of different craft recipes that make the same thing just to allow for colored cables in your inventory.

I think the current system is just fine. It sounds like you aren't planning your wiring too well.

Wait ... Can't you place one wire ---> paint it ----> place the other cable?

How about designating one color that cant connect to anything? Even normal cables.

Quote from Alblaka

If anyone comes up with a good alternative idea, we could solve this.

Automatic coloring?
If you place a cable to a side of another cable, that has for example red color, then the placed cable will have red color too.
Simple and effective. In the source code this will be two or three lines of code. Or more if you wants to test if the player has a painter with right color and damaging the painter after placing the cable.

I've got a better idea. Allow PAINTER to place cables! Only the cables that you have in the "quickbar", so you can still choose the type of cable.

Quote from Nargon

Automatic coloring?
If you place a cable to a side of another cable, that has for example red color, then the placed cable will have red color too.
Simple and effective. In the source code this will be two or three lines of code. Or more if you wants to test if the player has a painter with right color and damaging the painter after placing the cable.

and then you place a cable between a red and a blue cable *aaaaahhh!*

Quote from Lurch1985

Tbh, I think the painting system is fine. I know it's trollish, but I agree you should plan your wiring better. Plus if wiring gets so damn easy it's impossible to blow up machines, no one will ever hear the lovely exploding machine sound.

I would play the ninth with that sound.

Quote from IC_Pandemonium

and then you place a cable between a red and a blue cable *aaaaahhh!*

Then the color depends on the block on which you click.
If you look at the red cable, then placed cable will be red. If you look at the blue cable, then placed cable will be blue. If you look at something else, then placed cable will be uncolored (black).

I think CovertJaguar solution is probably the easiest one to implement. It would just require the replacement of the if statement with an else if block in the canInteractWithCable method. Though for the players it would also require that anyone that might be in this situation to first color the cables right next to the one you are going to place white first and then change it back to the right color after the new cable has been placed. Something like the below would work.

You could also implement the opposite to be true with black cables not interacting with any other cable color and let white cables interact with every other cable. This would be equally easy to implement and wouldn't require the player to color the cables on each side of the new spot if they ever ran into this position. Which I think makes this a better solution.

However I do like the idea of being able to make a stack of colored cables without having to go back and paint everything. Though that wouldn't be nearly as simple to implement.

(Assuming 15 is a white cable)

Universal Cable = Black / Solitary Cable = White

Universal Cable = White / Solitary Cable = Black

i like painter place cables idea. or maybe a cable placing painter.