Save breaking glitch

  • the_new_powder99999
    16th Apr 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    I don't know if this was intentional, but the most recent update seems to have made black filt unusable and unmakable without copy/pasting (originally made by setting filt's ctype to 2^30)

     

    Also, unrelated, but try moving a sign off the left side of the screen then look at the element menus on the right before placing it.

  • tery215
    16th Apr 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    what's the point of black filt?

     

    if its point is really removal of photons, just use coal

  • the_new_powder99999
    16th Apr 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    You can use it to make invisible aray, which is very useful if you are hiding electronics.

  • jacob1
    16th Apr 2014 Developer 0 Permalink
    I'm not an expert in this stuff, but could you maybe use two FILTs, which have the AND modes and together erase all the colors in the BRAY?
    It could possibly be re-enabled, but I don't think i'm the one that disabled it, or it might have been part of some other bugfix.
  • the_new_powder99999
    16th Apr 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    The filt modes don't seem to work on bray. Invisible bray on it's own works fine, it just can't be created anymore.

  • jacksonmj
    16th Apr 2014 Developer 0 Permalink

    This is intentional. Invisible particles make it very hard to see how saves work, and that is not something I'd like to encourage. In most cases, if something is invisible, it should be due to decoration (so that decorations can be disabled to make the particles visible).

     

    If you can suggest a way of giving decoration colour to ARAY beams that isn't too confusing or hard to use, then that could possibly be added to allow invisible BRAY via decoration colour instead.


    (Making FILT ctype=2^30 produce black dcolour would be confusing, since unless you know the history of FILT graphics behaviour it doesn't really make any sense for it to do that)

     

    Graphics bugs when signs are partially offscreen have been fixed.

     

    @jacob1 (View Post)

    In the next version, as a result of http://tpt.io/.265916 and a71cb3, erasing all colours will stop the BRAY from travelling any further.

    Edited 4 times by jacksonmj. Last: 16th Apr 2014
  • the_new_powder99999
    18th Apr 2014 Member 1 Permalink

    Maybe there could be a new filt mode that changes the aray colour to it's deco colour, that seems like it wouldn't be too confusing.