monitor on floors/ceillings, wired monitors, colored monitors

mad-murdock, on 28 July 2012 - 01:32 PM said:

i miss the option to place monitors on floor and ceiling.

goal: create a monitor-tunnel with animations
(reading a file with animation data and displaying it synchronized shouldnt be very hard, but very effectful)

downside: this would probably need a different monitor block, since placing current monitors in current directions could get pretty hard otherwise

additionally, adding the ability to connect monitors via wire would make synchronisation for various monitors much more easy and not require network access.

and, of course, if using monitors for funky, flashy stuff, colors would be great. but honestly, for now, i would be fine with floor+ceiling installation.
if implemented, the linux terminal way with foreground and background color would probably be best. enabling BSoD and guru meditation (: color count wouldnt really matter. 16 colors for each fore- and background would be enough, but more cannot hurt.

xuma202, on 30 July 2012 - 09:05 PM said:

For the cables see this: http://www.computerc...eral-cable-v02/
And I see no reason why Colors would cause that much traffic. It could not at all cause traffic if it would be done like so:

mon.write("&3Hello &2 World") => Hello World

Xfel, on 01 August 2012 - 06:16 AM said:

If there were colors, they'd have to be stored per-character.

luanub, on 01 August 2012 - 06:29 AM said:

The colors that will not be added due to the overhead that it will add is graphical colors. The overhead comes from having to control each individual pixel. There is another post here in the suggestions forums that has the math. Search for it if you would like more information.

Colored text may be an option in the future, don't know. There is already a way to change the default color of your text through the config file. Many of us are hoping that it will eventually turn into something we can control in game through the scripts.

Casper7526, on 25 March 2012 - 04:35 PM said:

We've had color before it might come back eventually, it was using the minecraft color pallette, but it caused issues with functions in lua itself. However, the biggest fact about color changing is the same thing with graphics. The "asshole" factor.


Lets take Xfel's idea… and use term.color = red (something like that affect)

Then, everything after that is colored red (therefor you only needed to send a small amount of extra data cause you just changed the color.

Well this where the asshole factor comes in when users are given "pretty things"

text = "Hello World"
while true do
term.clear()
term.setCursorPos(1,1)
	 for x = 1, text:len() do
	 term.color = math.random(1,16)
	 write (text:sub(x,x))
	 end
end

Your now sending twice as much data as before for the same amount of text.

Now, this really isn't "too" bad for colors, but it REALLY prevents graphics like people want. Cause imagine if someone used the same setup, but decided to try each PIXEL as a different color.

So all in all, i would say we can expect text foreground coloring in the future, after the issues with lua functions can be resolved, but I don't believe it's a "high" priority item atm.

Cloudy, on 15 April 2012 - 03:10 AM said:

The main reason colours aren't in is because they do not fit with the vision of the mod. It would be trivial to implement (the minecraft text renderer does support colour changes) and indeed was accidentally enabled in the first version of CC.

Cloudy, on 01 August 2012 - 08:50 AM said:

Coloured text is something that we are thinking about - so all hope is not lost :ph34r:/>/>