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Fuel category for choose-elem-button
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 9:40 am
by dockmeister
Hi,
i would like the user to select a fuel type via a choose-elem-button.
It would be a lot cleaner to have the category "Fuel" as a possible elem_type available.
cheers
Re: Fuel category for choose-elem-button
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:44 pm
by Rseding91
I could do this, but fuel categories don't have icons so they would all be red "X"s.
Re: Fuel category for choose-elem-button
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:48 pm
by DaveMcW
Rseding91 wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:44 pmfuel categories don't have icons
Bonus request: optional icon property for fuel categories.

Re: Fuel category for choose-elem-button
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:05 pm
by Rseding91
Again, I could do that - but it's not going to work well fir 95%+ of the mods out there that try to use it because the base game doesn't have any icons and mods would have to fill them in - everyone conflicting with what icons they chose - it just doesn't seem like a good idea.
Re: Fuel category for choose-elem-button
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:35 pm
by mat1k
Rseding91 wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:05 pm
Again, I could do that - but it's not going to work well fir 95%+ of the mods out there that try to use it because the base game doesn't have any icons and mods would have to fill them in - everyone conflicting with what icons they chose - it just doesn't seem like a good idea.
Solution: Someone with more time than me creates a base set you could include in the game as defaults.
I'd make them but I'm doing 60-80 hour weeks until after the Christmas ham season ends.
Re: Fuel category for choose-elem-button
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:49 pm
by eradicator
Rseding91 wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:05 pm
Again, I could do that - but it's not going to work well fir 95%+ of the mods out there that try to use it because the base game doesn't have any icons and mods would have to fill them in - everyone conflicting with what icons they chose - it just doesn't seem like a good idea.
Base game only has two categories. One of which only has a single item. Just use rocket fuel and the nuclear fuel cell respectively as default symbols to give a hint to modders. They won't be visible in vanilla anyway.
And i'll pretend that vanilla doesn't already have visible red x'es... :P

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Re: Fuel category for choose-elem-button
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:37 am
by dockmeister
Rseding91 wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:44 pm
I could do this, but fuel categories don't have icons so they would all be red "X"s.
Below is a picture of what i am looking for. The red "X"s would be two item groups "chemical" and "nuclear"? If so, its not pretty, but i would use it. Its more helpful than the whole item list.
Its for this mod.
