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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

I could do this, but fuel categories don't have icons so they would all be red "X"s.

Rseding91 wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:44 pmfuel categories don't have icons

Bonus request: optional icon property for fuel categories.

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.

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.

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

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.