I write this post to ponder the possibility of having the decoration editor colour photons directly. From my tpt experience, I have found that recolouring photon by means of element "type" editing gives photons a sort of "over colour", that is not related to the photons spectrum colour, and in heat display the photon will glow it's spectrum colour. (Turning filter into photons gives the photons the colour usually given when passing through the filter.) Using filter automatically gives the photons 0 life - making them eternal. The use of coloured photons would give rise to easier moving art, (perhaps quenching the public’s thirst for moving solids?).

I am aware that this might be a problem as energy particles exist "above" other particles. That's why using the rectangular delete function on clone(phot) destroys photons, leaving the clone behind to clone more. Using the console is the only way to access the large groups of photons, as the property editing tool only targets one. As a hacker, energy particles seem very disjointed from the game. I do hope the nature of energy type particles does not cause problems with the decorator.

Please comment if you agree/disagree and add to the debate.

I am a tpt "hacker": I hack the element's properties alot. The stacking of photons is one of the difficulties that the suggestion is up against. It isn’t mandatory for photons to be coloured, so it would only be done when it is useful - when you arrange them in, say, a bullet shape, set the velocities for one direction and colour the photons. It would be difficult to make the property editor tool target multiple particles, it shouldn’t be that difficult to make the decoration editor target them.

I know, but photons seem so good for predictable moving shapes. People already use the console and filter for this. There are heaps of photon tutorials.

IDEA: if it isn't too difficult, the photon can carry the hue only, so a brown photon will be orange (as brown is dark orange).