What are these buttons at PROP?

  • Cocoa_Bits
    10th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    When you click a tool named PROP (its in Special section) you can choose to set the life, temp, tmp, etc. But they are 2 buttons that seems have no use. I see it everytime when I using PROP tool. They are named flags and dcolour. You can see the screenshot here.  What is the uses of "flags" and "dcolour"? :/

  • jacob1
    10th Jun 2014 Developer 0 Permalink
    flags is pretty useless, you'll probably never need to set it.

    dcolor is used to control deco color. It's in ARGB format: 0xFF00FF00 is green.
  • Protcom
    10th Jun 2014 Member 1 Permalink

    I was waiting for an answer for this question for a long time. I don't know what the flag is but I think dcolour is the decorations color for the element. By the way property tool PROP is in the tool section

  • Cocoa_Bits
    10th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @jacob1 (View Post)

    dcolour is too hard to set what color "code-ish" that will type in the box. 

     

    Why they put flags at the PROP tool but it has no uses?

     

    BTW Thank you jacob1. :)

     

    @Protcom (View Post)

    Me too.. I'm waiting for some months what is "flags" and "dcolour". But now this day the truth has been spoken!

     

  • Protcom
    10th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    I'll keep myself up to date with this thread. I was going to ask the same question but I saw this thread:)

  • dom2mom
    10th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @Cocoa_Bits (View Post)

     Flag can be used.... but very rarely. I myself really don't know all of the commands for it. It just allows you to change somethings (for example you can make it so aray will never dissapear.) At least you used to be able to do that.. I dunno. I don't use it.

  • Cocoa_Bits
    11th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @dom2mom (View Post)

    Seems "flags" is useless. And some rare stuff can be formed because of "flags" tool.. The tool named "flags" is a big mystery.

  • mecha-man
    11th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    Flags are used so that when FIRE dies it turns into SMKE instead of disappearing.

    It doesn't matter anyways since they don't save.

  • jacob1
    11th Jun 2014 Developer 0 Permalink
    Neither ARAY nor FIRE use .flags. liquids use FLAG_STAGNANT (0x1) to tell it to not do so much movement code because it's in the middle of a blob of water. They also use FLAG_WATEREQUAL (0x10 in my mod) for water equalization stuff. FLAG_SKIPMOVE (0x2) is used for photons when created by PCLN.

    None of these flags will have any effect when set between frames, because they will just be cleared automatically.
  • mecha-man
    11th Jun 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    How come when things burn the FIRE has a flag of 0x00000001 sometimes?