Improvements to "find" mode

  • funky3000
    24th Jun 2017 Member 0 Permalink

    Right now, the find mode only highlights one particle type with red.

     

    It just so happens that the cursor to select the element to find (left click as primary cursor) highlights the element red.

     

    So using this logic, I think it would be quite handy to use right click on an element in the menu to highlight it blue, alongside whatever red particles you want to focus on, and thus this logic can also be extended to middle click to show a 3rd element as green.

     

    If blue is too dark on the black background, perhaps it could use cyan instead.

     

    Personally I'd love to use a couple extra "find" selections to view up to 3 specific elements on my infinite fusion chamber. Many elements that can be observed and studied within one of those, and I'm sure many other people could find multiple finds to be very useful for a plethora of reasons. c:

  • jacob1
    24th Jun 2017 Developer 0 Permalink
    This is actually how FIND used to work when it was only part of my mod. By default, ctrl+f would only activate the red, and there were other shortcuts (ctrl+shift+f or something like that) to activate the blue (right click) and green (middle click) finds.
    I also used to have a "button" somewhere to toggle between the find modes.

    It was very underused and confused people (due to poor design on the button) so I removed it when I made it an official feature.


    Perhaps a more intuitive way to do it would be to have it always do blue/green, but only do blue if erase tool isn't selected and only do green if sample tool isn't selected. (neither of these two would have any effect with those selected anyway)