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Memory if no "on" existed in input events / why colorsets?
Reinforcements:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on January 15, 2013, 07:03:06 AM ---This is more to do with the game networking overhead than saving. Telling a client that brick A is colored "5" instead of "0.3013 0.9328 1.0000 0.8900" uses a lot less data.
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Ohhh, that's why...
But what if you could create new color ids dynamically? So if someone decides they want a new shade of blue to work with, they add it to their client sided colorset and then blockland tells all the other clients over the network that "Reinforcements used the empty color id 65 for this color: 0.1 0.2 1.0 1" But the color would only be added to my colorset. It would be sent over to all the other clients so that when I make a brick with color id 65 they'd know what color to use. Then, if someone else wanted to make a color of their own, it would use the next available ID, which is 66. It would then tell all the clients what color that id stands for ect.
Good idea^
Zeblote:
--- Quote from: Reinforcements on January 15, 2013, 09:33:34 AM ---Ohhh, that's why...
But what if you could create new color ids dynamically? So if someone decides they want a new shade of blue to work with, they add it to their client sided colorset and then blockland tells all the other clients over the network that "Reinforcements used the empty color id 65 for this color: 0.1 0.2 1.0 1" But the color would only be added to my colorset. It would be sent over to all the other clients so that when I make a brick with color id 65 they'd know what color to use. Then, if someone else wanted to make a color of their own, it would use the next available ID, which is 66. It would then tell all the clients what color that id stands for ect.
Good idea^
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*creates 1000000 colors
*server crashes
Reinforcements:
--- Quote from: Zeblote on January 15, 2013, 09:47:20 AM ---*creates 1000000 colors
*server crashes
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Maybe you could have a client limit. Like, say you join my server
*Joins server*
You could have your custom colors from IDs 175-250. That way there'd be a max.
DrenDran:
Maybe, but how much do you really need a slightly lighter white.
Reinforcements:
--- Quote from: DrenDran on January 15, 2013, 11:43:37 AM ---Maybe, but how much do you really need a slightly lighter white.
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lol, but seriously, custom colors would be very nice to have. Not just for a slighter whites, but different blues, browns, anything you need that your current/the server's current colorset doesn't have!