Datablock Compression Theory

[BDX]

Now it seems that there's a problem with having large colorsets and there's a limit on how many add-ons can be enabled before some don't load.

I'm no expert on Torque-script or the torque engine, but can't you merge all the add-ons together to save on Datablock usage or something?
Can't one datablock have all the default bricks?

[Ad Bot]

[blueblur121]

That's not how it works. A single addon has multiple datablocks. Say one has 3 and another has 4. If you merge them the new combined addon has 7. Still the same number of datablocks.

EDIT: umg 3000^th post. Woo!

[Zeblote]

add-ons can reference datablocks from other add-ons. For example, tons of guns just use the default gun bullet.

A colorset will take 7 datablocks per color. Yep.

However, unless you enable every stuff you can find, you won't get to that 4096 datablocks.

[BDX]

That's not how it works. A single addon has multiple datablocks. Say one has 3 and another has 4. If you merge them the new combined addon has 7. Still the same number of datablocks.

EDIT: umg 3000^th post. Woo!

Might wanna edit that again, I'm sure you wanted to say "Omg" if I'm not mistaken.

[Subpixel]

256 colors would be possible by just slightly modifying the engine. But no, not possible apparently!