Recolorable Glass on Default Windows

[Niliscro]

As I was building before, I wanted to use the default windows for their frames, but I wanted to use a different color as the glass.  Thus this idea was born.

Basically, you would be able to set the color on the default windows to anything in your colorset by using the printgun or something.  This would be particularly useful for making walls with thin framed sections, making windows with colored glass that have the thin frame of the default window, or even for making "paintings".
Also:  Larger sizes of the default window would be a great feature.

Discuss.

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I like this idea.

[Dapizzanator]

I like this idea.

Neenja Edit: Maybe if you had the trans of the color out it would color the glass, and if you had the solid out, it'd color the frame? I'd get it.

[Meekl]

I really needed this D:

[Devon]

I thought of something similar to this a couple months back also it would be very useful to me

[shafin25]

Good idea!

[chilmans]

I have tried to script a window with a RTB-Preference to change the window color, but I never finished it.
I don't even know if it would work

[Niliscro]

Neenja Edit: Maybe if you had the trans of the color out it would color the glass, and if you had the solid out, it'd color the frame? I'd get it.

That would be cool, but solid colored windows could also be useful for some things.

I have tried to script a window with a RTB-Preference to change the window color, but I never finished it.
I don't even know if it would work

Do eet

[Tophius]

What about two different bricks? A glass-less frame and just glass? It may be tricky to implement correctly though.

[.::Taboo::.]

What about two different bricks? A glass-less frame and just glass? It may be tricky to implement correctly though.

Like real Legos?
Meh, I believe that all bricks have to adhere to a grid, thus eliminating this idea, at least without some hacky manipulation, or sparkle-magic as we say on CC.

[Tophius]

Like real Legos?
Meh, I believe that all bricks have to adhere to a grid, thus eliminating this idea, at least without some hacky manipulation, or sparkle-magic as we say on CC.

It'd still stick to the grid, but the brick itself wouldn't be centered. Think the window simply without the frame.

[Space Guy]

It'd still stick to the grid, but the brick itself wouldn't be centered. Think the window simply without the frame.

Yes, but you'd have to create two bricks on top of each other which causes problems.

You might be able to do it with static shapes - a windowless frame as a brick and the window pane inside it, non-colliding/raycasting like a JVS brick. If you paint the frame with a transparent paint then the pane changes color, making the frame non-rendering would have the pane disappear. Although the pane colour wouldn't save with bricks by default...

[Truce]

Perhaps the windows could be just the frame, and when they're planted, the pane is created inside them? This would add the frames similar to how JVS creates shapes. Then, when a paint projectile hits the frame, it could alter its color - again, like JVS, how the shapes can change their colors. Except this time the frame and pane are different objects, so they can be painted seperately.

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[Space Guy]

Gee, that idea sounds familiar

[Niliscro]

Perhaps the windows could be just the frame, and when they're planted, the pane is created inside them? This would add the frames similar to how JVS creates shapes. Then, when a paint projectile hits the frame, it could alter its color - again, like JVS, how the shapes can change their colors. Except this time the frame and pane are different objects, so they can be painted seperately.

I like this idea better