Teh Manticore
Terrarian
I just recently finished a teleportation hub and really craved being able to make a wire end where I wanted and not connect to adjacent wires. For example, if I had two lots of four wires going into each side of the teleporter, I wanted to be able to run a third wire into the center cell without connecting to the adjacent wires. There were other occasions where I had to reconfigure a whole wiring layout because the end of my wire that connected to a switch also connected to an adjacent network.
One way to do it is by having a set of masking tape items, one for each colour. When you click on a wire that has only 1 adjacent wire it is connected to it becomes a wire terminus, which means it won't connect to any other wires next to it. If you click on an empty space that has only one adjacent wire, then it places a wire terminus there. You could combine four into one master roll like the multi-wrench, and then optionally combine the master roll and multi-wrench into a super item that has the place, cut, and tape functions in one.
From my noob understanding, I think the wire data is stored as a separate dataset for each wire colour? Perhaps it's too much to create another four datasets for each wire colour's wire terminals. But then, as there's so few places that wire terminals would be needed, perhaps it doesn't need such large data storage and it could be handled in a more confined way?
One way to do it is by having a set of masking tape items, one for each colour. When you click on a wire that has only 1 adjacent wire it is connected to it becomes a wire terminus, which means it won't connect to any other wires next to it. If you click on an empty space that has only one adjacent wire, then it places a wire terminus there. You could combine four into one master roll like the multi-wrench, and then optionally combine the master roll and multi-wrench into a super item that has the place, cut, and tape functions in one.
From my noob understanding, I think the wire data is stored as a separate dataset for each wire colour? Perhaps it's too much to create another four datasets for each wire colour's wire terminals. But then, as there's so few places that wire terminals would be needed, perhaps it doesn't need such large data storage and it could be handled in a more confined way?
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