We can make them match the faction colors. Fine by me too 
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Removal of the Blinking lights
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I think the blinking lights should contrast the faction color— i.e. Cybran should have yellow blinking lights and Seraphim blue blinking lights. Aeon should have red lights and UEF green lights.
put the xbox units in the game pls u_u
From what I understood of the explanation, it's possible to handle stalling/not stalling color change in a single loop instance, right? So that we pay a tiny fixed cost for the stalling/not stalling logic, and the rest is handled by some shader magic. All the other logic like building units and such could then be placed in appropriate functions instead of being polled every tick. Then we'd keep the old behaviour without polling everything all the time.
@mazornoob said in Removal of the Blinking lights:
From what I understood of the explanation, it's possible to handle stalling/not stalling color change in a single loop instance, right? So that we pay a tiny fixed cost for the stalling/not stalling logic,
I've explained it in this post.
and the rest is handled by some shader magic.
Possible, but that doesn't remove all the issues as described in the post mentioned.
All the other logic like building units and such could then be placed in appropriate functions instead of being polled every tick. Then we'd keep the old behaviour without polling everything all the time.
If you don't poll enough then the results are not accurate enough to be reliable, and if they're not reliable then why are we having them change at all?
I've decided to keep the lights, set to a fixed color. There will be no changes to the lights once they've spawned in. I'm fine with any color, they can be faction dependent. Uveso and Zelda made some suggestions:
@uveso said in Removal of the Blinking lights:
- I would obviously vote for yellow or blue.
- Also nice; light in faction color
- Or just white light (in this case yellow white like an old light bulb)
@zeldafanboy said in Removal of the Blinking lights:
I think the blinking lights should contrast the faction color— i.e. Cybran should have yellow blinking lights and Seraphim blue blinking lights. Aeon should have red lights and UEF green lights.
Any other opinions?
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@zeldafanboy said in Removal of the Blinking lights:
I think the blinking lights should contrast the faction color— i.e. Cybran should have yellow blinking lights and Seraphim blue blinking lights. Aeon should have red lights and UEF green lights.
yes, i think this is the best solution.
You just shuffled the faction colors around and I can't even figure out the logic which color goes to which faction, this isn't really contrast in an aesthetic sense. Using the player color seems like the better solution.
I wasn't aware the lights could obtain the individual player color, but my logic for the color selection uses "contrast" in a loose sense (for example, if Cybran is "red" the opposite color on the color wheel is green, not yellow) but I took the actual coloration of the factories and structures into account. Only UEF factories are actually blue, Cybran is black, Aeon is white, and Seraphim is chrome. I think yellow stands out on black better than green, so I used yellow instead of the actual contrast color, and then I shuffled the rest of the colors around.
put the xbox units in the game pls u_u
I also think that having the light colours be the player colour would be the best idea, it also adds to the already lackluster customization options in game so it would be a nice change of pace to see it happen.
Having the lights be the player color just adds more of the same color to the building. Having them be the faction color is a nice little nod to the "lore" while also not looking samey to all the other color the units/buildings already have.
