Read by Council user made button icons

[wanzer]

hi
with the logic buttons and activation modules we can now add functionality to the action bar
and we are able to give it a name..

what if we get a folder in starmade where we can hold icons and link them to the ingame action bar buttons ?
starting of with some example images that can be used

 

[kiraen]

Basically, a separate texture sheet to pick from for the hotbar.
I can see this happening, but I don't see it happening soon.
This would be a very nice QoL change.
I think this would be kupu territory, at least for the textures. Dunno if he has any idea how codable that will be.

 

[wanzer]

Basically, a separate texture sheet to pick from for the hotbar.
I can see this happening, but I don't see it happening soon.
This would be a very nice QoL change.
I think this would be kupu territory, at least for the textures. Dunno if he has any idea how codable that will be.

fingers crossed

 

[jayman38]

If custom textures were allowed in Starmade, I'd prefer to be able to create a texture from 4 or 5 layered transparent images. That way, just a few images combined can create a better variety of descriptive hotbar images.

Example transparent images: arrows, planets, Starmade icon, starburst, missile icon, beam, bullet icon, metal plate, shield grid, block icon (available with all colors), generic system block icon, numbers, letters

So imagine creating a shield buster ion beam and applying the following images to the button texture:
shield icon , with a beam on top of that, with a starburst on top of that, with a capital letter "I" on top of that.

 

[Lukwan]

I would settle for a Text Window on my systems so I can read it from the block itself or the tool-bar. This personalizes the ship even more and would make navigating the tool-bars in combat easier. (I have three tool-bars on the go on many of my ships.)

There is a strong RP element here. How many stories are written with legendary weapons to go along with legendary heroes.

Our modern military names all its weapon systems too.