A small logic suggestion

[Tshara]

When working with logic I ran into two situations I thought could use some improvements.

- When selecting a block with C you see the blocks connected to that with V highlighted in purple. I would like a possibility to reverse see this as well. Select a V block and see the C block that controls it. Sure logic pipes help as well but not for everything. Rails for example.

- The second thing I would like to see if a rail pickup block is active or not. At the moment you’re unsure unless you check the logic behind it. A texture change would do it think.

 

[Kaisaurus]

Definitely agree with that !

 

[Trekkerjoe]

This would make complex mechanisms much easier to debug. All for this idea!

 

[Valck]

When working with logic I ran into two situations I thought could use some improvements.

- When selecting a block with C you see the blocks connected to that with V highlighted in purple. I would like a possibility to reverse see this as well. Select a V block and see the C block that controls it. Sure logic pipes help as well but not for everything. Rails for example.

- The second thing I would like to see if a rail pickup block is active or not. At the moment you’re unsure unless you check the logic behind it. A texture change would do it think.

Absolutely, I'd love to see both.
A request to allow making connections in reverse has been brought up before and has even been "recognized" - I guess just showing them is kind of a prerequisite, so there may be hope.

 

[jayman38]

What would be the best color that is not already in use? Would Red work? If memory serves, blue-green, green, and purple are in use. I think Yellow and pure Blue are still available.

 

[Tshara]

I was thinking more like using SHIFT+V to select the block in normal purple.

 

[Valck]

I was thinking more like using SHIFT+V to select the block in normal purple.

This may be confusing and/or annoying, since SHIFT-V is already used to connect a contiguous group of identical blocks to a controller; I wouldn't want to accidentally link a group if I fail to notice that I already have a controller selected, or get into reverse connection mode if I haven't.

 

[Madman198237]

Yeah, I'd just as soon say select a block, and highlight its master in red. Perhaps also a (Temporary, visible only as long as you're in build mode with that block selected) logic tunnel or line directing you towards the master.
The line/temp tunnel would also be useful for computer slaves.

 

[Tshara]

This may be confusing and/or annoying, since SHIFT-V is already used to connect a contiguous group of identical blocks to a controller; I wouldn't want to accidentally link a group if I fail to notice that I already have a controller selected, or get into reverse connection mode if I haven't.

Whoops. My mistake. Should have realised that. I was just thinking of a different type of key combination. ALT or CTRL.

Different colours would work as well but then the question is how do you select the block? Not with C.

 

[Trekkerjoe]

Why not with C? If you can select a logic block and see it's slave, then it would make sense to be able to see it's master as well.
If you want to make connections in reverse, why not do what Valck suggests and use C to select the block, and ALT-V to make a reverse connection?

 

[Tshara]

For connecting it that would work yes. But what if it is already connected and I want to know what the control block is by selecting the slave?

 

[jayman38]

For connecting it that would work yes. But what if it is already connected and I want to know what the control block is by selecting the slave?

Well, then you select the slave as normal ("C") and look for the red outline to see what control block(s) are controlling the block you have selected.