Display Module Formating and Number Crunching

[Space Shaman]

Display blocks have some severe limitations:
Creating images is a chore born of character width
The newer ship variables you can now display can't be modified in many ways one would want and in fact expect.

List of solutions:

Formatting:

• Add a monospaced option. This should take the form of a button near the top of the module.
  This would make creating images in display modules more feasible. Currently there is no empty space the exact size of box drawing characters.
  
  
• As a less vital addendum to the above, either a square characters option, or character width/spacing options
  
  
• Left, right and center, top bottom and middle alignment for display blocks.
  
  
• Allow the formatting xml to be placed anywhere and allow formatting changes based on where it is.
  This would allow for things like multicolor displays and changes in font size.
  
  
• An option to turn off the scanlines
• An option to remove the border from the front texture
  
• An option to rotate the front face of the display block (90 degree increments of course)

Number Crunching:

• Add a new block (or repurpose an old one) that can do math operations and process simple code like floor(), +, -, =, !=, and, or, xor, if, else, etc.
  it should only run calculations when activated by logic.
  
  
• Let this block be able to create variables in a similar format to the normal ship variables
  ie. [var] = floor([shields])
  These custom variables would be available to display modules that this block is linked to.
  Alternatively the variables could be global to the ship.

[doublepost=1482098356,1482097826][/doublepost]ALSO
The number crunching module should be able to read the number of active logic inputs it is connected to and be able to output a signal to adjacent logic blocks.
[doublepost=1482098604][/doublepost]ALSO
and option for text wrapping for displays modules

 

[jayman38]

To handle monospace and other font options, we should be able to select a TTF font (at the risk of turning blueprints into a format that slightly resembles RTF or PDF formats). There are a ton of neat monospace TTF fonts out there.

 

[Space Shaman]

Does starmade support amharic characters?

 

[Markus_McCloud]

Schine needs to see this!