actually, I disagree on it being useless. I've wanted several times a wedge with a monitor texture on the top face to be used as a desk for things like helms. It would allow an actual display infront of seats. For the first implementation, you could just do 2 different versions of the block, with just remapped textures, one with the monitor on the bottom, and one with it on the topYes, this has been discussed before and even tested in game.
Unfortunately the answer remains the same. While it is a really great idea, the current way rotations are handled will prevent us assigning a single texture to the sloped face on a wedge permanently. Making it almost useless unless the block is placed in only one orientation.
This is something i really hope to see changed in the future to allow wedged computers, screens and more interesting wedge designs.
Consider it a wanted feature and tentatively planned.
actually, I disagree on it being useless. I've wanted several times a wedge with a monitor texture on the top face to be used as a desk for things like helms. It would allow an actual display infront of seats. For the first implementation, you could just do 2 different versions of the block, with just remapped textures, one with the monitor on the bottom, and one with it on the top
Because there isn't a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong history of that in the game, is there? :P
This is putting something mostly broken into the game and calling it a situational feature. I have no intentions of doing that, sorry.
Don't come to the devs with problems, come to them with solutions... Kupu can then make your best suggestions sexy. :D
Okay, how's this for a cheat?Yes, this has been discussed before and even tested in game.
Unfortunately the answer remains the same. While it is a really great idea, the current way rotations are handled will prevent us assigning a single texture to the sloped face on a wedge permanently. Making it almost useless unless the block is placed in only one orientation.
This is something i really hope to see changed in the future to allow wedged computers, screens and more interesting wedge designs.
Consider it a wanted feature and tentatively planned.
Not how it works; rail stuff can only turn because it's a separate entity.
The problem is that if you rotate the block the textures don't end up on the right face. We just have to wait for Schema to fix the texture mapping, not come up with strange 'solutions' that don't fix the main problem.Not sure if the issue is that you can't have different textures on the square faces, or the fact that stuff would have to be upright. What about if you had a 'keyboard' looking thing on one side, then something innocuous and not 'obviously' a single way up, like on those server decorative blocks. If having a thing that looks decorative, but isn't targeted for an obvious way of facing, I think it could work.
I challenge people to mock up suggestions and post them here.
Okay, putting aside the issue of the text on monitors, and going back to my original suggestion, this was more inclined to cater for decoration primarily. It would be great if it were possible to have modules, computers, scanners, etc, rotated as well obviously. I guess that's possible using rail rotators though?
