@Dying Dark Star thanks for the detailed answer.

These sound like worthwhile additions. I usually try to avoid features where someone else already has a mod for, but I think this fits quite well.

I'll have to think about how I can implement these features.
It will take some time, but maybe I'll feel like it during the upcoming holidays.

(part 3)
>Three, I'd add the functionality of targeting certain blocks for example: you be able to make all the conveyors on the grid be orange with the battered skin and windows have the retrofuture skin or just make the all conveyors on the grid be orange with no skin change.
>Four, I'd add the functionality of able to replace just the skins and not the color.
>Five, I'd add the functionality of being able to replace more then just one color and or skin for example: a grid is black with the scifi skin, red with the carbon fibre skin and yellow with the Retrofuture skin, then you'll be able to change the black, to white with the clean skin, red to blue with the weldless skin and yellow to orange with the glamour skin.

So if the functionality can be put in or not (or maybe made into a separate mod if it doesnt fit this one?) at least thanks for hearing me out.

(part 2) "How or what should be improved?" I personly think you can improve apon it with:
>One it not needing a block to be placed on the grid to change the colors & skins.
>Two, in the mod it has the functionality of randomly placing of skins and colors but it does that at the same time but theres no way to just apply just random skins and not replace the color and the reverse.

(part 1) @🅂🄸🅂🄺 it seems like the mod is not being supported any more, last time it was updated was 2023 and Meridius_IX / Lucas hasnt made anything for SE since 2023 and hasn't shown any activity for SE since than too.

"What's missing when using both mods?" Id say the ease of use. you having to place down the block to use its functions feels too rigid imo, also the "Color Replacer Blocks" mod you have to go thru muliple screens (the color picker screen and the terminal) to use while with this mod you just have to go thru one (just the color picker screen).

@Katarina I know that, but I've never used the mod myself, so I'd be interested to know what could be improved or what's missing when using both mods from a user's perspective.

the mentioned block basically allows you to replace existing colors or skins with another color / skin making it very easy to replace colors without having to repaint the whole grid.

@Dying Dark Star
What's missing when using both mods?
How or what should be improved?

Hi is it possable to add the funculty of the "Color Replacer Blocks" mod into this mod? it would really great if it is.

Heres the mod if you dont know the mod: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2110682720

@StarCpt, <3 thank you for fixing it for me.
I did not know it was in the Pluginhub that early.

https://github.com/StarCpt/PluginHub/commits/main/Plugins/Mods/BuildColors.xml

I submitted it with the dependency, but in my memory my mod was removed because of that by avaness

To be honest my mod works fine without the dependency. Sure the UI is not working but the console command work fine without.

Rich HUD Master has been on the PluginHub since nov 2023, but Build Colors did not work unless Rich HUD Master was manually added due to an issue with the xml. This should now be fixed fyi.

oh that cool, maybe the owner of the new plugin loader has loosened the restrictions. I should check it out, because in the old one there was a field for dependencies. When this is true in the new one, Rich Hud master could be loaded automatically.

i guess they fixed that then, because i am able to load Rich HUD Master that way without having to add it to my world.
server might be a different thing but i doubt that, otherwise we wouldnt be able to load it via Pulsar

I know I had to submit this mod. Rich HUD Master will not be allowed because there is some network code in it or so. This mod was only allowed because it works without Rich HUD Master

thats correct, it isnt available as a plugin (same with this mod)
but you can load approved mods client sided the same way you do with plugins.
so at the end you can make it work by also loading Rich HUD Master

@Katarina Thanks for the information. I wasn't familiar with Pulsar.
Unfortunately, Rich HUD Master isn't available as a plugin. Glad you found out.

@serialjwalker It is on my todo list to create short yt videos for my mods.

i thought this mod wasnt working anymore, loaded it via Pulsar (which is the new plugin loader for SE) and it didnt work..
duuuh of course it wont work if i dont add Rich HUD Master....
so yea, mod still works, make sure to load the dependency if using it client sided only.

could you make a tutorial? i can't make any sense of this mod but i like the idea of it.

odd, no clue why they dont play nice for me :/

I can have both and the UI ist showing up for me

found the issue, for some reason using the Sprays Mod the menu for selecting color sets stops showing up but the mod still works via chat commands.

yup, tried adding the mod to my world and as a plugin and it doesnt show up, the chat commands work but the interface has just vanished and im unsure why

It is still working for me.
Do you run it as a plugin or as a mod? When running as plugin you have to add
Rich Hud Master manually as mod.

is this mod broken? the menu has stopped showing up for me

re: weird mouse behavior, I'm experiencing the same thing. The mouse points either a bit above or below the element I'm trying to interact with. RTX2060 Super, 16:9 2560x1440, Vsync off, high settings. Removed and re-downloaded this and Rich HUD to no avail.

I do recommend this mod BUT I wouldn't use it in other then creative. For some reason I took out this mod a while ago and it is still in my game fully for me to use. And maybe I am not finding it or I am not reading 📖 properly but I can't find any where how to exactly use this mod to its fullest potential. If someone can guide me to a guide. 😂 That would be wonderful and in that case ignore the last line. I love the idea for the sets, good job on the mod! Magnifico! 🤌🏽👍🏽

Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

I’m playing at regular 16:9, 2560x1440 Full screen windowed. It also does it at 1080, regular full screen, etc. Anything else I can test?

I'm not sure if this is something that you can fix. But the color values are not saved with enough precision. My use case:

I am using Nanobot Build and repair which has two colors that you can paint a block. 1 for the grinding of a block and one for the Ignore grinding of a block. For this I have assigned the color value of (H)ue 0.0 (S)aturation 64.0 (V)alue 64.0 and for do not grind (H)ue 128.0 (S)aturation 64.0 (V)alue 64.0

I save this to the color set and when I restore them the values are wrong. The dont grind Hue is 0.0 Saturation is 63.8 and the Value is 63.9 additionally the grind color is now H 128.1 S 63.8 V 63.9

That wont work for me because Build and Repair is set for exact values. Also if you look at the other colors in the pallet they also have their decimal places wrongly assigned. Seems that this is a conversion error introduced when going from HSV to RGB.

Thanks for your time reading my report.

Hm, do you use any special resolution or aspect ratio?

In my game, the BuildColors has a weird quirk in that the mouse position on screen doesn't seem to match up with where the mod thinks it is. I have to hover the cursor above or below items to be able to click on them properly. Any suggestions for this?

omg, i have been looking all over for something like this.

Thank you very much for looking into these issues, if i find any more ill post them here.

@Gimmix_14 thx for reporting the issues.

I improved the handling of my color picker, but the other issues are not solvable by me.

* I cannot update the the vanilla/default color picker
* I cannot reduce the delay before my UI is visible in the color picker screen
* I cannot fix the click animation. It is handled by RichHud. I will notify the creator about this. Once fixed, it is also fixed in this mod
* The "save" window is intentionally decoupled by the BuildColors UI/ColorPicker screen because of some other limitations we have when enter a name. There are not the right possibilities with the ModAPI of Space Engineers to handle it how it should be. So I will not fix this unless we get better support for custom UI/input handling.

i think this mod is great, but i have a few issues that i cannot fix


when a color is "loaded" the colors do not visually update in the original color picker, rather i have to manually click on each one individually or close, reopen the picker

in color selector, if you slide the bar around a visual rubber banding of the slider is visible, if released on one of these rubber bands, it returns to its last position

in color selector, S is linked to V in that WHILE V = 0, S is set to 0 permanently

in color selector, you can manually type anything into the fields, and it stays

in save terminal, if you press esc, it will exit color picker, however the save window is not closed

when clicking any button, it goes bright, but stays bright until the button is clicked off of rather than on release

lastly, the ui often lags behind the opening of the color picker

dm me here, and i will give my discord to you for further details, steam limits comments to 1000 characters. thank you

Okay, we found the problem. SE does weird things. Even in single player mode, when the world is set to private/friends/public, the world unloads when the internet goes down (Steam unreachable).
In one such case, my mod failed to unload properly.
This is now fixed and in such a case the mod should unload as expected

its removing the link so add me on discord at flashstrike0962

{ENLACE ELIMINADO}https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nnaVq88onGYs0DX1fBT7Su5uZ5f7LLEc/view?usp=sharing

it would crash like several mins in i would say play it for a hour or two would probably trigger it

{ENLACE ELIMINADO}https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nnaVq88onGYs0DX1fBT7Su5uZ5f7LLEc/view?usp=sharing

thats just how it logged the crash in the form of it leaving the world but sure, also im removing a few mods from my world aienabled,crew enabled, hollow clean up planet

But it doesn't crash for me. I tried it before asking you because I thought this might be the case for you.

Can you send me your world, tho i can test.
The logs alone do not reflect your described behavior. In logs it looks as if you left the world and then my mod crashed

no i just had it installed, its odd that offline and dedicated doesnt crash but private/public/friends sessions hosted off computer do but i havn't fully tested offline to confirm

Yes it works in mp. Dedicated server will not execute anything meaning full because they don't need to.

The function executed where it is crashing is only called in UnloadData which is only called when the world exits. So there has to anything else which would trigger that the exit/crash.
Did you even interact with my mod when the crash happens?

so does this mod work on mp/dedicated servers?

Just played with it on offline session now and it seems to be working.

i had private session on meaning it was a mp game when it crashed and no it crashed randomly.

Sadly, I'm not able to reproduce it.
Can you share your world?

@FlashStrike thanks for the informations.
Thats stange, it executes code that should only run when mutiplayer is active.

But it crashes when you exit the world right?

oops i had it set to private

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xN0DuIaLBzS_Lx9IzeSitQ_uGAuAz4Ro?usp=sharing
Sorry for the comment spam but heres my entire log pastebin limits to 512kb's

just had the error again