New Building-Editor Pattern Suggestion

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Hi,
if you know Homeworld or the first Dawn of war game, you may know what I want to suggest.

The current building editor has many single colour patterns but only a few multicolour pattern with a very limited colour set.

My suggestion is that there are only pattern and you can choose the colours(colour set) you want to use in those pattern.
EXAMPLE:
You know the left side and my idea is to change this current system an make

pattern
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the wooden wall pattern changeable to build a wall with the same pattern but maybe in blue and red.
or the road
pattern2
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from the light brown coulors to gray

This would give us unlimited freedom to build the stuff like we want it to be build.

I do not know is this is even possible but I wanted to suggest it while you are working on the new Building System.

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Nice idea. I would like this for sure.

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Stonehearth uses color maps for a lot of entities such as the varanus, skin, water and obviously the terrain which are then used to assign colors based on the material maps: skin_white, green, brown1, brown2 etc. So that part of the code already exists.

Also don’t forget the possibility of adding more styles such as horizontal (already present) and vertical lines.

I suppose a more moddable building brush code would be possible. No idea if the team has time though it would be an amazing quality of life upgrade.

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Would be nice, who was it again that was rebuilding the building system?

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Awesome idea, The devs should really put this in the new building editor

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We’re pretty open to lots of different types of customization options for the new builder. We aren’t at the point yet where we are taking a look at customization however but when we do I’ll keep this in mind :smile:

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