So, the title doesn't mean we'll be playing chess, i want to suggest that a feature should be added where we can make patterns easily, like checkers, for example some WW2 fighters have a checker pattern right? So what if we can make those patterns in SP?
Let me know what you think down below, i just think it's a neat idea.
I think using the Text is the way, here.
However, the Text part currently is quite limited and not super user-friendly with a couple bugs it has, which those two things combined really hamper our true potential with that new part.
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If we were given a far far larger "Character Support" than it currently has, we could use "Special Characters", of which there are some amazing things available through that.
For example: If you're on Windows, go to Start Menu, type in
charmapand hit enter; in that window, up top select "MS Gothic" (a font your system should have by default). Scroll through all the stuff that font has, to get an idea what I mean. 98% of what's there does not work in SP :( We're basically limited to the various "Latin" characters, which the best of them I think is the letter "Delta" in terms of a shape (a triangle). There's also the Arrows in 4 directions, but I'm not sure what all this Forum supports, as I've tried to paste stuff before and it doesn't show up.I made this, for a "warning" label on a Contra-rotating Twin prop setup I made (if both arrows work, copy everything and paste it into the Text Editor window to ACTUALLY see how it looks; replace every # with a press of the Spacebar. as the forums only let us place 1 space at a time):
That being said, some of the characters that DO work, can only be seen when the Editor window is open and on the actual Text part. The "input" field in Part Settings doesn't show some of them.
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Worse than that, though, is that these special characters also BREAK the "Curvature" function, as they're not supported :( Thankfully, that won't matter too much for Wing Art, but for anything on a curved Fuselage, it limits our possibilities of using text as art.
Those who know HTML/CSS will have a lot of fun, since the Text parts support a number of that coding.
UNFORTUNATELY, their implementation of it is odd, and it's not a case of 100% support, nor 1:1 support. For example, anything in HTML/CSS that uses a colon will need to be replaced with an equals.
line-height: 10%is how HTML does itline-height= 10%is how SP wants it. (I think this part may have something to do with the XML format our builds are saved in)Also that the code originally is stuff like:
So for me as a n00b to HTML or CSS, that made figuring things out even more complicated lol
@MrShenanigans i will try
@Sakorsky yeah but you can attach it to parts that are circular like the nose
@Clutch oh ok
@Sakorsky Basically a Jundroo feedback site where you can give them feedback or suggestionfm about sr, sr2, and sp
@MrShenanigans the label part is flat.
@EasternPatrick what is a user voice?
Can you make that in the label part? Just use thousands upon thousand of dots
I think you should said that in "User Voice"