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The current psychedelic CPM is pretty hard on the eyes. Even having a single constant colour for objects, clearly distinct from the grey of terrain, would be an improvement on this.

But how about going one step further? We could give all the major types of object their own colour -- e.g. red for fire, blue for water, purple for traps, green for exit (maybe green for both hatch and exit since they are usually easy to distinguish from each other) and yellow for miscellaneous stuff like splitters, teleporters....

I'm willing to consider this if enough people are in support of it. It should be easy enough to implement.

I must admit, I like the current colors and that they are changing.

But the idea of giving major object types their own color sounds like a nice feature. :)

With regards to it being "hard on the eyes" - an alternate option here could simply be to darken the color a bit, while keeping the shifting effect.

I recall now - the reason I made them shift color is to avoid any possibility of their color permanently overlapping with that of any kind of lemming - taking into account not just individual states (selected, athlete, zombie, in the future neutral) but also various combinations thereof. The concern of course, more being that a lemming overlapping the object might end up becoming invisible.

I've slightly darkened the color objects are drawn during CPM in commit 74E8AE8.

I'm happy to implement the overall color-coding idea if there's support (and ideas on what the color coding should actually look like), but at this point it will need to wait for V12.8 - but feel free to keep discussing it.

It looks like there isn't really much support for this idea. I've put up a poll just in case there's a lot of silent support.

Looks like I haven't seen this thread properly yet. I think this idea is useful. I personally think the objects (or their trigger areas) should be coloured three different types: red for traps and water, green for exits and yellow for other objects like teleporters and splitters.

Looks like more people are in favor than opposed, but more again don't care either way... to me, that basically translates to "do this eventually". Maybe that'll still be before V12.8, we'll see.

But may as well plan what will be done:

QuoteWe could give all the major types of object their own colour -- e.g. red for fire, blue for water, purple for traps, green for exit (maybe green for both hatch and exit since they are usually easy to distinguish from each other) and yellow for miscellaneous stuff like splitters, teleporters....

This is Proxima's proposal in the first post. No one has offered any further input on the "how", just on "yes or no". Any further suggestions here? I think there should be another distinct color for one-way arrows (or even better, replace them altogether with a "standard" one-way-arrow graphic).