Spring RTS Engine

Paint box widget..!

On start-up it broadcasts a team lua message looking for other paint box widgets, if one or more is found you get a set of colours you can select in the widget UI which are the team colours of the other players running the widget and your own.

When you choose a colour other than your own and perform a map drawing the default is overridden and a lua message to the player with the appropriate colour's widget draws the line for you in their colour.

This would allow you to make complex multi colour art with your teammates colours and also allow you to scribble over an allies base and blame it on someone else or write a malicious message sending widget to spam up the map with drawings.. the possibilities are endless!

(ps. I have no intention of writing this widget the idea just popped into my head this evening)

Slightly related, a widget to auto-remove drawings of other specs would be nice

JohannesH wrote:Slightly related, a widget to auto-remove drawings of other specs would be nice

Use "/mapmarks 0" if you don't want to see drawings. A widget that auto-removed drawings would be extremely annoying for those who want to see drawings of other specs. Happens quite frequently really.

I wouldnt use it all the time, only when someone draws the whole map full of stupid lines that nobody wants to see... Which happens somewhat often.

Maybe allow 2 eraser sizes to discourage drawing spam.