Lazy painting

[crisp hornet]

as a lazy person, I would find it very useful to be able to apply this same patters of paint across type of parts (pipes, reactors, walkways, ext.), matched to their rotation. It would take out much of the monotony of painting, and would make it feel like a much more rewarding use of time.

[winter herald]

i guess built-in paint cards could be interesting...

[crisp hornet]

I don't really like look of paint cards, but I like the look of ships' internals, so I wanna be able to highlight that.

[winter herald]

managed to initially misread

[crisp hornet]

oh yeah I wrote that poorly, sorry. I edited it now

[winter herald]

MRTs sure appreciate it

[alpine fractal]

This could definitely be handy. So, you could basically paint a reactor (or an MRT module) and then apply the same design to all parts of the same type on the ship? I like the sound of that. Bonus points, I guess, if it can do pattern matching over a selected region so you can paint-copy a whole module!

Huh. Now I have to wonder how hard that would be to design... you'd probably have to have some sort of sliding window, then repeat that over the four possible rotations and four possible axis flips, I think.

I guess bonus points if it would also support lazy pattern matching, though that wouldn't be too hard; you'd just have to get a good loss function/similarity function, then threshold based on some user-provided value. The trouble would be finding an intuitive one. Do you just go tile by tile? Do you use a different difference value if it's just a different rotation or flip?

Of one thing I am certain: I am currently in the object detection/classification section in my computer vision class, and that's affecting my approach to this problem!

[mellow topaz]

tbh I think this is the best way you could have auto-painted ships without making Walt tear his hair out

it's always quite sad that you progress way too fast in Career for an actual paintjob to be worth it most of the time, this would help with that

I imagine if this was a thing, it'd be a UI feature somewhere in the paint editor

[winter herald]

perhaps one or two of the built-ins could have it or a variant like it... in classic, the model-l was the closest to unpainted

[queen jacinth]

This, but a built-in version. Along with the career 2.0, ships should come in with default paintjob in your faction's color.

[crisp hornet]

yes, exactly! I would love it to apply to modules too, but I haven't taken enough computer science classes yet to know of an efficient way to do that. (the rest of you message sounded like a different language to me lol)

[alpine fractal]

Well, I was half-asleep, and it's using terminology I only learned a few weeks ago. So I hope that's excusable.