Indicate centre of build area in Component Factory

[indigo totem]

Since the centre (anchor point) of the CC is not calculated based on its "centre of mass" (as I understand it), but rather the centre of the build area in the component factory; we now really need to manually centre the CC ourselves. Finding this centre is a bit tedious either zooming all the way out, or counting squares.

It would very nice to have some visual indication of that centre on the background grid.

I don't have strong opinions on how this should look but as a starting point for discussion I've mocked up a circle, which I think is both easy enough to see while not being too obtrusive.

Another viable option would be making the centre lines double width.

See also https://discord.com/channels/828292123936948244/1285884558318899220

[quaint escarp]

Another possible option is changing the color of the center lines or squares

[dapper lodge]

Instead of just marking the centerpoint, it would be easier to know whether the circuit as a whole is centered if there was some pattern to the grid lines that radiated out from the center as a square. Eg if every 5th square was colored differently, you could visually check how far the edges of your circuit were from the corresponding edges of the nearest such square. That way you can make sure the top and bottom edges of your circuit are equidistant from the top and bottom edges of the square, and similarly for the left and right edges.
If you only know where the center point is, you would still have to manually count how many grid squares your circuit occupies from that centerpoint in every direction to know if it's centered or not.

[delicate wedge]

Why not a recenter button that re-aligns the circuit based on calculated center (since code for determining that used to exist)? Clicked manually when you're done making major changes, so doesn't need to be recalculated every change/build/whatever.

[indigo totem]

Dev dislikes extra UI elements if there is a way to get the job done in a cleaner way.

[sand prairie]

i'd argue that adding a button is cleaner than the grid displaying the centre, but that might just be me

[open badger]

It is not really important that your circuit is internally centered

The only thing that matters is that the area of your CC contains the Center

[dapper lodge]

The thing that "matters" to me is that the center of the component visually lines up with what the game thinks is the center of the component.

In this picture the game thinks the center of the Bar component is the vertical column in its right, even though visually the center of the component is the middle part where the "Bar" label appears.