Hud Text is Yellow or Orange in Control Panel

[Greystone]

What does yellow or orange text represent in the control panel screen?

[Jack Schitt]

White = That block is on and part of the grid you've accessed.
Red = Block is damaged or not completely built.
The other colors mean those blocks are on "sub grids". Each grid will have it's own font color. A sub-grid is a grid that's connected through a moving part:

- Rotor: The base of the rotor (Stator) is one grid that will be the same text color as the grid it's on. The part of a rotor that spins (Head) is a separate grid. The rotor head and everything attached to the head and after it will have a different but the same font color.

- Piston: The body and shaft of the piston is one grid that will be the same color as the grid it's on. The plate on the end of the shaft is a subgrid, the plate and everything after it will have a different text color.

- Hinge: The base of the hinge will be part of the grid it's on. The part that moves will be a subgrid, the text will have a different color.


A grid is the term the game uses for a structure we've built.

[Greystone]

excellent! TY very much. I could not find anything on this in the Wiki....

[Jack Schitt]

I don't think anyone's figured out if there's an order to the subgrid colors. I did a quick google search before I answered to share that info if I could find any. I didn't find any info about that either.

[M200Chan]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

I don't think anyone's figured out if there's an order to the subgrid colors. I did a quick google search before I answered to share that info if I could find any. I didn't find any info about that either.

From my experience, they kind of spin around the colour wheel, starting at orange and moving towards yellow. If I can play later today, I'll post an exact list.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by M200Chan:

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

I don't think anyone's figured out if there's an order to the subgrid colors. I did a quick google search before I answered to share that info if I could find any. I didn't find any info about that either.

From my experience, they kind of spin around the colour wheel, starting at orange and moving towards yellow. If I can play later today, I'll post an exact list.

There's either a pattern or it's randomized. A color wheel chart is never made the same. Which color is where on them depends on where the person that made the chart decided to put the colors. I don't know if there's supposed to be a standard for that. If there is a standard? lol...nobody followed it.

[Arock]

If you have enough they literally look like a rainbow with every color and shade going in order down the list.

[DivineEvil]

I may be totally wrong about it, as I have never tested it or cared enough, but it may be that subgrids down the hierarchy start from orange and following down the hue wheel into the yellows, but if you interact with the subgrid, then subgrids upward the hierarchy towards the master grid will instead start from teal and up into the greens.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by DivineEvil:

I may be totally wrong about it, as I have never tested it or cared enough, but it may be that subgrids down the hierarchy start from orange and following down the hue wheel into the yellows, but if you interact with the subgrid, then subgrids upward the hierarchy towards the master grid will instead start from teal and up into the greens.

The grid we access the terminal from (if we don't use the keybind: K to open it directly) will always be white. You might be correct about the colors being a chain of hierarchy.

My question is: Where's the color chart they used? When searching for color wheel charts the results are color wheels but they're all different. Color swatches don't have to have a circle or pie shape. They can be any shape. They can have gradients that remove a defined line separating the shades.

I haven't noticed the colors having an ordered pattern in any way, but I haven't really looked to figure that out either.