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TL;DR

Add red/green bounding boxes to entities that are connected via red/green wires to the entity that the player is hovering over

What ?

Currently, when selecting an entity with wires it shows something like this


I propose that the bounding boxes on the entities connected to the entity that the player is hovering over should instead be colored with respect to the color wire connected to it (I'm not sure what the color should be for both, perhaps the corners could alternate colors)

Like this:

Why ?

I suggest this idea because it can be very difficult to determine where certain wires are going and what they are connected to when designing or viewing a large circuit network or processor.
I also feel it is a natural extension to the current way bounding boxes are shown when hovering over a power pole (see the non-colored boxes in my images)

Direct image links

Incase the images are not loading
image #1: https://imgur.com/6BftBPy
image #2: https://imgur.com/6hSmbld

Fix your image links to this:

Epb7304 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 04, 2024 4:47 pm

Epb7304 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 04, 2024 4:47 pm

Direct image links

Incase the images are not loading
image #1: https://imgur.com/6BftBPy
image #2: https://imgur.com/6hSmbld

Those are not links to images either. The direct links to the images end with .jpg


Also, upload images to this forum instead, so the images don't disappear when imgur dies or takes a nap. Way more reliable.

Fixed, thank you for the help. Glad that they make it as obvious as possible

Very good idea.

Best example immage is a vertical wire. Impossible to see which of the entities in the line its connected to.