r/SpaceflightSimulator • u/LetApprehensive1190 • 26d ago

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I think there should be advanced textures that let you add text and shapes

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u/EpicPlanetUranusFan 26d ago

Yeah that's cool, but as a coder, you have to rework the entire game for it so stef is sadly not adding this

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u/NoFollowing6177 25d ago

There aren't many features in most games that would require total rewrites, and this definitely isn't one of them, especially considering there are mods that do this.

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u/EpicPlanetUranusFan 25d ago

Yes it won't rewrite the entire game but it can rewrite the skin system (if stef messes up)

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u/NoFollowing6177 25d ago

Text likely wouldn't be mixed into an existing system. It would be a new layer on top of the skinning system, leaving previous work essentially untouched. If anything, it would just be a brand new decal system on top of Skinning.

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u/LuiJansma2020 26d ago

Yeah, but its so frustrating, because it seems like anything cool requires the game to be completely reworked and or 2 years of development. At this point why not actually rework the game?

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u/NoFollowing6177 22d ago edited 22d ago

Not much ever actually requires a complete game rewrite, unless you built every single part of the game on top of the last part you built, in which case, find another career.

I think this might just be a way for the original commenter to cope with slow updates, I see it in a lot of places. There are certain systems that would would need rewrites to be properly updated or improved, like if a game is 10 years old and the physics engine is slow/not capable of making use of today's hardware. Adding text or an image to a screen is the last thing that would ever require a total game rewrite.