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Paintable Blocks [0.7.1]

Have you ever found Medieval Engineers' colors to be a bit boring and dull?
Did you get bored with designing stuff out of stones and wood?
Did you envy fellow space engineers for having so many colors to play with?

Now you don't have to anymore, as we have the pleasure to present you the

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This mod adds tools that allow you to paint almost every block in the game to any color you want. The process of doing so consists of two parts: adding a base coat to a block and coloring it. Currently there are 7 tools available for base coats:

• Plaster Tool - for coloring whole stone blocks
  
• Fine Plaster Tool - for coloring parts of stone blocks (edges, arches, etc.)
  
• Daub Tool - for coloring daub and wood walls
  
• Metal Paint Tool - for coloring metals and few small grid wood blocks
  
• Wood Paint Tool - for coloring almost all wooden blocks
  
• Brazing Tool - for turning metal parts into brass
  
• Russia Iron Tool - for turning metal parts into russia iron

After that, the blocks can be recolored using 16 currently available basic color tools, though it is also possible to create new ones and redefine colors in existing blueprints with basic xml skills (more on that later).

There is a wide support for already existing mods, in particular:

• Gothic Architecture & More
  
• Additional Arches
  
• Arched Timbers and Diagonal Planks
  
• Ship Crafting
  
• Brick Blocks
  
• All mods from the Train Parts Modpack
  
• Steam Engines
  
• Iron Bars, Grates & Fences

And many others, including by default all mods that use vanilla material names.

Please note that due to many textures included, this mod is quite large in size and downloading it might take a while.

Furthermore, as of 2020-10-15, the mod is fully survival compatible.

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This is the first release of the mod and there are some things not implemented or fully working yet. In the near future we plan on:

• [s]adding Survival compatibility - for now the mod is Creative only.[/s]
  
• replacing individual coloring tools with a single one that would allow for choosing the color dynamically
  
• adding the possibility of coloring block attachments - doors, bogie wheels, etc.
  
• widening the list of colorable blocks if there is such need

If you happen to stumble upon some issues, please report them to us, either through this mod's comments or on our Discord server, which you are welcome to join:
https://discord.gg/VUMmkQe

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It would not be possible to create this mod without the cooperation with skillful modders I had the honor to work with on this project. I wanted to thank them for their time and effort:
Equinox - creating the whole backbone of this mod which made it possible in the first place, scripting, a lot of bugfixing
Johnbeere - data editing, material, tool and color implementation and a lot of testing
Wolfgar7474 - making models and icons for all the tools
Onca77 - doing all the data work for survival compatibility

I'd also want to thank Shad for making our lifes a lot easier when implementing the materials for the Gothic Mod.

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Before the universal coloring tool gets implemented, there are two ways of getting custom colors implemented if you want to get involved into a bit of coding.

The color data is stored both in newer tools and in blueprints in the HSV format, one 3-digit group for each value (0-359;-100-+100;-100-+100). This value can be changed both in the blueprint files and also in existing tools or added to new tools (see Adding New Tools). Slight adjustment might be necessary due to the way colors are rendered in game.

Adding New Tools

To add a new color tool, duplicate one of the existing ones and open the file. You need to change all the PaintTool[color] subtypes in the file to new ones, not yet used. Make sure they are all the same. After that just replace the color code and change it's in game name to avoid confusion (note though that it will still appear with the icon of the initial one, so unless you want to create your own icons, just be aware of that).

That's it. Remember that in case something goes wrong you can always redownload the whole mod by unsubscribing and resubscribing to it on the workshop.

Have fun!

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2020-10-15:

• Full survival compatibility
  
• New dedicated tool for removing paint. Other tool only add paint now.

2020-03-06:

• added new Brazing Tool
  
• changed the color format - no more conversions needed. The old tools still use the previous format though.

2020-03-10:

• Thanks to Johnbeere, 8 new color tools added to a total of 24 now.