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Set colour to memory location

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Elite:
Could we have an option whereby a memory location is chosen, and colours are assigned depending on the value of that location?

So if a bot changes the value in the selected memory location, it changes colour.

It would be useful for telling at a glance which antbots belonged to which colony etc.

EricL:
I think a .color sysvar is a great idea not just for human recognition of species or intra-sepecies role but for whole host of bot-bot reasons from "I'm poisonious"  advertisement to "I'm in heat" advertisement for sexual reproduction.

I suggest two new sysfars:

.color
.refcolor

.refcolor could also be used for color recognition of other things such as shapes and (once they are visiable) shots.

Won't be in 2.43, but I sure like the suggestion.

Numsgil:
Traditionally Carlo has been vehemetely against it, which is why it hasn't existed yet.  But feel free to add it.  Personally I'd use .red, .green, .blue instead of trying to overload a single .color.

EricL:
Do you know why he has been against it?

Numsgil:
I believe he felt that color was a property used by people to see what's going on in the sim, and shouldn't be mixed with the bots' sense of reality.  Or something like that.  You could probably find the post, he's only made a few.

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