QoL improvement for costume creator aficionados

I mention this every so often and even had a red name tell me "Hey that's a great idea" but nothing ever seems to happen with it. It would've been useful at launch but the more time passes and the more costume options we get (by all means keep 'em coming ) the more necessary something like this becomes so on behalf of anyone who spends an inordinate amount of time in the CC here's hoping yet again that it's on some to do list somewhere but maybe needs a reminder to be bumped up the list a bit.

The CC in my humble opinion is in desperate need of a color swap button. I made a sample button in this pic to show what it might look like/where it might be placed...



Examples of why I think it's needed:
Say you're going through the list of chest emblems... that takes long enough as is but, as the picture above shows, just by swapping the colors you can potentially make two completely different emblems from one option. Now the list is that much longer but each time you want to do this it takes 3-4 clicks to swap the primary and secondary colors... this could be cut down to 1 click with a swap button.

How about your SG has a color scheme of blue and white but some parts of your costume look better with blue on white and other parts with white on blue? Some parts you can't decide which way you like it better so you flip back and forth and end up wastefully clicking dozens of times finding out which way you prefer it (a flip flop would be a 2 click affair with a Swap button but instead it takes 6+ clicks without)

Also, combined with a handy Swap button, the "Copy current colors across entire body" and the similar ones for primary, secondary and "all" powers customization you could make sweeping changes to your look within seconds while staying within a certain color scheme.

The are many possibilities and honestly this one change would make a world of difference to all of us costume-a-holics... please consider implementing it.

My sore wrist and click finger thank you in advance.

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I'm certain this would take more coding than is worth it...

...but it <is> an excellent idea.

So, /signed!

Yeah having a color swap button would be useful and probably wouldn't be too difficult to implement the way you described either. I know I've wasted many clicks flipping colors around like this over the years, especially for things like gloves, boots and shoulder items to get them to match other parts of various costumes.

Yep, that'd work.

Wanted: Dialog if "Save across entire body" is selected to bring attention to it still BEING selected - as this would, I believe, swap it throughout otherwise.

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Absolutely NOT.

Instead, make clicking the X between the two colors do the swapping.

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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill Yep, that'd work. Wanted: Dialog if "Save across entire body" is selected to bring attention to it still BEING selected - as this would, I believe, swap it throughout otherwise.

I believe the Swap option is meant to be per-piece.

So, if you Swap your Blue and White chest, it becomes White and Blue. Once you change your entire costume's colors from Blue and White to Blue and Yellow, the chest is still swapped from that scheme and is now Yellow and Blue.

/signed

I'm totally behind this idea, for all of the reasons previously listed.

So very, very signed. I was working on a costume the other day, and I was trying to keep it three colors (generally a good idea), and so on each piece I was just constantly going back and forth between the same three colors... A swap button would've seriously helped there.

I have wished for exactly this! Make it so!

we need this

I don't like Swap, can you change it to Switch?
Otherwise, awesome proposal.

Honestly they could call it Switch, Flip, Reverse or heck call it the Bacon Button for all I care it's the functionality that I want.
Also I agree it would be nice that if you have say the chest emblem in reverse colors (B/W instead of W/B) that it should remain swapped if you change it to B/Y.

Not sure about putting a swap button between the color radio buttons... it might be too easy to hit accidentally when going from primary to secondary but it could be just to the right of the secondary color as in

(_) (_) (Swap)

to keep them closer together and more efficient while not splitting up like kind buttons.

Any other suggestions or ideas to improve upon it?

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The way some of the pieces are currently structured (some head details come to mind) are inverted with what should be the primary color in the secondary slot. I think this would be a great feature to add next time they are updating the interface.

/signed

Code Analysis time!

Let's assume costume colors are in a variable. Because that would be logical and the only way I can think of keeping track of them.

[code]
Make a new temp variable (of type color) assign color 1 to it.
assign color 2 to color 1
assign colorTemp to color 2.
Add a nifty button. done.

PMing to pohsyb ... now.

We need this.

I really want a swap mechanism too, some sets have the curious trait that primary color is background on one piece and detail on another, for instance.

I like your original swap button better CR

And totally and completely signed... I do this all this all the time so I feel your pain (literally)

+1. I've also been wanting and suggesting this for years.

I support this suggestion. Anything that makes costume editing less cumbersome is welcome, and this is just overall a good idea.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

An excellent and simple suggestion (Not necessarily "simple" coding-wise, I just mean... a small change that would give large QoL benefit).

My name is (not really) the Electric-Knight and I approve (really) of this suggestion.

Great idea! I like the first button better, visually speaking.
I don't care where it is on the screen, it'd be a handy option!

Thanks for suggesting it!