Additional Circuit Features about integrated-circuits

[GopherAtl]

re: colors, It's a bit odd when you're used to bundled cables and such, but I've yet to run into a situation where the 3 colors weren't enough. But it would be nice if red and orange were more distinct when unpowered, they look so similar it can be hard to tell which is which.

IMO, the rest of the requests don't really fit. You're already building the equivalent of up to a 64x64 area of redstone into a single block, it seems a fair price that you sacrifice complexity in the process, being reduced to 2 dimensions and losing bundled cables. What you're wanting sounds more like the way RedLogic does integrated circuits, which is very different but also quite cool.

[Victorious3]

Colors being red and orange are mainly because they fit quite well with the green wires. I agree that they can be hard to distinguish, especially for colorblind which I should also consider. I think making this a config option would be sufficient. (red & green, dream combination)

@GopherAtl Never played with BuildCraft and its cobble & stone tubes? Those are quite similar to the red & orange wire.

@LokiChaos Tunnels are a good idea, and I'll think about doing something alike. Bundled wire or anything like that is not possible due to internal limitations, same goes for the other more complex gates you mentioned. The adder for example is meant to be built and not placed down as a single gate, too much integration there isn't wanted either.

Btw, I think a way to put labels on the circuit draft would be useful to give it a little bit more of a structure, and documentation as well, for the complex circuits.

[LokiChaos]

That's fine, I was just looking to put it more on par with standard digital logic simulators (eg: Logisim that I linked to). I understand the limitations imposed by the implimenation.

It could also be argued past what can reasonably fit on a 64x64 node board is probably better handled via MFR PRC or an actual computer (either CC or OC).

[Victorious3]

Tunnels implemented via 67b5e74 and related, going to be in 0.9
Works slightly different from what you suggested @LokiChaos but that's the best I can do with the internal limitations.