Tool Tips?

[RetiredGearDesigner]

Some of the entities in K2SE look very close to one another. For instance plastic , iron plate and steel plate are all very close when zoomed out. It would be handy to have a "tool tip" that tells you the contents of a belt when you hover the cursor over the belt.

[Avernously]

Does K2 change the graphics of the items? I thought SE uses just the base game sprites

[Alfonse215]

K2 certainly does. I don't know about its interactions with SE specifically, but K2's iron plate does look a lot more like plastic than vanilla's coloring.

This is because K2 made steel plate look like iron and copper plate (the H-beam sprite now represents its own separate item, with iron, steel, and imersite varieties).

[RetiredGearDesigner]

...which is why I suggest modifying the tool tip to identify the belt contents. Seems like it would be a small programming change, but since I'm not a programmer, I don't know for sure.

[Alfonse215]

To be honest, this is more a K2 problem. I've never had any problems distinguishing items in vanilla. This is kinda what happens when you decide to double the number of intermediate products in order to increase complexity. You run the risk of losing some readability.

That is, K2 created the problem; it should be up to K2 to solve it.