Noob blink programer here. [Dev kit is still literally in the mail] I have one question that I have yet to see addressed, and if it has no answer, makes my multiple ideas that I have for games dead on arrival.
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My idea, used currently in the drafts of two different games, is to have two triangles per blink maintain a given color (in some cases, for the duration of the game), while the other triangles within that blink, through game play, change colors.
In this way, I can always address triangles … by an address of sorts.
Assume that “Blue” is a given color on one triangle in a blink. This is the “Sky”, and will signify ""12 o clock “”, A Player will physically rotate their blink so that the Sky is up. Six o clock, therefore, is directly opposite the sky. The full blink, then will have 12, 2 4 6 8 and 10 o clock bearings.
Is there code for saying “Set the 4 o clock triangle on this blink Red. Set the 6 o’clock triangle on this blink Yellow. Set the 8 o clock triangle a random color, other than blue” ?
It seems to me it’s literaly the first thing in the tutorials. I don’t know how exactly the faces are numbered, but when you can set 0 to a diffrent color, I guess you can do that with every single face
Thanks. I completely overlooked that, that zero was an address to a specific triangle. I was reading that zero as either saturation or timing. I read the opening part and took face as the full assemblage of 6 triangles, inseparable.
Then I jumped down to the colors.
Awesome.
I guess I’ve done all the pre coding / pseudo code I can realistically do then.
In case you really only want to independently light up faces, then you want to use SetColorOnFace(). Faces are numbered from 0 to 5 and each one corresponds to one “triangle”.
If you are talking about having a cluster of Blinks agree with what “sky” means and have then light up correspondent faces on different (connected) Blinks, it is a bit more trick but doable:
I feel obligated to post this here, and in the “sister” thread on addressability. I found this, and this is the exact thing I needed to get started.
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