Black is the new White

I managed to change the creation of hubs into a much more versatile array as I was speaking about in my last post - It is a lot more complicated now, but it is more versatile  which should make things a. easier in the long run and b. more fun.

I've also found some time making some hubs using the new versatile creation arrays and the  "any" input/output colour, black. So far I have two special types of hub; a primary colour combiner and an any colour splitter (names in progress). By putting any two primary colour inputs into the primary combiner, you get a new secondary colour (yellow, cyan or magenta).
The any colour splitter simply takes the colour you put into it and makes two outputs of the same colour.

You could easily make a hub which splits one red input into two, or combines red and blue into magenta. But the fact that you can do this with whatever colours at your disposal means that the player will have choice and will have to think about what they are doing. e.g. "Oh, I need to combine these two colours to get ___, but I also need to keep that colour in order to finish.... OH! so I must have to split that colour first so I have one left over."

there was a problems with the black input/output, because if you disconnected something in front of it, it would de-activate and turn back to black again, but it would stay connected - causing problems when trying to re-connect things again (is black, but thinks it is the old colour, or black, which doesn't connect to anything ; so now there is a fail-safe  so that if something is connected turns black, it is automatically disconnected.

There are a few small tweaks I need to make in regards to the "active" light displaying properly in the primary combiner. after that I will perhaps make a few more special hubs, such as a de-saturating hub (any colour to white). I was going to do an any-colour combiner (as well as  splitter) but now I'm wondering why I would ever use it (it would make two plugs into one, which would make things harder and be seemingly useless at the moment).

Might give this projects  small break and work on some of my others which are dragging further behind; we'll see.

all three output possibilities of the combiner plus inactive. note,  all  4 pictures are of the same hub

A few examples of colours put into the splitter, and inactive; note,  all  4 pictures are of the same hub