Reclaimed wood stacks

[robdoar]

Sometimes my reclaimed wood creates separate stacks. Are there different types?

[Guest Alan Lawrance]

Yeah, there are actually two separate reclaimed wood items... same properties, but different mesh. It's confusing they are named the same... something we need to address.

[Bill Tarling]

Perhaps call one Wood Scraps, or the other Foraged Wood?

I'm assuming they might have different burn and/or heat time value

[Guest Alan Lawrance]

It's a cool idea to have different kinds of reclaimed wood, but in this case the difference was purely meant for visual variety of the same type of reclaimed wood. However, our gear system only supports one "mesh" for display, so the only way to get visual variety was to create a duplicate gear object with a different mesh. We may want to update our gear system to support "variants", so we can randomly choose from a pool of meshes... just for visual variety.

[robdoar]

It's a cool idea to have different kinds of reclaimed wood, but in this case the difference was purely meant for visual variety of the same type of reclaimed wood. However, our gear system only supports one "mesh" for display, so the only way to get visual variety was to create a duplicate gear object with a different mesh. We may want to update our gear system to support "variants", so we can randomly choose from a pool of meshes... just for visual variety.

I certainly appreciate visual variety.

If I had to choose between the two, I'd rather have a single visual mesh, and a less cluttered inventory system, but that may just be me.

[Raphael van Lierop]

Yeah, in this case we should simply have one mesh for reclaimed wood. Typically, the simplest solution is the best.