Make Silicate better at repairing damaged windows

[Carver]

Per the title, it's an old chem that rarely sees use on its own. This would help solve that and give a (better) means to repair partially-damaged windows. A(n effective) means to repair windows is the primary goal of this thread.

For the unaware, this is Silicate, it's a truly ancient chem that could be sprayed to strengthen windows. It was never very useful back in the day.

Edited October 22, 2024 by Carver
Cheers to Benbot for informing me it works, albeit very poorly

[benbot16]

It already does this (relevant code here), reinforcing glass after its been repaired, and repairing at a ratio of 3 HP/unit.

It breaks the sprite if it starts getting reinforced, though, and it's pretty tedious to use since spraying it directly applies everything in the spray bottle.

Edited October 22, 2024 by benbot16

[Carver]

5 hours ago, benbot16 said:

It already does this (relevant code here), reinforcing glass after its been repaired, and repairing at a ratio of 3 HP/unit.

It breaks the sprite if it starts getting reinforced, though, and it's pretty tedious to use since spraying it directly applies everything in the spray bottle.

Intriguing, in this case I suppose that I’d hope it’d get updated/buffed for better usability. When I asked a few engineer mains they had no idea of anything fixing windows which is what prompted the thread (as I remembered this decade+ old chemical that was useless and mildly lightened window sprites).