Terrain Analyzer

A Terrain Analyzer is a Terrain Tool augment. Its main purpose is to apply a color to generated Terrain instead of the default gray.

Source
The Terrain Analyzer may also be found rarely at wrecks.

Uses

 * The Terrain Analyzer has two functions:


 * When printed the Terrain Analyzer can be used on soil to absorb that color. Once the bar is filled with a color it cannot be changed, and this function is no longer possible.
 * Once a color has been fully absorbed into the Terrain Analyzer, it can be used to apply that color to soil that is placed with the Terrain Tool. (When combined with the Inhibitor Mod it can paint existing terrain without changing its shape.)

A newly printed Terrain Analyzer will have an empty bar. Placing the analyzer on the Terrain Tool will activate the mod and allow the player to absorb a color from soil, filling up the bar slowly with that color. The bar will only fill when the tool is used to suck up soil of that color. Once filled with a single, this function of the analyzer will no longer be possible, and it will always provide the same color.

Once the Terrain Analyzer has locked to a color it can be used to place soil with that color, prevent deforming terrain of any other color, or used to paint existing terrain.

Using the Terrain Tool to place soil will place that color of soil on the ground, either by placing terrain (default Alt + Click for placing, CTRL + Click for flattening over holes or creating ramps).

When the Terrain Analyzer is attached to the Terrain Tool it will prevent any soil that is any other color from being deformed, allowing precision digging of a single color of soil.

Attaching the Inhibitor Mod while also having a Terrain Analyzer equipped will allow the player to paint existing terrain, giving players more options for customizing the look of the terrain around bases. To paint, the player must hold the raise terrain key (default Alt) while clicking. This will recolor the terrain, and with the Inhibitor Mod prevents the player from adding more soil.

With each planet containing many different colors, a player could end up with a rather large collection of analyzers, with each color needing its own.

Terrain colors
There are a total of 107 different colors with every Planet having its own color palette with 12 - 17 terrain colors each.

The palettes for each planet can be found in the Terrain Tool menu of the Creative Mode (see right side).



Similar Colors
Some of the colors can be hard to distinguish. A simple trick to make sure you are not digging up the same color twice is to fill one Terrain Analyzer and try to dig up terrain that has a similar color, if you can dig it up with the filled Terrain Analyzer attached, it is the same color terrain, otherwise it is a different color and you should collect it using an empty Terrain Analyzer. This is especially useful on Glacio as 3 of the snow colors are very hard to tell apart.

Media
Gelände-Analysator Analizador de Terreno Analyseur de terrain