Any questions will be answered to my knowledge, but any addition are very much welcome, I am trying to document my improvements and understanding so it is very much very very appreciated, chiiers!
@Monarchii i do wonder if there's a way to make it multishot? Mechanism may need to be duplicated, presenting lag issues, but on a wholly theoretical basis, could one missile, or perhaps FireWeapon in conjunction with TargetLocked (or whatever they're called) update a value determining what piston and missile activates?
@Monarchii Ah, so it's an incredibly small piston that you can't see? So either the rear trails behind as a floating speck, or the missile is by default sitting way behind the piston, and the piston... well, piston, sticks out in front when extended?
This launcher is single shot?
@Monarchii Yeah not shit.
More meant how it goes from the base to rotating with the... whatever you call the top bit. The launcher.
SP doesn't have a system for changing connections in flight, so I'm wondering how the rotators and connections work. Is it only an illusion, appearing to move with the launcher? Are the rotators connected to the piston, and both launcher and missile just sync due to tracking the same target?
I'm a bit confused by what that thing's doing mechanically.
On another note, I take it that Clamp01 is needed to prevent the false state for TargetSelected from sending a -1 value?
A little note about smooth(,)
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You can use smooth(x, 1/n), where n is the number of seconds it takes for x to change by 1.
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For example, if you have smooth(Activate1, 1/5), when you use AG1, it will take 10 seconds for the "smoothed" value to change from -1 to 1.
@Superliner350 anyway, i know you don't really say much, and i very much appreciate your upvotes, but how tf are you upvoting me that fast every time jfc u fast as fwk I'm actually starting to think you're a Schrödinger's Cat, everywhere and nowhere and omnipresent aaaa
This is useful for stuff such as :
[ Arm Missile Launcher ]
[ Cargo Door + Ramp ]
but most importantly...
[ Custom Landing Gears! ]
as a wise man from SP once said..
"it is okay to use but it is better to understand"
Any questions will be answered to my knowledge, but any addition are very much welcome, I am trying to document my improvements and understanding so it is very much very very appreciated, chiiers!
cough okay so, we'll go with the missile first.
it is attached to a piston(duh), but we'll learn a little bit about the input .
the code is
ceil(smooth(clamp01(TargetSelected),1/6))
how does the code work?
[ ceil ] rounds number away from zero, so any input of even a little bit rounds it to 1(meaning that it fully extends)
[ smooth ] limits the speed/rate of the input
[ clamp01 ] clamps the input between 0 and 1
on the whole, this is what is happening is :
[ ceil ] is turning the little input to 1
[ smooth ] is slowing the speed of the input to 1 by dividing it by 6 (1/6)
[ clamp01 ] is making sure that the [ TargetSelected ] doesn't go below 0 and above 1
the second part of the code for the rotator is changed a bit.
[ floor(smooth(clamp01(Activate1),1/6)) ]
this is different by having [ floor ] which rounds input closer to 0, meaning that until the input is 1, it is not allowing the rotator to move!
@Monarchii Hm, haven't seen them in a while.
@Graingy probably yeah, I think MintLynx did it however it works
@Monarchii i do wonder if there's a way to make it multishot? Mechanism may need to be duplicated, presenting lag issues, but on a wholly theoretical basis, could one missile, or perhaps FireWeapon in conjunction with TargetLocked (or whatever they're called) update a value determining what piston and missile activates?
@Graingy yeah, sadly so XD. I didn't really paint the bigger picture since I thought "well just attach all the missile as one" lmao
@Monarchii Ah, so it's an incredibly small piston that you can't see? So either the rear trails behind as a floating speck, or the missile is by default sitting way behind the piston, and the piston... well, piston, sticks out in front when extended?
This launcher is single shot?
@Graingy the piston is attached to the launching arm.. I should mention that pointing up is the default setting on this launcher goddamn XD
@Monarchii Yeah not shit.
More meant how it goes from the base to rotating with the... whatever you call the top bit. The launcher.
SP doesn't have a system for changing connections in flight, so I'm wondering how the rotators and connections work. Is it only an illusion, appearing to move with the launcher? Are the rotators connected to the piston, and both launcher and missile just sync due to tracking the same target?
@Graingy pistons XD
@Monarchii Yeah I don't follow how the "loading" works. How does it hand the missile off (or rather, mimic the appearance of such)?
also, the missile is "loaded" first, then the rotator allows itself to rotate to targeting position
@Graingy yeah, otherwise that'll fxk up the ceil & floor thing
I'm a bit confused by what that thing's doing mechanically.
On another note, I take it that Clamp01 is needed to prevent the false state for TargetSelected from sending a -1 value?
@Graingy the more important one is the comment, the vid is just an example, sorry for clickbait XD
I forgot this existed...
I will have to watch this.
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@ReinMcDeer ah, never thought of it like that, thank you!
A little note about smooth(,)
.
You can use smooth(x, 1/n), where n is the number of seconds it takes for x to change by 1.
.
For example, if you have smooth(Activate1, 1/5), when you use AG1, it will take 10 seconds for the "smoothed" value to change from -1 to 1.
@Superliner350 anyway, i know you don't really say much, and i very much appreciate your upvotes, but how tf are you upvoting me that fast every time jfc u fast as fwk I'm actually starting to think you're a Schrödinger's Cat, everywhere and nowhere and omnipresent aaaa