Cosmoteer Release Candidate 0.14.1_rc1

Walt

RC2 is now available: https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/5869-cosmoteer-release-candidate-0-14-1-rc2

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Walt Modding: Added PartTriggerProxy, PartToggleProxy, PartValueProxy, PartModeProxy, and PartAmmoProxy components. These components act as "proxies" to other components in other parts, thus allowing parts to interact with each other.

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I suddenly started thinking about things, and I need to ask how these proxies work, as I believe they would be extremely useful for something. Could I get some documentation at all?

Walt

Railguns have examples of AmmoProxy and TriggerProxy, and I can show more examples later.

Bubbet

Walt I'd be interested in more of those examples.

Walt

Bubbet The others work pretty much how you'd expect given the way PartTriggerProxy works:

MyToggleProxy
{
	Type = ToggleProxy
	PartLocation = [0, -1]
	PartCriteria // Optional
	{
		Category = railgun_power // Optional
		Rot = 0 // Optional
		Left = 0 // Optional
		Right = 2 // Optional
		Bottom = 0 // Optional
	}
	ComponentID = XXXXXX
	IsOnWhenNotConnected = true // Optional
}

MyValueProxy
{
	Type = ValueProxy
	PartLocation = [0, -1]
	PartCriteria // Optional
	{
		Category = railgun_power // Optional
		Rot = 0 // Optional
		Left = 0 // Optional
		Right = 2 // Optional
		Bottom = 0 // Optional
	}
	ComponentID = XXXXXX
	ValueWhenNotConnected = 0 // Optional
}

MyModeProxy
{
	Type = ModeProxy
	PartLocation = [0, -1]
	PartCriteria // Optional
	{
		Category = railgun_power // Optional
		Rot = 0 // Optional
		Left = 0 // Optional
		Right = 2 // Optional
		Bottom = 0 // Optional
	}
	ComponentID = XXXXXX
	ModeWhenNotConnected = 0 // Optional
}

Bubbet

Walt What are the part criteria stuff, doesn't seem to really make too much sense. And i'm assuming the part location works the same as part size?

Walt

Bubbet I actually didn't show quite all of the options for PartCriteria:

PartCriteria
{
	IDString = part_id // Optional, requires this specific part.
	Category = part_category // Optional, requires the connected part to be in this category.
	Rot = 0 // Optional, requires the connected part to have this rotation relative to our own part.
	Left = 0 // Optional, requires the connected part's left edge to be at this coordinate relative to our own part.
	Right = 0 // Optional, requires the connected part's right edge to be at this coordinate relative to our own part.
	Top = 0 // Optional, requires the connected part's top edge to be at this coordinate relative to our own part.
	Bottom = 0 // Optional, requires the connected part's bottom edge to be at this coordinate relative to our own part.
}

Any field you leave off it won't care about. So if you leave off Top, it won't care where the top edge of the connected part is.

EDIT:

Also, the Left, Right, Top, and Bottom values also accept ranges in the form of [min, max].

Bubbet

Walt Much more informative, thank you.
What is the "ValueWhenNotConnected = 0" for ammoproxys?

Walt

Bubbet What is the "ValueWhenNotConnected = 0" for ammoproxys?

When not connected the ammo proxy has 0 ammo.

Bubbet

Walt Seems to me like its acting as if it's always full instead of empty.

Walt

Bubbet Are you using it with AmmoSprites? I think it might not work well with AmmoSprites since when it's not connected to anything it doesn't know what the max ammo is, so it just assumes 0 for that as well.

Bubbet

Walt Yeah thats the thing making me think its full, also an ammo sum with a condition of containing ammo is also saying its on.