Using this script, you can accurately rotate a rotor by exactly 90 degrees - or 45° or 30° or whatever you desire.
For example, you can use it for 90° turns. If the rotor is initially at 0°, you can go to 90° with one button click. Second button click will bring it to 180°, third to 270° and fourth will bring it back to 0°.
Download script here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=442994071
Download demo world here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=443002413I used a simpler version of this to build the Gatling Grav Gun on my Vendetta Battleship, which required precise 90° turns to fire safely. I'm sure you will find many other potential uses for this script.
The script used in the Vendetta Battleship can do only thing - rotate one specific rotor by 90° degrees whenever run. This version is much more flexible, you can do 90°, 45°, 10°, whatever you desire. You can also do -90°,-45°, -10° to reverse the direction. Also, it is not limited to one specific rotor: you can rotate any rotor with only one programmable block, provided you know the name of the rotor and the programmable block has access to the rotor (must be on the same ship & ownership must be correct)
Setup
1. Build the rotor if you haven't already. Lets call it "MyRotor" for now.
2. Set the rotors upper limit and lower limit to exactly 0°. Remember, if you hold CTRL and click inside a slider, you can enter exact values.
3. Download the script from Steam Workshop and copy it into a programmable block. Lets call that programmable block "TurnIt" for now, although the name doesn't really matter.
4. Place a button panel somewhere.
5. Configure the first button to "Run" the "TurnIt" progammable block. In the command argument, enter "90 MyRotor". The first part "90" means we want 90° turns. The secondpart "MyRotor" means we want to turn the rotor named "MyRotor".
6. Press the button.
7. Thats it, the rotor should turn by 90° now. See the "arguments" chapter for further usage examples.See AlsoRotor - Space Engineers WikiAdvanced UAV Material Transportation and Precision Delivery Utilizing the Whale-Swarm Hybrid Algorithm (WSHA) and APCR-YOLOv8 ModelDemoworld
If you want, you can try out the script in my crappy demo world first before you add it to your own world, see here
Arguments
Since Space Engineers latest 1.082 update, one can specify command arguments to Programmable Blocks. This is basically just a line of text you can enter when you put the "Run" command of a programmable block in you button panel or a co*ckpits command bar.
Examples: "45 MyRotor"Turns the Rotor named "MyRotor" by +45°
"-45 MyRotor"Turns the Rotor named "MyRotor" by -45° (same as above, just to the other direction)
"90 My awesome rotor"Turns the Rotor named "My awesome rotor" by 90°.
"22.5 MyRotor"Turns the Rotor named "MyRotor" by 22.5 degrees.So the first parameter is the desired rotation, the second the name of the rotor.
Use point as decimal separator for the rotation, so "22.5" as usual in english. NOT "22,5" like it is used in many other languages.
Also, using arguments doesn't seem to work in timer blocks right now (see "Known Bugs" chapter)Troubleshooting - typical problems with this script
If you have followed the Setup Steps above, and the rotor doesn't turn please check the following things:
- Does the programmable block print out any exception in the menu?
- Check the name of the rotor in the programmable block arguments. If its spelled wrong, stuff won't work and a expection is printed in the programmable blocks menu
- Ownership issues. The rotor and the programmable block must have the same owner (or maybe access via share options). Otherwise the programmable block can't do anything with the rotor.
- Are ingame scripts enabled? In Single Player, please check the "In-Game Scripts" checkbox in Edit Settings -> Advanced of your savegame. In multiplayer: some servers have ingame scripts disabled. Unless you are the admin, you are out of luck.
- did you use the script in a timer block? See "Known Bugs" sectionKnown Bugs
Using this script in timer blocks doesn't work right now.
The problem isn't my script, the problem is Space Engineers - you can setup arguments in timer blocks, but they never get passed to the programmable block. Therefor my script fails.
There is nothing I can do about it, other than reporting it on the Bug forum."License"
Use this in any SE creation you want. If you include the script in anything you publish on the Steam Workshop, please link back to the the Steam Workshop Page in your description.
Thats all!Explanation for other coders
I won't bore you by posting the entire code here, but these are the essential parts:
As you can see, the first part of the code just deals with parsing the brand new argument string, for example "45 MyRotor". (We got the new command arguments in yesterdays patch. Huge thanks goes to Keen, this makes scripting so much more flexible!)Code:
void Main(string argument){ // omitted ...// parse the argument stringif(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(argument)){ var parts = argument.Split(' '); if(parts.Length > 0) angle = Convert.ToSingle(parts[0]); if(parts.Length > 1) rotorName = argument.Substring(parts[0].Length).Trim();}var rotor = GridTerminalSystem.GetBlockWithName(rotorName); // omitted ...// Set rotationvar rotation = rotor.GetValue<float>("UpperLimit");rotation+= angle;if(rotation >= 360) rotation -= 360;else if(rotation < 0) rotation += 360;rotor.SetValue("LowerLimit",rotation);rotor.SetValue("UpperLimit",rotation);}}
The second part is setting the rotors rotation by setting the upper and lower limits.Download the complete script here:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=442994071
