same issue

Something seems off, the projectile gets almost no velocity. Used to work well for me, has a patch broken it?

Is the gun up to date with the new update? Along with that, I dont see a button to fire the gun, so I have been directly shooting it through the PB, but it doesnt work. Likely a skill issue on my part, but any help is appreciated

actually after pasting it in a new save, the projectile just falls to the ground instead of being launched.

not sure why, but when pasting the ship or reloading the save, the projectile tumbles after being fired and is very inaccurate.

after doing some testing, its just simpler to replace the jolt on your ships. A timer block for connecting both hinges also helps.

no, they can't attach piston heads, only scripts can

With the event blocks can we get a non-script version?

and the front piston still seems to detatch

from what i can tell theres something wrong with the pistons, as now the far piston will detatch its head after pulling for a while. ive tried experimenting with different max/min extension settings but idk whats causing this

very well. thanks

Got it

as high as possible, it used to be infinite, but they patched that and it reset to the minimum

or just as much as possible

to anything in particular?

on existing pre update guns, increase safetydetach everywhere

From what I can tell the far hinge is detatching when the pistons are retracting. im not great with code so im unsure whats causing this, and using timer blocks doesnt seem to fix the problem.

the new update seems to have broken the gun again. It works fine if you build it, but when you copy paste a ship with the gun, it seems to break. From what i can tell there doesn't seem to be any tension generated from the pistons retracting, but the hinges seem to still be attached. if anyone else can figure out whats causing this let us know.

thanks im glad i went through you first lol

sure

I got a question if i attach it to a ship can i post the ship ill give you credit for the clang gun thats for sure

Amazing work! Just a small heads up, If you make this into a custom turret, and have trouble with tumbling projectiles and warheads not detonating, just increase the torque on your turret hinges and rotors. Works flawlessly!

updated the gun, should work again

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3296759268

Check out my ship if you like to see how I made work around

Update 2: Good News!

I have found (because i cant script) if you add a timer block in the sequence that reattaches "detach jolt" hinge after every shot before firing again, it will continue to fire reliably.

UPDATE: using the creative version only (survival is still broken in setup), if i replaced the aft most hinge head (for detach jolt) then reattached it in the menu, then fired, i was able to get one working shot - all successive shots slowly nudge the projectile forward ~5mps similar to firing the gun immediately without replacing the head. I'm not smart enough to figure out a fix and I think the creator is no longer in the game

Was a long time user of this piston gun but I think an update killed it or something. I've tried rebuilding both the survival and creative version - they are unfortunately broken now.

Does not work. Init_2 does not change the maxLimit of the piston.

an affront to clang
HERACY!

why does the projectile go so slow?

Double checked and tried it a few times on a ship, no dice

in the blueprints .sbc file. You can set it to NaN there and then delete the .sbcB5 file to make the change show up ingame

how did you set the safety detach that high?

did you put it on a station? they make it way harder to place blocks like that. It being a station would also cause a bunch of other problems if unsupported stations is also turned on.

I'm struggling with getting this to work, and I suspect it's in the hinge setup.
The game won't allow me to place hinges as seen in the video.
Could use some help.

ive got a situatuion on mine, everytime i remove the merge blocks the assembly falls apart. am i missing something here?

the script turns in on and off as needed. With it on, you're ship tends to turn super slowly, but it makes the gun safer, so it's only turned on for a second. The script can only toggle it annoyingly and sometimes when copy/pasting the gun or smth it gets stuck in the wrong state. Shouldn't really happen, but if it does and gun does weird stuff you can try toggling them manually.

Does this weapon require inertia tensors to be on?

Gotcha. Thanks for the info

3.) Don't remember exactly, probably less likely to explode (also mind the blast door block in front of the hinge, has a smaller collision model, less explody)

This is the only part in the script that makes it necessary in the first place:
List<IMyExtendedPistonBase> pistons = new List<IMyExtendedPistonBase>();
GridTerminalSystem.GetBlocksOfType(pistons, piston => piston.CustomName.Contains("Magic"));
foreach(IMyExtendedPistonBase piston in pistons) {if(piston.PendingAttachment) piston.Detach(); piston.Attach();}
Everything else you could handle with timers.
It's possible to get around that with hinges instead of pistons, but it's bulkier and weaker (https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2407655607)

2.) theoretically yes (look at this one https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2544323874) , but you will run into weird clang stuff
Timers can't attach piston heads, which is a necessary step to separate the projectile from the gun. If you skip this step, the gun will fire, but the projectile stays a part of the guns grid system. You can imagine a grid system that is like 100km long causes issues (potentially server crashing even)

1.) yes, but not quite the same speed, you'd need more piston for that
I made a proof of concept some time ago, but never finished it
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2912591119

Hi, I saw this and was inspired to try and scale this down to small grid. With this in mind, I had a few questions:

1.) Do the forces from a small grid Piston/Hinge/etc. create the clang needed to propel a small version of the projectile at the same speed?

2.) Is it possible to recreate this without your custom script? Maybe with a sequence of timer blocks? I'm having trouble understanding what happens when you run the default program, so I can't deconstruct it that way.

3.) Why switch from rotors to hinges?

I'm relatively new to SE, I've tried assembling it, following your video while doing so. For some reason while assembling it; pressing the button, nothing happens, any idea why? thx for the reply^^

I just used it in reverse.
But thats also great. Thanks

suprising how it didn't just end in a massive explosion lol
Anyways, fixed it. If you have existing guns, you should be able to just copy paste the script over from the new one.

Attention attention. the projectiles fire backward now. it still works but backward.

oh really? That works!

gyros, thrusters and cockpits reset it back to speedlimit, you can put a couch on it though.