can this turret be manually controlled?

I realize that most people love just turning it on and leaving it on to let it do all the work for you, but some people may like the option to leave the AI off and just use it as an actual turret that welds and disassemble your enemies. (or regular blocks, it's satisfying either way to watch something melt away while you control it.)

can you make a version of this where it is a 3 DOF mechanical arm, the "shoulder" aims at the target block and the ("elbow") and ("shoulder" offset pitch) is changed to match the distance to it. It isn't supposed to be physical or anything it would just look nicer than having nonsensical beam

Weirdest thing, sometimes, when I switch to weld, there are parts of the AI Enabled Factory ui on the tool... I'll let JTurp know as well. Such a strange thing, they should not be referencing one anthers codes at all. This occured with both blocks on the same grid, a large ship in this case, when switching modes while the beam was active. (I have not done further testing to see if this happens in other conditions or reliability of reproduction, as it has not happened every time.

That can happen as Ash noted during development, however in this case it was a basic armor block. Noted also it has not repeated since for me.

Some blocks might have issues because the turret aims at the centre of the block bounding box, but the welding effect only applies to block collision model

yes, i noticed that just a little bit ago though the tool works with activated turned off which is odd, but the line appears occasionally briefly during welding even still a little odd but it works well... in response to others who said they had the bug with the tool not working after a certain point on some girds, I had it on my ship and this happened, I tried a few resets but to no avail, flying out of range and then back in however did resolve the fault... in case that is useful to anyone.

Red draw line should only appear if the beam is on and “activated”, but doesn’t hit any grid or voxel in its path. It’s purely visual

And this morning it stopped so far making that line... fun times with intermittent strangeness...

@humanoid.mp4 A little odd, but there is a red draw line when the tool is enabled, as opposed to the green draw line when using draw. Works as far as I can tell as intended otherwise.

@Idacat411 This is new, as it has never showed that before so im assuming it was a toolcore issue (i had to boot up SE to set this as this was the only thing driving me nuts with this item). i used nanobots as it was better on performance then the Nanites but was way to cheap. no that this has a work colors like nanobots im so switching back to this. but it uses a slightly different way of doing colors then the color picker so u have to have the color selected beforehand so u can copy it over. its a small thing and more like a "this is how it is" for anyone wondering what is off but im happy that the color thing is working now

@ArcZeroNine For the work color if you turn it on, move off of the control panel and back you can select the color, just have to do that several times. I think there is a bug in the refresh for the control panel.

yeah it does work for the first bit but later yeah you gotta drop it lol thanks anyway

Do not build blocks on same grid (or subgrid of the same grid) as laser turret - it’s supposed to weld other grids

why do they cuurrently weld only till the block is vibible and not to full?

The “Tool Core” itself seems to be broken at 1.205.

i am running into an issue where the turrets will not pull resources to build anything.

so a couple things need to be worked out: its not pulling resources (this may be due to how often it changes targets as it doesnt have time to grab what is needed), the fact it changes targets way to quick ( which may be due to the previous issue, ah circles), a work color mode would be nice so that if you do have grind selected it just doesnt grind what it wants, for the turret to tunr off if it doesnt have a valid target (not sure if this can be done)

Update: it will not work thru other tools and it needs a connection to the main convayor line. at least that what happend with me as it wont take anything from the grinding pit but when i branched it off of the same line it works. along with having a timer system that cycles the grids it targets every 30 seconds

i would like to say tho, not adding the drilling function is a huge plus. it seems to be super buggy right now (like server killer buggy)

ah ic. i was kinda hoping it was a thing as currently when you turnin it on its like a wild animal with rabies when u turn it on XD. im hoping having my grids connected with the connector will make it not want to grind them down, but the work color would be nice for the more fine details (kinda like the 'paint it pink' with the nanobots')

Honestly I do not know - this is a feature of toolcore that just exists and I never touched it myself

how would you use the work color mode. is there a premade color list that we have to use or is it a config thing?

when it gets stuck, you need to cycle what it can build (own grid, friendly/ neutral/hostile kinda thing)

im in a survival server, i was able to get it to work. they way i did it was do let it do its quick zap to add 1 part to the projection as i had it connected with a connector. once i got it to where i wanted to build it i locked it with a landing gear to make sure it doesnt fall then disconnected the connector. i doesnt like welding it own grid in any way. i will need to add a battery and the projector to the grid so it can do it all by its self

It is only placing the block from projections. It isn't welding anything. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to run a script or anything?

Beyond being expensive, it really should cost a LOT more power

I am using the Beam Turret, its placing 1 component and then does not build the rest, also seems to kill the sim speed.

i would love a version of this using prototech components feels a bit OP for my current world otherwise :)

Is there any chance something like this will be made as laser mining drill in multiple sizes?

fascinating

Alright. I got it working. I added the plugin for multigrid projector, enabled the checkbox for Set preview block visuals on server side, and it welds up the ship to wireframe, I cut it loose, and it welds it up the rest of the way once its not a subgrid. Pretty sweet!

So for context, I am on a self hosted torch dedicated server, in survival mode with plugins (disabled DePatch and PerformanceImprovements to test) I have a base in space with these welder turrets on it, plenty of mats. I built a rotor, projector, then setup the projection, turn these on and they just go bananas. Sometimes they weld, and if they do its 1 plate. Sometimes they just strobe. I have creative mode tools disabled.

oh so I have to be out of admin tools mode for this to work? Yes I am in admin mode while testing all this.

Do you have admin tools enabled? This messes up toolcore

Now theyre just flipping from one object to the next and not finishing anything.
Yeah I dont think this mod is working for me C:

The second I cut it off the projector so it was its own grid it started welding up the wire frame.

Having an issue in my world where it welds up a projection but only puts 1 plate in the part so when its done im left with just a wireframe build and they refuse to target anything anymore.

update : nvm on the work color I found it.

I'm testing this out in my space dock for ship repairs. Two questions, 1) Does the operating color do both grind and weld or can it be set to only grind that color? And where do we set that color? 2) When welding, can it get to blocks on the inside of a grid if other built blocks are in the way?

would it be possible to controll it like a turret? since it has turret in the name i assumed i can controll it but ok
also
can you make it so it actually targets the colored block?

Thank you

It pulls in the parts like regular grinder does

Do i need a collector near it or does it pull in the parts to send them to the cargo boxes?

Currently it’s not possible to make a drill turret that functions properly with toolcore, but there’s this mod https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3218498375 which has a lot of cool stuff and laser drills too

Any chance of getting something like this that could do drilling automatically? Or is that beyond the ability of the engine?

it will weld projection when placed on other grid or subgrid (rotor head for example)

so will it weld a projection on the same grid?

I felt like making the beams weld its own grid would get too OP since its basically a welder with 200 meter radius which can simply re-build entire ship if powered and has components. If you want that, you can try other mods like nanobot build and repair

having a issue where beams dont weld or track on the same grid. tested a few different versions omni tool works but this one and simple multitool dont seem to work correctly.

is there a way to make the laser less bright cus oh my god my eyes

Any thoughts of adding a drill?

yes they weld projections