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Configurable Automatic LCDs
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MMaster  [developer] 11 Mar, 2015 @ 1:10pm
Suggestions
Please post your suggestions for this script here. There is not too much space left in the script but I think I can squeeze some things in there.

To give answer to some of the suggestions:
I'm sorry, but no hooks into any mods. I want this to be vanilla while supporting as many mods as possible without any special hooks which would make this script dependent on them.

It is also not possible to get info about another ship from antenna. There are some ways to do it which would take most of the complexity of script just to transfer data between ships and there would be no cycles left to actually do what the Automatic LCDs should do - display things on LCDs.
So to answer all questions about getting info from other ships - it will not happen unless Keen adds official support for it!

I'm also sorry if you want me to make some other script. I currently don't have any more time to do other script and I don't do scripts on demand. I shared this one with you because I made it for myself and I thought it is cool :)

Your suggestions already made this script much better and that's what this section is about.

Thanks!
Last edited by MMaster; 9 Jun, 2015 @ 8:03am
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Deathpaw 11 Mar, 2015 @ 1:17pm 
Love your work! Would it be possible to add the following?
1: Speed
2: Acceleration
3: Orientation (based on 4 blocks XYZ?)

(BIG ONE)
4: Way to triger 0.5 second or 0.25 second updates?
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Jarquafelmu 11 Mar, 2015 @ 1:38pm 
Because the text size of a LCD is a field, would it be possible to grab it from the LCD panel instead of having to manually adjust it in the code?
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MMaster  [developer] 11 Mar, 2015 @ 2:55pm 
@Deathpaw: Speed and Acceleration maybe. Orientation probably no unless I find a way to do it without using the 4 blocks. Your 4th one is possible I think, but I don't want to invest time into that because people will use these on servers and I don't want it to lag servers to hell.
@Jarquafelmu: Certainly! Watch future updates ;)
#3
Coren 11 Mar, 2015 @ 5:15pm 
Could you add a block count for projections? this would be great for ship building factories so the material requirements could be seen for what ever the projector is currently showing!
#4
MMaster  [developer] 11 Mar, 2015 @ 5:16pm 
@Coren Unfortunately I don't think that is currently possible to do from in game script.
#5
Dr Fallen 11 Mar, 2015 @ 8:20pm 
Prehaps total remaining power?
#6
MMaster  [developer] 12 Mar, 2015 @ 1:18am 
Dr. Fallen: Can you please be more specific? I'm not sure I know what you mean by that.
#7
Dr Fallen 12 Mar, 2015 @ 4:23am 
I mean as in how long until the station/ship runs out of power. So how many x hours remaining.
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MMaster  [developer] 12 Mar, 2015 @ 4:36am 
@Dr.Fallen: I understand now. I'm not sure if there is a way to do that from the script. I think that it is not, but I will try to figure out something before telling you that it can't be done :)
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Dr Fallen 12 Mar, 2015 @ 10:17am 
Ok :) Good luck!
#10
-=AzraeL=- DDark 12 Mar, 2015 @ 11:24am 
i'd love a way to display camera feed on lcd's you look like the guy who could do it ^^
#11
MMaster  [developer] 12 Mar, 2015 @ 11:28am 
I know that every one of us would like to see cameras rendered on LCD, but it is not currently possible. And I'm not really optimistic about having that in Space Engineers any time soon as from my experience functionality like that eats graphics card performance like hell (that's why even in car games you can sometimes see the mirrors are bad quality or have low frame rate)
#12
Sangrias 12 Mar, 2015 @ 12:27pm 
For the working command, how about to show work/idle/off etc. on different screens? Like
Working * +assembler:off
Working * +assembler:idle
etc.
Because i have many of them :)
#13
Playtimeuk1 13 Mar, 2015 @ 1:59am 
Originally posted by MMaster:
@playtime can you please delete your posts from this Suggestion discussion? I don't mean to be rude. They are just not suggestions and I can't delete or move others posts.
All done. I have a suggestion. I don't know if it's possible. But are you able to automate messages appearing on these panels when you, lets say, open a door, or walk through the door? Not sure if this is possible.
#14
MMaster  [developer] 13 Mar, 2015 @ 2:24am 
@Playtime: not really. the script can show open/closed doors, but the more displays you have the longer time it takes to update the display. It is not possible to catch immediate events with script effectively. I'm sorry. But you can still use Working command to show which doors are opened.
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