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#Can someone explain painter ratio's please? The tooltip only confuses me
steel leaf
Four painters to a belt, four painters to a pipe
native current
like this?
visual solstice
4 painters are needed for each belt.
A single fluid launcher can supply 4 painters.
A pipe can carry up to 4.8 launchers, or supply 19 painters if it has enough launchers.
steel leaf
Well you're just painting the same shape four times, but if you manage to get the same belt split into four different painters and rejoined at the other end, you'll have a full belt of throughput
visual solstice
So 4 painters to a pipe, 4 painters to a belt works, but you can also plumb 4 launchers into a single pipe which supplies 16 painters
steel leaf
Right, I'm getting my numbers wrong. Haven't looked at my painter blueprints in a bit
Four painters to a launcher
Four launchers to a pipe
native current
I dont understand why I need to use launchers
steel leaf
To get paint onto the platform in the first place
visual solstice
That's how you got to/from platforms
steel leaf
That's one possible design that will get you a full belt, yeah
visual solstice
perfect
native current
and the pipes are only 1/4 full here?
steel leaf
Painters can feed each other though, which should help you compact that design down
Yeah
native current
Painters can feed each other though, which should help you compact that design d...
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neat pelican
and yeah its 1 launcher can feed 4 painters
but 1 pipe can hold 4 launchers
so really, 1 pipe can feed 16 painters at most
neat pelican
as willow said, the painters are also pipes
so you can use pipes and painters to kinda chain the whole thing
native current
So doing something like this is perfectly fine?
steel leaf
Yep, that's a full pipe
drowsy heath
press F8
steel leaf
You probably accidentally hit F7