#Modular robots
open patrol
thanks
okay so I have a robotics facility, this robotics facility can take any brain, any robot battery, any tool (maybe I'll combine it with the brain idk yet), and any engine
primal ferry
my first thought would be a furnace, but those only support one item as input
so that wouldn't work
open patrol
all these have different stats (battery capacity, engine power, weight, engine consumption) and in the end I want to have one robot with the appropriate stats calculated with the ingredients
sweet harness
Yeah you would have to pre-generate all the possible combinations, and then the player would have to select the correct recipe for the parts they are inputting
open patrol
yeah but that's really annoying, creates bloat and is not scalable
sweet harness
indeed
shell grove
hmm
open patrol
I mean annoying as a player, I don't think it's that bad to program
primal ferry
you can automatically generate the recipes and put them in a different tab
that might help a bit
rustic sluice
compound entity and auto detect the applicable recipe
shell grove
have the assembler set to a generic "aything" recipe and switch it in script as it gets filled? sounds painful though...
open patrol
I'll probably have a separate robotics tab anyway
sweet harness
Reminds me of Galdoc's Manufacturing mod
nimble saddle
recipe selection can be via constant combinator like entity. have script read that and automatically set the right recipe
open patrol
that's an improvement I guess
or I could create a custom GUI where you select a component for every slot
or both
nimble saddle
custom gui sounds better
open patrol
I think both is good tbh
but how do I go about making that?
do I make it an assembling machine and then hack a gui on top?
I don't even know where to start
rustic sluice
could do a custom assembler with a recipe that accepts all components
and then switch to the correct recipe once you have the components
or you go for a stage by stage assembly route with only combining 2 items each time
open patrol
oh wait that could work?
like a "crafting in progress robot" item
and then I add the stats with each individual step
that cuts down the recipes by a lot
but I can see problems with that aproach too
rustic sluice
you still need some custom assembler that auto chooses the correct recipe
nimble saddle
use rocket silo for each input. one silo accepts any brain module as fuel. produces one rocket part from no ingredients then triggers script that reads the unique amount of fuel remaining to know which brain was used.
similarly for each other part.
once theyre all done place the right robot in some output slot
open patrol
tbh I'd rather not have "auto choosing", I just want to not have 200 recipes
rustic sluice
or do a furnace and then use different fluids to denote the different tiers
sweet harness
furnaces can only have 1 item input
open patrol
I think the best UX would really be having a brain slot, an engine slot etc and for each of these slots you choose which type you want.
and then you just put the ingredients in the filtered slots
well let's do that step by step, first I need an assembling machine or rocket silo and make it have a custom interface
nimble saddle
one rocket silo that accepts any part as fuel.
on script trigger swap it for another silo that accepts any other part type as fuel..
until it has consumed exactly one of each part type. then put the specific robot in some output slot
on script trigger puts the 'burnt' item in your custom gui?