Interaction volume w/ Piston

[opaque abyss]

Just replace the button with a interaction volume

[copper finch]

Don’t use a piston, use an animator component, looks smoother and feels better

[amber furnace]

here's a simple way to do it with an interaction volume

[amber furnace]

the animator is kinda annoying though

[copper finch]

Elaborate

[amber furnace]

if you put it to pingpong it will go back and forth right away, so you'd have to make it use forwards and set it's playback speed based on if it's opening or closing

though ig in the end it's less chips

if u remove most of the animator board

but ig same for piston

[copper finch]

Frame0: (closed)
Frame1: move to open state
Frame2: reach open state and do nothing and make it stay in the open state for however long you want

Ping pong it, it now will open, wait for however long you’ve made frame2, and then close

[amber furnace]

yeah but that's still auto close

hold on

[copper finch]

then all you’d need to do is check the animators current frame, and set its speed based on if it’s open or closed, if it is open, set the speed to -1, it will reverse, if it is closed, set it to 1, it’ll now do what it should normally do

[amber furnace]

also it snaps if you spam it

[copper finch]

animator is currently animating > if = true, do nothing

[amber furnace]

yeah but then you can't change direction midway

[copper finch]

Dude it’s an animator 😭

You define exactly what it does!

It does everything and more

[copper finch]

Oh wait I see, yes you CAN do that

[amber furnace]

yeah but this is a lot more effort for someone who hasn't done many chips yet, for visibly the same result

sure animation is slightly smoother

[copper finch]

If currently animating, check its original starting frame, and do the same method as I said

[amber furnace]

but just using a piston is probably fine for their application

[copper finch]

Circuits are difficult for beginners no matter what, if you normalise using a less efficient way, they’ll keep coming back and asking why is this not doing what I wanted or why it broke, rather then teaching them how to actually optimise something

[amber furnace]

yeah but them coming back after making it in a way they understand will make it easier to learn the more optimized solution.

it's like starting to learn math and making them use pythagoras before teaching them how to do 1 + 1

(can't really compare that to using an animation and piston, but you get the gist)

[copper finch]

no, toddlers must be made to learn quantum physics

[amber furnace]

i agree

but still, start at basics yknow

[copper finch]

this is dumb, TLDR: something about pistons and animators