How do I make a piston go until it reaches a surface

[junior spindle]

I need to make a piston keep going until it reaches a surface, once it stops it needs to send a signal

[cobalt cove]

You could get the position of the piston and add a sphere cast to it. Add an event 30hz and a if so when hit on sphere cast is true it will stop and connect stop to an event sender.

[dense cradle]

raycast or vector dooooooot

Use a raycast

Get the pistons forward vector and position and wire it into a raycast

The raycast will output the distance from the piston to the object that it hit

Wire that into the distance input on your piston

[junior spindle]

How do I get those?

[dense cradle]

there chips search them up and place them

Raycast
Get forward vector
Get position

Look at the pistons circuit board

There’s a yellow output at the very top

wire it to the Get chips

@junior spindle

[junior spindle]

This isn’t working

[dense cradle]

Attach a object to the piston and try it

[junior spindle]

Connect a thingy to the yellow rod on the piston?

[dense cradle]

Yep with your connect/wiring tool

[junior spindle]

Ok doing it rn

No worky

[paper ravine]

One Don't hook up the distances and two u want the raycast distance to be smaller so that it's directly infront of the piston and number three u need an if chip that's hooked up to the hit part of raycast then hook the then up to the stop on piston and configure raycast to ignore players 🙂also just curious what's this for?

[junior spindle]

I don’t mean to be rude

But I have no idea what you’re trying to say here

[paper ravine]

If I'm wrong it's probably cuz I'm half decent at circuits in my opinion

[paper ravine]

Not rude

[paper ravine]

Ehhh

It's instructions

[junior spindle]

Also it’s for a hook thing that shoots out and grabs players

[paper ravine]

Oh

I can make u one

Also u wouldn't have to do that

That's just extremely confusing

[junior spindle]

No, I want to make it myself

[paper ravine]

I can help u

I can try to explain or show pictures

[junior spindle]

I also want a model to go with it

[paper ravine]

Mk

[junior spindle]

My plan is to attach a trigger volume and a seat to a piston that just goes until it hits something or until about 5 seconds is up

[paper ravine]

Hol about u do both

[junior spindle]

Huh

[paper ravine]

I want to explain without confusing u but can't

Ehhh

[junior spindle]

Dw about it

I’ll mess with this ray cast thing until it works

[paper ravine]

So after the trigger hits something or both after a delay of five seconds piston comes

Baco

[paper ravine]

...

No need

[junior spindle]

Ohhh

That’s what I meant

[paper ravine]

Yuh

Hmmm

U could get a trigger handle and when trigger handle primary action pressed piston fires forward and it has a trigger volume with seat in front hooked to gold bit and when the trigger volume touches a player it's seats that player and when it touches a object it stops and after a delay of 5 seconds after delay brings piston back

And wire piston to gold bit on a clamp and the trigger to black part

Then it should work ish

🙂

[junior spindle]

Omg I’m so stupid

Idk why I didn’t think of that

[paper ravine]

?

Ooohhh

[junior spindle]

I didn’t think to use the trigger volume to stop the piston

[paper ravine]

Cuz u smarter n there's probably a better way

[junior spindle]

You found the better way

Tysm

[paper ravine]

Np ig??

Yw

[keen furnace]

Collision detection volume on Object hit stop piston🤷‍♂️

[paper ravine]

Mhm

But the collision volume does the same as trigger in this case

[keen furnace]

collision detection Volume is more accurate in moving targets tho

[paper ravine]

U have a point

They could just switch them out still same instructions

[distant thorn]

I don’t mean to butt in but the collision detection volume would probably go off more than once due to there being multiple collisions on it that detect it being hit

[paper ravine]

Ehhhhh

[distant thorn]

From my use of the collision detection volume it’s more janky than a trigger volume

[keen furnace]

If they have a specific target to hit they could just add a tag and make it only fire the excec if the hit target has the tag🤷‍♂️

[distant thorn]

Yeah I get that but since collision detection volumes use multiple collisions inside of it, it’ll go off more than once

[keen furnace]

Ahhh. Then filter it with an int variable that adds with each hit. If less or equal to 1 execute, Else do nothing

[distant thorn]

Then when the trigger handle is pressed again reset the variable and push piston

[keen furnace]

Yup

[distant thorn]

That would definitely work, I just had to butt in because of how they act when hitting a player, it executes every single time the player hits a collision causing the impulse on said player to like die😭

[keen furnace]

We should definitely be able to edit how much collisions are in it

[distant thorn]

I agree and be able to set how long the collisions are so we can use a single collision and make it long enough to match the blade of a sword if needed

[paper ravine]

.....

Y so complicated

Just use a trigger then

[tawny summit]

munki

[junior spindle]

Man

How tf do you even find this

[tawny summit]

looking for a thing

[paper ravine]

Monk

[potent yoke]

Magic

[tawny summit]

b-brick san?!

[junior spindle]

No way

[tawny summit]

yooo is magic a reference to how hazmat bucket disappeared from the server?

[blissful zenith]

Is this already answered

I mean I would have just got a trigger volume on the piston and attached it to the piston and when the object entered I would stop the piston

[tawny summit]

i think bvrr has a video sorta explaining this