mossy plank
Basically the title. Can't find any previous things similar(though i could have sworn i made a similar post several months ago. Can't find it now though).
With the upcoming prefab spawner, a tool that allows for passing data between disconnected objects would be more useful than ever. Something related to connecting spawned items would be secure, and allow for more designs than are currently possible
Spawned wire connections
near smelt
honestly idk why we can't just have wireless stuff with just server based frequencies to prevent harmful stuff, hell, even lock it to only work for only your placed gates so no one can mess with your stuff
like i wire something to a IN port on a transmitter-something gate with the password/channel "TEST" for example, and the signal will come out of any other transmitter's OUT port with the password/channel "TEST". Make it caps sensitive, allow numbers, symbols... Endless possibilities
If it was player based, multiple players could have the same password/channel on a gate but that way it'd only interact with their own gats with the same password/channel. no room for mistakes. Multiplayer builds? just make sure the In/out gates are both placed by the same person
if any of y'all played people playground, think people playground radios
charred sequoia
What they have to solve with that, is someone placing a prefab down from the gallery that suddenly interacts with their stuff
Obviously if channels could be whatever string it would be somewhat rare that there is a collision, but placing something and effectively immediately giving it access to every frequency you’re using could be problematic
near smelt
I feel like it shouldn't be categorized as being one of your gates since it's not a prefab you built but pasted
meaning it should only interact with gates included in said prefab
imo
no room for error
charred sequoia
But then if it has a bunch of frequency out stuff that the player wants to use they have to go manually wire things up
I.e. you have a gas station that has an in frequency or something and you spawn someone else’s car that should be compatible but then it’s not because it wasn’t physically built by you
near smelt
that's prefab spawning though, entirely different gates
i'm just talking ab wireless "wiring". spawning prefabs with gates is different and already going to be doable judging by #dev-media message
charred sequoia
Yeah I was stating why there are possible issues with wireless connections
near smelt
well yea depending on how its made there can definitely be
charred sequoia
They mentioned in the past that the reason they dont want to do it is because of interactions between loaded prefabs and your own stuff
near smelt
but it can also be tweaked to remove said flaws while still being usable with other gates like ie: wireless channel OUT port > into gas station spawner > spawns prefab as if it was just a button wired into it
near smelt
They mentioned in the past that the reason they *dont* want to do it is because ...
well yea that i agree with
thats why i think itd be cool for them so be separated
otherwise all hell can break loose
lol
mossy plank
Another idea is a sort of... transmission code that isn't presented
Like, you have to copy paste it in
near smelt
true, maybe just uniquely defined by the game