Explaining Code using GregTech Metaphors

[alpine idol]

(Making a thread so it's all together)
So, you'd route your AE2 interface to the cleanroom, and you'd have a subnet that executes one Machine

You can think of running the Network Cable to the Cleanroom input as creating that public PlayerInput playerInput variable

[bitter quarry]

hol on bro let me me rephrase my question in a gtnhish way

[alpine idol]

That's routing from your AE2 network to that cleanroom.

[spare topaz]

👀

[alpine idol]

Now, you have access to the cleanroom, and you want to run one machine in it.

[bitter quarry]

right, or we can fill it up inside with pattern providers(i think they are addressed in code as functions)

[alpine idol]

So, let's say you want to make a circuit, and the first step you have in that chain is a wiremill, and everything pipes into the next thing so you only have to do that one thing to kickstart the whole assembly line. In code-ese, you'd be calling the Wiremill that is inside the cleanroom

[bitter quarry]

yeah actually, i just realized how dumb my question actually meant

[alpine idol]

Creating the variable in one script is analagous to having a network cable to the cleanroom.

Calling a function on that variable is analgous to having the cleanroom input pipe into a machine inside it.

In this analogy, Update is basically when you have a machine passive'd. It's constantly receiving input from the network and putting its output back into the network. Like a machine that just has a single pattern provider pointing at it

You don't have to do anything to run it, it's just always going.

[bitter quarry]

yh

[alpine idol]

Consume iron, output plates

[spare topaz]

im gonna have to refer to this thread later..

this is a good analogy

[alpine idol]

For Unity tips or for GregTech

[bitter quarry]

this modpack is like 4-5k hours of gameplay

so imagine this code is my terminal

so i am passiving something, you give it the ingredients and it goes through the line, you dont just spam pattern providers in gtnh like you do in other modpacks, i want it to do the same, just basically. keep updating, if i have the avaible materials perform the line, but the problem is, i am unable to send the materials to the line, its connected to the network and is supplied with channels but its nor taking or recieving

[alpine idol]

Well, you've got your network terminal, but what's the Cleanroom doing? What's inside that? (Show the code for PlayerCamera)

[bitter quarry]

1 sec let me undo the errors

[alpine idol]

So, looks like this process is completely passive. This is gonna work just fine without you needing to put any pattern providers anywhere

[bitter quarry]

really?!. so how do i connect it to the network for it to start running, i gave it channel, but i think i am missing a interface or a pattern provider

[alpine idol]

As long as you've got this in your base somewhere, it's going to run fine (just put the PlayerCamera component on an object)

[bitter quarry]

how exacly?

[alpine idol]

You'd just attach the component to the GameObject you want to be doing this

[bitter quarry]

pretty sure it didnt work earlier but let me rety, 1 second

@alpine idol so it actually worked, but i am unable to interact with the serialized field, i am trying to drag a game object but its not possible

[alpine idol]

Which object are you trying to drag, and into which field?

[bitter quarry]

its a empty object. i am just trying to drag it into a "transform" foeld

[alpine idol]

Are you trying to drag something from the scene into a prefab?

[bitter quarry]

... sigh, please kill me

nvm

[alpine idol]

A prefab isn't actually in the base. It's a blueprint. You can't wire data into a blueprint

[bitter quarry]

still doesnt work, evne tho i entered prefab mode

[bitter quarry]

oh, let me rerty

still doesnt work, evne tho i am inside the prefab itself

[alpine idol]

Show a full screenshot of your unity window. What object has the PlayerCam script, and which object has the PlayerCamera script?

[bitter quarry]

sure

and i am tryna drag the player camera position inside of the "playercam" game object

[spare topaz]

i cant see any embeds right now.. discord is being discord

[alpine idol]

Okay, does that object have the PlayerCamera script on it?

[bitter quarry]

seems yes, why tf i cant send screensots anymore

[alpine idol]

Discord broke

[bitter quarry]

let me restart

[alpine idol]

No, like, Discord broke

not your discord

Capital-D Discord

https://discordstatus.com/

[bitter quarry]

oh-

anyways, we continue this convo later?

[alpine idol]

Might need to be.

Because it seems like your issue is the object you're dragging in doesn't have the script you're looking for attached

And if you say it is there, then I can't really continue until we've confirmed that

[bitter quarry]

but i am guessing my problem is from the class itself, i am unable to configure the serialized field. maybe around that. anyways cya later

[alpine idol]

The serialized field of type PlayerCamera, right?

Is that the one you're taking about?

[bitter quarry]

yeah

[alpine idol]

You would drag in an object that has the PlayerCamera component on it

Keep in mind - you've named them similarly, but PlayerCam is not PlayerCamera

[alpine idol]

Okay image uploads are back.

[alpine idol]

We're back in business show the inspector of the object you're dragging in

[bitter quarry]

i ma go to sleep soon, mb for lat ereply but let me set smth real quick

. check the name of the stuff so you dont get confused

but basically the box in the image, i cant drag shit into there for some reason

[alpine idol]

Show the inspector of one of the things you're trying to drag in

[alpine idol]

...you said this object had a PlayerCamera component on it

[bitter quarry]

ah wiat

i thought you meant the object i wanna drag

1 sec

[alpine idol]

I did

That's why I asked for that one

That's the thing you're trying to drag into the slot right?

The slot that is looking for a PlayerCamera component

If you want to reference a PlayerCamera, you have to actually drag one of those in

[bitter quarry]

holy shit

1 sec

here, i got this script

i just loaded 5 braincells

anyways i need to sleep,lets continue tmr

[bitter quarry]

@alpine idol i finnaly figured a way to translate my problem into ae2

this is my main net

public FirtPersonMovement.PlayerCamera playerCamera; this is my storage bus on my subnet. it connect and i can view the items, but i cant drag and use the items

[alpine idol]

Well, that'd be a wire to the storage bus. It's a reference.

So, what storage bus are you connecting to that wire

Or, actually, I suppose you can think of this as a storage bus and the object you're referencing as the storage block itself.

So, I guess instead, show me the chest you're trying to connect to this

[bitter quarry]

back... my life has been quite busy @alpine idol

anyways lets resume

[alpine idol]

When last we left our heroes, we were trying to find the object you were trying to drag in as a reference

[bitter quarry]

i kind of realized, i dont know what kind of object i am supposed to drag in....

[alpine idol]

You do though. This kind.

That's the type. FirtPersonMovement.PlayerCamera

[bitter quarry]

yes, i made my class a variable visible in my unity editor, now what

[alpine idol]

That's the thing you want to drag in

So drag in one of those

[bitter quarry]

so let me explain rq what does that class actually do. basically i put that script on a camera, usually i am supposed to drag smth in the player parent called, camera position

[alpine idol]

You have made a script with a variable that holds a reference to a PlayerCamera component. You can drag in any object that has that component on it

[bitter quarry]

which i got none... i think i need to restate my question in a better way, the main question above all, i will say in the simplestway my brain can. you know how you type a script, simple, inside class, attach it to anything and it does what its supposed to(if the code is right) so i did that step. second step, i would like to convert that script, into something like a code block, i could just type a line of code and it brings that entire script over to the B script where i typed the 1 line. and the B script can simply be linked to the thing you want. in summary, i want 1 big ass code, filled with classes, that can be treated like a blocks, i just write 1 line of code bringing that entire class directly over here, no changes, nothing fancy, just that, is that possible or no

[alpine idol]

If you don't have anything with that script on it what are you trying to reference

The thing you're describing you want to do is just not how code works

[bitter quarry]

oh, i see

[alpine idol]

Your scripts define a behavior that goes on an object and makes that object do the thing

I don't think any amount of metaphor is going to explain this, you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding about how code works and what it is for. You should look at the pinned guides for how C# works and then try !learn

[shut oak]

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[bitter quarry]

i see