Read by Schine Rails STOP block

Ju Ju Eyeball · Jul 19, 2015

I would like to see a rail block that would cause the entity docked and moving on the rail to stop. When not activated, the direction arrows would be green and allow the entity to continue on its path. When activated, the arrows would turn red and cause the moving entity to stop on that block. When unactivated, it would continue on the path. This would be very helpful for elevators and the like.

ltmauve · Jul 19, 2015

Ju Ju Eyeball said:
I would like to see a rail block that would cause the entity docked and moving on the rail to stop. When not activated, the direction arrows would be green and allow the entity to continue on its path. When activated, the arrows would turn red and cause the moving entity to stop on that block. When unactivated, it would continue on the path.

Rail speed controller.

Ju Ju Eyeball said:
individual ~~rail~~ blocks to be selected with SHIFT-V

Normally we have the opposite of this problem. Just plain V

kiraen · Jul 19, 2015

Ju Ju Eyeball said:
I would like to see a rail block that would cause the entity docked and moving on the rail to stop. When not activated, the direction arrows would be green and allow the entity to continue on its path. When activated, the arrows would turn red and cause the moving entity to stop on that block. When unactivated, it would continue on the path. This would be very helpful for elevators and the like.

ltmauve said:
Rail speed controller.

Actually, it's even easier. Just point your rail perpendicular to the flow. like

>>>>>V>>>>

That's the way demonstrated and suggested by Bench in the rail tutorial videos.

AtraUnam · Jul 19, 2015

kiraen said:
Actually, it's even easier. Just point your rail perpendicular to the flow. like

>>>>>V>>>>

That's the way demonstrated and suggested by Bench in the rail tutorial videos.

This, why should we waste a block id?

StormWing0 · Jul 19, 2015

No need to waste a block ID when the speed controller has all your needs.

Just put a wifi block on the platform that is moving and link it to the speed controller on the main body. Also the same trick can be done with area triggers but not sure how.

Ithirahad · Jul 20, 2015

Uh, why are you guys using rail speed controllers as a rail stopping point? You can just turn the rail to the side and it'll stop until switched back to the front - and as an added bonus, if you have a strange setup, like one using multiple entities on one rail and a massive number of activators linked to a controller to fine-tune the speed of the entities, then it still works and nothing else gets messed up.

StormWing0 · Jul 20, 2015

Not using them as a stopping point just turning off the activation blocks cannoned to the speed controller to stop. As for turning the rail to stop haven't figure out the structure to that one yet.

jayman38 · Jul 20, 2015

Look at the following tutorials, specifically #3, basic rail movement

http://starmadedock.net/threads/video-series-learn-the-basics-of-rails.7276/

Easy-to-follow instructions on how to easily stop the moving entity on the rail. You'll be surprised how easy it is. Don't worry, they're short and sweet.

iceman6491 · Jul 20, 2015

Ithirahad said:
Uh, why are you guys using rail speed controllers as a rail stopping point? You can just turn the rail to the side and it'll stop until switched back to the front - and as an added bonus, if you have a strange setup, like one using multiple entities on one rail and a massive number of activators linked to a controller to fine-tune the speed of the entities, then it still works and nothing else gets messed up.

If you wanted speed easing then using a speed controller for stopping is ideal

Ju Ju Eyeball · Jul 20, 2015

iceman6491 said:
If you wanted speed easing then using a speed controller for stopping is ideal

Ok. I figured out how to select one block on the rail and turn it to stop the entity. So now I guess my suggestion is pointless.

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