New Elevator Design (Rails + Wirless Logic)

[Sven_The_Slayer]

I did a little live streaming today and built an elevator in anticipation for when wireless logic was working. When I got home from work I checked back and much to my enjoyment I found a new dev release with working wireless logic!

 

[psteiner]

Cool doors. We will be waiting...

 

[KiloZulu]

I'm waiting for the actual update before playing with the rails, so I'll ask you. Would it be possible to mount a rail system on a rail system, both moving in the same direction? If it could be set up, you would double the speed of your elevator, as one slides along the length of the other that is also sliding. I used to do this with sliders in an old (favorite) game called RoboForge, stacking them multiple times to get crazy speeds.

 

[kupu]

Really impressive, awesome.

 

[Gamel]

challenge accepted, wait for me :D

 

[jayman38]

I'm waiting for the actual update before playing with the rails, so I'll ask you. Would it be possible to mount a rail system on a rail system, both moving in the same direction? If it could be set up, you would double the speed of your elevator, as one slides along the length of the other that is also sliding. I used to do this with sliders in an old (favorite) game called RoboForge, stacking them multiple times to get crazy speeds.

If the following post link is showing the animation straight out of the game, like I suspect, it is possible to mount multiple rails together for better speed and length.

http://starmadedock.net/threads/variable-speed-rails.6861/#post-98074

 

[KiloZulu]

By the same logic, you might then speed up turret rotation by using multiple rotating blocks?

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

If the following post link is showing the animation straight out of the game, like I suspect, it is possible to mount multiple rails together for better speed and length.

http://starmadedock.net/threads/variable-speed-rails.6861/#post-98074

Yes I was able to convert my simple elevator into a version using duel rails. It's not perfectly faster as my floors were odd numbers, so it moves at regular speed 1 out of every 5 meters. It is faster but the complexity really grows. I guess if I was building a rather large space station it might be worth it.

 

[Lancake]

Just to point this out, it's possible that having multiple rails on each other will not allow simultaneous movement on all of them. You could potentially do 10 rails on each other and make it go so fast that, if the ship on it has a high enough mass, it could cause serious problem in case of collisions.

The same concern about rotaters rotating at a fixed speed independent of dimension/mass of its docked ship, this will probably be changed too.

 

[JumpSuit]

I did a little live streaming today and built an elevator in anticipation for when wireless logic was working. When I got home from work I checked back and much to my enjoyment I found a new dev release with working wireless logic!

Can you release the Ultimate Elevator as a download I would like to implement it to use on my ship.