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Now that pickup rails have been added it opens up a world of possibilities with what we can do with rails. fixing alot of the logistical headaches of rails colliding with its docked entity.
However we now have another problem. These rails still make use of the adjacent logic signal outputs that regular rails use. While that works for normal rails this can make creating logic driven launching/pick up systems either a nightmare to design or at the very least make them semi-automatic.
Theres no way to detect that a ship has successfully docked to a pick up rail thus initiating any kind of docking sequence. In order to this you would need to place a logic block next to one of the pick up rails which can be rather awkward since pick rails are invisible. also since pick up rails are intangible a ship is liable to collide with the floating logic block, breaking the system.
So i propose that Pick up Rails and Shootout Rails output a logic signal in the same manner as the activation gate: Through a C + V system.
The way it would work is that you would select a pick up rail with "C" then press "V" on the logic block of your choosing.
Then when a ship docks/passes over this pick up rail it will output a logic signal.
With this method of sending logic signals then more automated docking sequences can be made. for instance just docking to a pick up rail will send a signal to automatically open the hanger doors when you ship has reached a certain rail block then close the doors after your ship has docked to it resting spot.
However we now have another problem. These rails still make use of the adjacent logic signal outputs that regular rails use. While that works for normal rails this can make creating logic driven launching/pick up systems either a nightmare to design or at the very least make them semi-automatic.
Theres no way to detect that a ship has successfully docked to a pick up rail thus initiating any kind of docking sequence. In order to this you would need to place a logic block next to one of the pick up rails which can be rather awkward since pick rails are invisible. also since pick up rails are intangible a ship is liable to collide with the floating logic block, breaking the system.
So i propose that Pick up Rails and Shootout Rails output a logic signal in the same manner as the activation gate: Through a C + V system.
The way it would work is that you would select a pick up rail with "C" then press "V" on the logic block of your choosing.
Then when a ship docks/passes over this pick up rail it will output a logic signal.
With this method of sending logic signals then more automated docking sequences can be made. for instance just docking to a pick up rail will send a signal to automatically open the hanger doors when you ship has reached a certain rail block then close the doors after your ship has docked to it resting spot.
