[slabs] I'm a little sad that this didn't work

[Andir]

Please tell me it's possible/in the works?

I blame schema for giving me the idea in the patch notes (RE: "we looked at different options to display different states of a cargo area filling up") and I thought it would be cool to have a "progress bar" of slab states. Curious if the slabs worked like the rail states, I attempted to link the activation to a block and have it change based on the state of the block next to the activation. It doesn't work, but It would be interesting if it did.

 

[Mr.Steam]

Slabs are purely structural and are just thinner versions of standard building blocks. They are not affected by logic. (As far as I know.)

 

[Andir]

Yep, but the point I was making is that rotation is a state of the block... Just as is the slab size. I was kind of hoping that the blocks could be tied to activation modules like the rails and it would change it. Thus the point of the post.

 

[Dire Venom]

What you could do is just put the whole thing on a rail, and move it back and forth (with only 1 part being visible at a time)