How to Improve in Space Engineers | Clever Tips Ep. 2 

Timestamps: Edits: 0:40 Light Management: 2:49 Multiple Hinge Connections: 5:41 Neon Scaffolding: 7:26 Catwalk Connection: 10:31 Sensor+Gyro Animation 13:05

Time to build a ship with a gravity drive controlled by a dance pad.

+1 for Space Engineers Dance Dance Revolution.

this fuckin intro is absolutley glorius ive watched it 5 times

If the devs did more grated parts like a half grated plate. We could mix the stairs with it.

The sensor trick is absolutely brilliant

19:07 I was in a competition where you could not use a seat or turret. We had to fight each other with static weapons. This idea was my original plan but we did not have enough time to set it up.

Holy shit dude that room is totally next level. Your creativity is amazing. And creativity is intelligence having fun.

That alien space station kinda thing was the coolest build I've seen in space engineers so far!

Alright, so that last contraption gave me some goofy ideas for a combat ship. Just make the bridge look like a goofy disco room where everyone is just having a blast dancing to some music. But innocently they turn a entertainment cruiser/space yacht into a combat vessel.

that light and sensor trick is amazing... so many uses... thank u man...

some of the tips in this video. they radically change the game for me.

The dance pad is awesome. It makes me want to make a DJ function. Stepping on each sign to hear a different audio. And trying to mix them together. 😃 Imagine Dj face off contests in S.E.

Very well presented. Your instruction is is easy enough to follow for new players and, judging by other comments here, interesting enough for veteran Space Engineers. Having trained Airmen for nearly two decades, I know that's a rare quality for someone that makes video instruction.

Those neon tubes as suspension is genius

I've been playing SE sinse early 2014, its a great game. I am really loving your tips and tricks, you learn new stuff everyday in SE and having others, like yourself, to point you towards ideas is what SE is all about. Thanks for your work and ideas.

Over 2200 hours in the game and still learning some great tips, thanks to you!

those gyro+sensor auto rotation is awesome dude, It can work pretty well for surveillance cameras

There is a 'Renamer' mod that is a life saver for me when it comes to things like placing a dozen lights and renaming them all at the same time.

you save my life wih the light management, hangar doors im coming

Okay, glad I wasn't the only one that got Glados vibes from the robot arms that tracked him... Slight modifications and maybe a sounds and you have a perfect copy for Glados.

Always amazing content!

Cool man! Again, nice tips and tricks! Thanks for sharing!! :)

Great stuff in this series! Thanks for sharing.

Last one is amazing

ah yes, using some parts for unintended stuff, like neon tubes as actual metal pipes, is quite the bread and butter of building sandbox games, like in GMod or Spore. truely nice to have some interesting eye candy through such ways. also the gyroscope stuff was quite impressive, think i should try making some tracking spotlights as well!

And again great stuff

I remove light groups from the toolbar config too. This can really clean up a control seat setup as well. Everything you wouldn’t add to a cockpit/control seat toolbar. Examples are cargo containers, lights, assemblers, refineries, and gyros. Mostly anything in a group, the individual items done need to be controlled. I also setup all my main controls in the remote control block and add the control shortcut to any seat blocks/cockpits I plan to use. This allows consistency in setups. It allows you to exit the remote to control odd things you don’t want constantly on your flight controls hot bar like projectors and things using rotors/pistons/hinges that can take up a whole toolbar.

This is awesome, I just got my xbox updated after about a month of no internet and can't wait to get back into it with the ideas you just gave me. Thanks man great work and love the iron man robots, you could even make it so you can have one of those arms fallowing you for a cinematic like thing two. That's great

"words are hard sometimes" LOL! XD I know EXACTLY what you mean!

I’ve watched some of your videos and can’t thank you enough! Some great ideas as always! Keep them coming!

Thx for cool videos!!

Definitely will try making something using gyros-sensors combo

More Space Engineers goodness, thanks for sharing

great idea for the Neon Scaffold, will def use it in my builds, great video as always bud, keep them coming, enjoying them alot..... :)

Dude, you are an absolute genius when it comes to SE! I'm thinking of getting back into SE now. Thanks!

I can comfortably say this is one of the best compilation of tips ive seen

Your little swing arm at the very end with all the sensors, while I was playing on a playthrough here recently with nerfed jetpacks, I really wanted to build a "magic carpet" that was jetpack platform to get me up to build stuff. Basically used the exact same design you were showing there. It would be neat to see it actually built so there's an idea for some more content 😃

Just found your channel. Your creativity is insane, I get so many ideas from your videos! Thanks a lot, time to build some crazy stuff :)

incredible vid, the stuff you show is actually helpful and beneficial for building

That intro is hella awesome

Your channel is insane thanks, also gyro+sensor robot arms idea gives huge Glados feeling :D

- When I group lights and aren't going to control them individually anymore, I also hide them in the toolbar config. That way they aren't cluttering up your toolbar config menu with a bunch of lights that don't need to be there.I do the same for everything that only gets controlled as a group. - For lights and other groups, I also Name the groups "Lights - Ceiling" " "Lights - Entrance" "Drill - Head" "Drill - Pistons" etc. Its just a neat way to name groups so you always know what your looking at and they are Alphabetically sorted.

Dude. I'm only on episode 2 and you're absolutely blowing my mind with these genius ideas

All of these seem wonderful but, I think, the catwalk w half stairs is fantastic!

Seriously you are legendary. You have the best and craziest builds😄

Amzing stuff really, i'm learning a lot of stuff thanks!

Ive got well over a thousand hours into this game and yet i keep learning so much from these videos! also that intro is incredibly cool

Incredible

The new low cover wall works great as the platform for beside the half stairs, and looks more natural than the railing.

Awesome, thx !

Ooookaaay, that's a clever intro. :)

Great Vid man!

Woooow I've never considered using sensors as a more organic control system, and the intro is ace. and the project spinning core and lights. So many idea :o

Great tips. I like how you went back and recapped your older tips with updated information. You should ALWAYS do that when you have something to add. Also, if you throw a link on the screen, it's a great way to get people to watch your previous videos. Here are my additions. 1. Lighting: default white (255,255,255) RGB can be a little harsh. Using a shade of grey can soften the light. To get grey, just enter a lower value for the RGB with equal values like (200,200,200) or (125,125,15), etc. Then adjust the intensity to taste. 2. Your DDR foot controls are a great idea. Where that would really shine would be for pure elevator platforms, especially those that transfer crew/equipment from landed spaceship to a planetary surface. The distance isn't always the same. 3. The half-width staircases are great. But have to be perfectly aligned with gravity. If they are slightly rotated left or right the avatar might get hung up on them and not able to climb or descend. If you put them on a spaceship meant to get into natural gravity or dock with something else using a gravity generator with a field that spills into your grid, you will have issues. 4. Corner lights are also great for connecting stairs or any other blocks where a 90 degree attachment is desired. They are also vanilla.

Something to do with grouping for things like lights. Instead of naming them "ceiling lights" and "floor lights" and "entrance lights", reverse the name order so its "lights - ceiling" and "light - floor" ect. This way the lights groups are all clustered together instead of spread out alphabetically. Makes for a more organized and usable control panel.

oh my god your base!! I gotta play right now and up my game!!

Awesome videos. Heres a thing I found with sensors: They cannot detect a subgrid of the grid they are attached to, you can take advantage of this "feature" when creating compact hangars or drone bays. Set up a sensor with an area that includes where your ship docks to the connector. When you lock your connector as far as the sensor is concerned the ship is no longer there. That way you can have automatic hangar doors close to the ship but still have them sensor controlled.

Yo that intro is wicked

The lighting thing is awsome. Just found you and subscribed because of it. Just wish I could figure out those awsome lights. My personal play thru is really dark and having my lights follow me around while working would be nice.

Haha, and here I thought I had changed my keybind for teleporting! "then you forget where they are" so you mean you don't just memorize exactly where every light is? Quick, where's light 42? Aw, too slow :). Great content as always! Oh that light panning is epic!

I have been playing for a short amount of time and wanted to have a few tips. So glad I found your videos! Placing a sensor infront and behind my doors was one of the first things I did, because I'm way to lazy to open them manually. And I felt really clever with that (I have about 12h in my current survival run, have my first mining ship and scout ship - so I'm quite a beginner). But watching your setup was amazing! I'll try the spotlights and maybe I'll build my only little R2D2 that'll follow me around (if that's even possible)

@BlackArmor If Space Engineers was a more Popular game, I'm 100% sure you would get paid a metric ton of credits for what you're doing. You truly put the "Engineer" in Space Engineers, always a great inspiration. Keep up the great work, Greetings from Switzerland

more people need to see your videos!!! this helps so much

A hot tip about light management, or management of any kind in the K menu. Don't name things "ceiling lights" That gets messy fast. Instead make use of the alphabetical order "Lights - [room] - Ceiling". If you name everything like this your K menu will be incredibly easy to navigate and use.

Nice. Could you make a video about ship/base systems and internals? How do you plan or design your builds? Do you work on the piping or the shell first?

Nice intro! RU-vid was damn right recommending that video to me!

Something I've done to support stairs and give it the illusion of being supported is using railing parts. Specifically the angled railing. so, in your demonstration, you have the stairs off the wall, then below that you'd put a angle railing so that one end was at bottom of those stairs and the other against the wall. the next stairs will then connect

I never knew about the tic marks on the hinges. Thanks

For places you want to still use the Corner LCD to glue parts together, try using the Corner Light instead. It looks about the same in the first build state and only costs 25 PCU.

A DDR controlled ship... That sounds absurdly complex and exceptionally silly.... Somebody give W4stedspace this idea! He'd totally do it!

You made Your own version of GLADOS. It's no wonder it's creepy to you. IT wants to kill you.

ty for them tips o/

Stuff we already might know about but never think to put to use haha. I made 'homing' missiles using 4 sensors in a quadrant type system and gyros, basically like your spot light. Never thought beyond to use for non weapon stuff. Good stuff and inspiration for us.

fun fact. , . move left and right through tool bars

Just saw some of your work on reddit! Didn't realize you had a Channel too! Here have a follow 💪

Could you please explain the design of the sensor and gyro headlight on 14:02 in a little more detail? ^^

Time to hook up the broadside cannons to a DDR mat.

That's so nice. For beginners, aswell as experienced... after a little more than 1000 hours in game I feel very inspired. If I want a tutorial I'd still check Splitsie, but I'll always check your chanel for inspiration. Massive thanks!! you're bringing back the curiosity and fun to the game. Well... now excuse me. Have to get that follow-light into my yard😍 ...wonder if one could implement that to a drone...🤔 ...I'll let u know😅

The dark neon tubes is a great idea. I'll have to use them. I tend to bright neon tubes instead of lights for two reasons. First the PCU value and second because they don't clutter up my terminal.

in the early days of Space Engineers, I used a similar concept of the sensors to build a scriptless. homing missile that would constantly follow a ship

Yay! more voice videos from the "not singer" guy! :p

Attach one of your 'neon light/tube' struts to the rail on your half-catwalk. Fills in the gap pretty well.

More pls!

Note on the PCU cost for LCDs. AFAIK a functional block will only consume it’s full PCU value if it’s completely constructed, so if you grind it below function to any frame it’ll act like a non-functional block and only consume 1 PCU.

The catwalk stairs trick changed my life.

Genius

The sensor tracking works better if you let it command the rotor instead of a gyro. The gyro also adds alot of weight making it nose heavy. If you use the center of mass function in the info tab and balance everything so that it is directly into the hinge or the centerline of the rotor. It can be very quick (no centrifugale force to start or stop). It even can track small ships and engage it without scripts As long it is balanced Bit Bever thought it could be done with gyros looks alot smoother then using rotors

You made a Realy good Tips Series and i took a lot of it into my own SE World or Planned to used it ^^ but sadly i´m not an expert in SE so i struggle to build the Gyro+Sensors combi by myself :( and i can´t find any information to do it, so i ask you if you can make a quick tutorial about it or somethink else... it´s would help me a lot so thank you or someone else who can help me here out ^^

Noice!!

12:35, Hooray for the new armor panels, am I right? :D

Have you tried the sensor system for a helper drone? Like maybe one that follows you for extra cargo space and such?

Used the gyro sensors to build canons on my ship. They do an ok job, firing is done on player control though

3:23 No. Don't put them in a group called "ceiling lights" because when you have "hangar lights" and "exterior lights", you have to look through your whole group list to find them. To make it easier, name them "Lights: Ceiling," "Lights: Hangar," and "Lights: Exterior" so they're all grouped together in the L section. The same applies for turrets. Do "Turrets: Gatling" or "Turrets: Missile" to keep them together

Ha! You made Ravens!

No way bro - you got me to think about these sensors - i can make a ship with these sensors and make it ready, when i come closer - it's awesome Or i can make something like alien Tech - i can make a building, which will open if see creator around n-meters of building - it's awesome Make more tutorials - it's awesome!

Please could you make a build tutorial on those security lights with Gyro's

my trick for lights or other blocks if I have no idea which one it is in control panel, I just cut this a little bit with grinder, then the thing I am looking for shows as Incomplete in control panel

I wonder if you could use the "I see you" system to make tracking solar panels, if you replaced "see player" with like energy gained by solar panels or something

I'd love to see you do a lets play!