Top 5 Survival Uses of the Event Controller

Подписаться 2,1 тыс.

Просмотров 35 тыс.

50% 1

🚀 In this Space Engineers guide, I'll be showing you some amazing ways to automate your Space Engineers base with the latest Space Engineers Automatons update. We'll cover five incredible tips, starting with automated lighting for your landing pad, making it easier to connect to the connector. 💡Next up, we'll use a Solar Tower to turn on and off lights around the base. 🌞Our third tip will show you how to know when to collect hydrogen with a beacon. And, in our fourth tip, we'll teach you how to save your ears from all that engine noise by turning engines off when your batteries are charged. 🔋Last but not least, we'll show you how to use Event Controllers to make your base feel more alive and get the most out of your resources in this Space Engineers tutorial. 🌟
🎮 Twitch: / gleebtorin
💬 Discord: / discord
🎁 Humble Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/store?pa...
😇 It's an affiliate link, so you'll support charity and future content!
Chapters
Tip 1 - 00:12
Tip 2 - 01:49
Tip 3 - 02:47
Tip 4 - 03:56
Tip 5 - 04:42

Игры

Опубликовано:

22 апр 2023

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 131

@GleebTorin 4 месяца назад

Thank you very much to @ChozoSR388 for pointing out that my maths was wrong on the gas tank alert tip. There's no need to divide by 4 as I did here, as that just happens naturally by virtue of the fact that there's 4 tanks. If you have any corrections, please let me know, and I'll do my best to get those corrections published.

@LucasMassey Год назад

These are some really useful examples of the Event Controller in action. Well done!

@GleebTorin Год назад

Glad it's helpful! Has it sparked any cool ideas for your own bases?

@LucasMassey Год назад

@@GleebTorin Haven’t dug my claws too deep into it yet myself, but I may at some point soon!

@tytonovaehollandiae1278 Год назад

I find that one of the best uses is for limiting wastage of power/hydrogen when thrusting. If the event controller is set to turn forward thrust off at 99+m/s it prevents you from thrusting while already at full speed. This is most useful when launching rockets to space with thrust override on as it will do so with the minimal amount of hydrogen used.

@GleebTorin Год назад

Oh, now there's a solution to the problem that I hadn't thought of. I was trying to think of ways to make it so that it would thrust automatically for me, but this way would involve far less faffing about.

@marcgarrett4401 Год назад

My event controller functions so far: *Solar controller *Turn on one hour timer and a small reactor when batteries are low (and gate) *Turn on an indicator light when solar panels output is 50 percent (and gate used) *Close doors five seconds after being opened.

@GleebTorin Год назад

I never thought about having it close doors :O

@marcgarrett4401 Год назад

@@GleebTorin I'm playing offline, so I've got no scripts availability. It was kinda necessary for me.

@mementomori5580 Год назад

@@marcgarrett4401 How does playing offline mean that you have no scripts available? Especially when you play offline you can have scripts. It's when you play online that it depends on the server whether or not you have scripts available.

@paulgreen7138 Год назад

Could be on console we can't use scripts unless on a server.

@Jeremy9697 Год назад

@@mementomori5580 may not have online access at all

@graymouser1 Год назад

@1:09, we already know: It's never ok to press 'P'. P ist verboten.

@ctsquad501st3 Год назад

I was looking for this

@Sir_Hermit Год назад

My thoughts exactly

@graymouser1 Год назад

@@Sir_Hermit it's a long standing joke between Gleeb and I. I protest him using the P key for parking, and he ignores me entirely.

@Sir_Hermit Год назад

@@graymouser1 fair enough, I’m new to the Channel 😄

$@targard.quantumfrack6854$

@targard.quantumfrack6854 Год назад

Why?

@Expression2.0 Год назад

Literally haven’t seen a player use P for connectors since like early access of SE lmao brings me back to the good old days

$@targard.quantumfrack6854$

@targard.quantumfrack6854 Год назад

... I still do that, what do you do instead?

@goat-eyes 6 месяцев назад

@@targard.quantumfrack6854 Assign Switch Lock to the Connector/Gear

@w.i.t.c.h.q.u.e.e.n 3 месяца назад

@@targard.quantumfrack6854 Switch Lock in hot bar.

@jaybirdjargon 3 месяца назад

@@targard.quantumfrack6854 Switch Lock on Connector is how I do it

@BNETT21 Год назад

Nice. I like the little nuggets of info sprinkled in that players may not already know.

@GleebTorin Год назад

Glad you're getting some use out of it! :D

@christiansrensen3810 Год назад

Great. Here a few free tricks When you ship connects, it starts the hydrogen engine, for quick recharge... And another that shuts off the engine when is full. Quicker recharge.

@GleebTorin Год назад

Ooh, good call.

@SpenceVan598 Год назад

Something I always use on my ships is to set batteries to recharge when connector connected is true and auto on when false. Makes sure your ship batteries are always charged when docked and prevents your base from pulling power from your ships.

@SwordOfJustice2007 Год назад

Great video. You've got a good teaching style.

@amyskippy Год назад

This is great, I'd love to work on a set of common systems to include in bases and ships, so I know what I want and which ones I can set up. I love the ideas here!

@GleebTorin Год назад

Coming up with ideas on the spot can be a pain, so that sounds like I good idea!

@Skyben2 Год назад

Best Event-Controller Guide I've seen so far! /cheers

@party4lifedude Год назад

Now I know what the AND option is used for. I'll have to slightly tweak my drone's ammunition monitoring system so they only return when all of the ammo is gone and not just the ammo that is stored in their weapons. Just in case there is a delay between the gun running out of ammo and pulling more from the cargo containers. I'm not entirely sure if that happens, but it's good to know this anyways.

@thomasbanbury1335 Год назад

Excellent vid, best explainer about the event controller ive seen

@GleebTorin Год назад

Thanks! I've had a lot of people say similar things, I'm glad it's helpful beyond just the ideas.

@EdrickV Год назад

My #1 use for event controllers: Automating vehicle startup/shutdown sequences. (Battery recharge on/off, thrusters on/off, gyros on/off, lights on/off, etc.) Most complicated use: A power management system that would turn hydrogen engines on and set batteries to recharge as long as there's plenty of gas, and shut the hydrogen engines down before they run out of gas, so they can be restarted without needing another power source. (Required a custom AND gate made of connector pairs since the regular AND option can only handle one type of input. AKA you can't do: if battery storage < 50% AND hydrogen engine tank filled > 50%, then turn hydrogen engines on.)

@GleebTorin Год назад

Oh god, yes, first thing I did with my smaller craft that don't produce their own power was have them recharge when they're docked.

@billwilliamson1506 Год назад

I’ve already experimented with that last tip and found that using a light/beacon combo helps to signal whether or not your mining outpost is full. I have a drone which ferries the ore to the refining base at a constant rate. You can also use two pistons for an ore Derrick, where it extends the piston for a set time using a timer block downward every time another piston, the one controlling the x axis, reaches its furthest extent. That way a row of drills scrapes across the ground, then once it reaches its zenith, retracts at the same time the y piston extends downward a set amount. That combined with a rotor beneath it all allows you to set up a rotating mining platform

@GleebTorin Год назад

Those are some amazing ideas. I'm glad to hear someone's taking my ideas and running with them! 😊

@matthewcozon4686 Год назад

Lots of good ideas here, thanks. Also really like the design of this base

@GleebTorin Год назад

Thanks! I always seem to put more into the look of my designs in creative.

@scorpionkiller19 Год назад

I've wanted to make a video on this stuff but your ideas are way better than mine! Great work!

@archaeologistify Год назад

My fav use of Event Controller + AI blocks is being able to return from a trip with my ship, exit near base without fully braking and the ship just automatically docks perfectly (better than me due to it being immune to server desync using AI blocks)

@santiagovidal4497 5 дней назад

@@archaeologistify woah, didn’t know you could do that, that’s awesome

@The_Russ Год назад

This is a very informative video brother!

@5kellDarkes Год назад

I like using them for my ice drilling too but I have two to monitor capacity, one for reaching 100% to shut off then a second one at less than 30% to fire back to life so the drills don't toggle so much. I also like adding AI flight to the Hydrogen delivery drone so it can auto haul the fuel to the main base.

@KTpotato Год назад

Amazing!

@mediocreman2 Год назад

Very cool. I was wondering about setting up the solar panels to turn off my landing pad lights. Only issue is finding that perfect balance because there can be storms that cut the visibility of the landing pad hugely on approach, but the panels might still get too much light to turn the lights on.

@mworld Год назад

I found it better to trigger a timer block to take care of the hinge reverse and piston extending. In this way you get the normal amount of 0.5m extension of the piston.

@vasianduban9995 Год назад

dam i wanted to make mining rig without scripts for a while and now it possible and super easy , this update is amazing

@GleebTorin Год назад

This is just the surface, there's so much that can be done now!

@ceilyurie856 Год назад

I never use p to dock, and I just ahve a ventral camera and line up to a marking

@GleebTorin Год назад

Haha, I love teasing people about pressing P. People are contantly scared of it, and with good reason. It's fixed enough to be usable now, at least.

@pedropimenta896 4 месяца назад

Best update IMO

@Altaree1 Год назад

You need to make a video on reducing the dangers of ‘p’. Or disproving the superstition.

@GleebTorin Год назад

Already in the works. ;)

@ColdIronHalo Год назад

What a really nice video .. even i could learn this with this video. :D

@VirtualHolocaust 4 месяца назад

Ok buddy thanks for the tips. Is the left side (1st slot) always a 1 and the right side (2nd slot) always a 0?

@puppets1979 10 месяцев назад

I like the first one, but I prefer to just make an automated landing computer on what ever ship I am using so I do not even need to bother aligning.

@elijahcrom9600 5 месяцев назад

Is there any way to change the increment on 'increase maximum distance' for the drill? Mine seems to just jump from 0 to 10 when it triggers.

@VirtualHolocaust 4 месяца назад

why dont you have a piston bedhin the drill bit?

@jasongoodrich1 Год назад

My menu looks like a rainbow

@GleebTorin Год назад

🎶All the Pistons of the rainbow~🎵

@joby-wankenobinolan3428 Год назад

Ngl that drill setup is amazing

@GleebTorin Год назад

Glad you like it. It could definitely be improved, but it's a good start!

@BlueEclipse2305 Год назад

I Worked out AND Only applies for TRUE, Not for False. So if true and false are important, use 2 Event controllers with opposite states. For me, this was charging 2 batteries when only one or more was low, and stopping when the Both were full (over 95%)

@GleebTorin Год назад

Oh, I never thought about that. I'm glad you found a solution. 😊

@BlueEclipse2305 Год назад

@@GleebTorin I tested with 2 pistons and a light. Both piston needed to be extended to turn on the light, but only 1 retracted to turn it off (using 1 event controller)

@nebelparderde4503 11 месяцев назад

If I use Connector ready to lock the Connector stays in the ready to lock mode after the first time being connected resulting in the lights staying on. Any ideas how to fix that?

@GleebTorin 11 месяцев назад

This bug has been reported to Keen, I'm sure a fix is coming. :)

@C-Squad3 3 месяца назад

Just curious, I don’t know much about the event controllers, but on you auto drilling, you can set the drills on/off and the hinges? Again still learning but didn’t think you can put 2 different conditions on an event controller

@GleebTorin 3 месяца назад

You absolutely can! You can just change the hotbar when assigning actions, just like when you change hotbars when walking around or flying a ship. Check out this video to see how: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9-wAfu_hKLs.html

@C-Squad3 3 месяца назад

@@GleebTorin awesome and thank you! Actually figured that out shortly after writing my original message smh lol

@Heatx79 Год назад

It’s never “ok” to press P

@pedropimenta896 4 месяца назад

They can update and fix and patch the game as much as they can; even if the game becomes perfect, veterans are too traumatized to ever trust using P ever again. I know I won't.

@w.i.t.c.h.q.u.e.e.n 3 месяца назад

Except for color picking 😶

@YazourAU Год назад

These Green docking lights don't ever switch off. The end state trigger for the EC's never correctly triggers when you take off.

@GleebTorin Год назад

Yup, that's a bug, it has been reported. :/

@cjs8452 Год назад

Good to know! I've been trying to figure out why they don't turn off. Even tried triggering a timer block.

@FUT-Franklin Год назад

So the second slot in the event controller will activate when the value is false?

@GleebTorin Год назад

Exactly so! :)

@FUT-Franklin Год назад

@@GleebTorin why doesn't it specify that in game?

@GleebTorin Год назад

@@FUT-Franklin That's a very good question. There's other blocks with the same behaviour, and they don't have anything to indicate it either.

@FUT-Franklin Год назад

@@GleebTorin Well regardless thanks for letting us know, I just thought it was a second positive slot which explains why my auto hauler doesn't work 💀😂

@Ofjkk 4 месяца назад

music is a bit loud but otherwise great vid

@Balhazarr 10 месяцев назад

How to add another piston for those you presented but also going down a little every 180degree?

@GleebTorin 10 месяцев назад

I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Lemme know what you're trying to do, well see if we can find you a solution.

@Balhazarr 10 месяцев назад

@@GleebTorin Id like to extend my pistons not only on X axis but also Y axis, after hitting 90 or -90degree

@GleebTorin 10 месяцев назад

@@Balhazarr Pistons can only extend in a single direction I'm afraid.

@Balhazarr 10 месяцев назад

@@GleebTorin i know i know, but I wanted the piston to lengthen slightly and the other one to go down at the same time as the arm was fully rotated, as in your video

@GleebTorin 10 месяцев назад

@@Balhazarr Oh, you want to mine down as well as side-to-side? That's a bit more doable. Unfortunately, there's not really a way of counting with the automation systems in SE, so it's more complex. I'll give it a think, see what we can do. 😊

@ara8692 Год назад

Wait A battery on your base that changes from recharge on off to normal as soon as your ship docks sounds like you could recharge your ship with this system rly quickly

@GleebTorin Год назад

I've never thought of doing it that way, I usually have the ship that's docking do the charging.

@ara8692 Год назад

@@GleebTorin yes but I think the battery on the base is always there but if you have a few ships then you would need an separate event controller for each ship

@Solimala Год назад

Event controllers are so strong! Let me further automate and fool-proof my infinite vertical drill, much more precise timings that also account for any unforeseens (such as pistons not extending within the timer due to collision). Also let me setup a failsafe subroutine for when the one merge block glitches out (se be se) and one for inventory transfer Something else I've done is setup various warnings for my ships, such as one for when hydrogen drops below a certain %. I love being fed all the operational data easily Another idea I have (for MP) is an automated ship or drone assembly plant that'll place completed ships on a hangar to put into storage Definitely think they can almost completely replace the timer function of timer blocks, making timer blocks more of a nesting tool for multiple actions to use with event controllers. Excited to see what else I can make with them!

@GG64du02 Год назад

Meanwhile, me, using a paint cross on the connector and have my connector in the cockpit's toolbar.

@GleebTorin Год назад

Yeah, I've used that technique before. I like to offset the cross so that I can point my cockpit at it.

@shprotmem Год назад

Спс

@GleebTorin Год назад

Пожалуйста!

@deanzap3658 Год назад

How do u chane color

@GleebTorin Год назад

Change colour of what?

@ChozoSR388 4 месяца назад

I don't know if this is due to a re-balance that Keen did or what, but that 1.25% threshold for the Hydrogen tanks equaling out to 3 million liters of stored hydrogen is no longer the case; I apply the same settings to my tank monitoring event controller, and what I end up storing is a total of 750,008L between all 4 tanks It's only when I increase the desired threshold of each tank to 5% that I get 3 million liters (3,000,032L, to be precise). Genuinely trying to be helpful here, because your napkin math was off by a factor of 4.

@GleebTorin 4 месяца назад

Hey Chozo! Thanks so much for reaching out to me, making sure that information is correct is an important endeavour, so I appreciate the effort. That said, I'm confident that the maths checks out. One Large Grid Large Hydrogen Tank can contain 15,000,000 litres of hydrogen. The base has 4 tanks, and so can contain 60,000,000 litres. 3,000,000 is 5% of 60,000,000. Divide 3,000,000 and 5% by 4, as we're splitting this across 4 tanks, and you get 750,000 and 1.25%. If you were checking this out in vanilla, with the original starting multipliers, then this should hold true. When looking at the statistics in the control panel, bear in mind that it doesn't show grid-wide totals, only what's in that block, which could give the appearance of the math being off by 4, as we're splitting the contents across 4 tanks. Again, thanks for raising this, it's good to see people making sure that the right info is out there, I really appreciate it.

@ChozoSR388 4 месяца назад

@@GleebTorinYeah, see, that's the thing; I'm running the world all default settings, no mods. and when I run the Event Controller at a 1.25% threshold, each tank caps out (at 1.25%) with only ~187.5kL. That's why I mentioned the potential of another re-balance. I had to bump the threshold up to 5% to get the desired 750kL per tank.

@ChozoSR388 4 месяца назад

@@GleebTorinActually, I think I see where the problem lies here; where 3,000,000L IS indeed 5% of 60,000,000L, and 1.25% of 60,000,000L is indeed 750,000L, 750,000L is ALSO 5% of 15,000,000. So, while it may be 1.25% of 60 million, it's actually 5% of 15 million, which is the target threshold for each tank. 1.25% of each tank is only 187,500L. So, even though your math is correct, unintuitively, you still have to multiply by 4 for the smaller volume of each tank to get the 1.25% for the larger volume of the total of all the tanks. Long story short, the threshold is both 1.25% of the total volume _and_ 5% of each individual tank. Edited for legibility.

@GleebTorin 4 месяца назад

@@ChozoSR388 Exactly so! That's why I divide by 4 in my original calculations. 🤓

@ChozoSR388 4 месяца назад

@@GleebTorinRight, but you have to set the threshold to 5% in the Event Controller, or you only get a quarter of the 3 million liters you're expecting. That's the point I've been trying to make; you have to set the threshold to 5%, not 1.25%, because even though you and I both know that 750,000 is 1.25% of 60,000,000, the Event controller assumes you mean 1.25% of 15,000,000 even when AND is checked, because it looks at the volume of each tank. not the combined total volume of all the tanks. Basically, it doesn't see 60,000,000 like you or I would because all 4 tanks are selected, it sees 4 instances of 15,000,000. So, you have to use the percentage you want each tank filled to, not the percentage of the total volume, which in this case, 5% of 15,000,000 is 750,000, so the threshold is 5%, not 1.25% of 60,000,000, which, even though that IS the same number, it's not what the Event Controller is looking for.

@itllBuffGaming Год назад

The one that has a beacon turned on to “come and collect” is there a way to see that marker pop up from a space station? Beacons un modded can only broadcast so far, I know markers can go infinite distance, but don’t think you can turn those in by controller can you?

@GleebTorin Год назад

An antenna in Space Engineers will transmit any signals it detects, including beacons. This signal can be relayed by other antennas, allowing you to extend the range across massive distances. You can also use laser antennas for even longer-range transmissions.

@itllBuffGaming Год назад

@@GleebTorin ohhhh! I didn’t think about using them as relays. That makes sense, appreciate it! Goes to show 400 hours in the game still isn’t enough 🤣

@GleebTorin Год назад

@@itllBuffGaming I'm still learning things at 3700 hours!

@TalesOfWar 9 месяцев назад

For landing and connecting I've used the simple method of "shove a camera pointing at the connect a few blocks back" method lol. There's a bottom mounted camera mod (literally a flipped version of the top mounted one they added) that does the trick if you want to keep things nice and clean. I do like the landing pad lighting up like a christmas tree though!

@juriaanromkes7558 Год назад

When i setup the hinge drill setup it doesnt work, hinge has brake, 2 event controllers, -90 and 90 degrees (less then and greater then) both check hinge angle but action "reverse" isnt executed.

@GleebTorin Год назад

That's very strange. There's a couple of things I'd check. First, make sure you have greater than on the +90 controller, and less than on the -90 controller. I made that mistake when recording this. >.< Second thing, Space Engineers can be weird some times, so changing to -89 and +89 might fix it. If that doesn't work, I could try having a look myself. I'm on discord, link is on my channel page. Edit: Just remembered, the event controller will only trigger when it first changes. After that, it will wait for it to change back before firing again. This means that you can't start the drill at +90 or -90 degrees.

@kayaking_bigfoot361 6 месяцев назад

Lies NEVER HIT P! lol good video tho but NEVER HIT P!🤣

@o.r.d.y3670 Год назад

First

@mworld Год назад

**ahum** In SE we don't use P :)

@Hscaper 6 дней назад

Don’t hit P EVER! Set a switch lock connector on your hot bar

@GleebTorin 6 дней назад

@@Hscaper P works just fine for me! 🤔

@Hscaper 6 дней назад

@@GleebTorin unless you have other connectors holding things. Best practice is to set the specific one you want or disable all the others used for parking

@GleebTorin 2 дня назад

@@Hscaper Exactly! Not a problem, so long as you set things right :)

@MrKhaled306 4 месяца назад

I hope in the future you speak slower and demonstrate more by showing at least all the steps throughly and use names of the things you use specifically Im struggling to keep up with you I have to repeat the video multiple times until i get you 80%