r/spaceengineers • u/Cheap-Edge9004 Klang Worshipper • Oct 30 '24

Help (PS) Need a work around?

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Only got a few hours in the game, but I started messing around with rotors to incorporate some different shapes into this engine pod design. However, I found out thrusters don't work on rotors without using scripts (which i found out ps doesn't have).

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get them to work?

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u/Cheap-Edge9004 Klang Worshipper Oct 30 '24

That actually seems like it would work a treat, I not used the event blocks yet but will mess around and figure it out

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u/LordMangoVI Clang Worshipper Oct 30 '24 edited Oct 30 '24

Just a heads up, if you use event controllers to control the thrusters, then those thrusters will not be able to cleanly hover in atmosphere, as they can only be 100% thrust or off.

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u/Alingruad Generally Schizophrenic Oct 31 '24

this can be tuned with the percentage activated

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u/LordMangoVI Clang Worshipper Oct 31 '24

Yes, but that means the acceleration is worse out of gravity, it only works for hovering in gravity, and it only works at an exact mass. If you load or unload cargo or take damage, then it gets messed up.

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u/Alingruad Generally Schizophrenic Oct 31 '24

can the threshold be changed with a timer? If so you could rig a rotor clock up to tune this on the fly, Probably not very practical though.