The Powder Toy

Getting started with electronics?

  • Connor2weirdness     24th Jul 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    Hi gais...

    I want to get started with electronics in TPT, and my first project I think will be an electronic counter, and maybe a display in future. I have taken a look at a few saves and have a few ideas. However, I am wondering how people match up WIFIs so perfectly. One would assume copy and pasting but TPT kinda derps out when copying a single pixel and instead pastes 1 pixel + 3 air pixels. So I'm wondering, do they painstakingly heat and cool each WIFI individually to match them up, or do they have a trick up their sleeve? 

     

    Thanks, Connor!

  • Mrprocom     24th Jul 2015 Moderator 0 Permalink
    @Connor2weirdness (View Post)
    You can copy a particle, then press ctrl+v and use the arrow keys to move it by 1 pixel.
    You can also press r to rotate the copied item and I think ctrl+r to flip it.

    Anyway, use the PROP element, select temp and from there, you can change the wifi channel.
    All wifi channels are 100k apart from each other, so if you want the 4th wifi channel, you will need change the temp to 400, 500 for the 5th one, 600 for the 6th one and so on.

    There is also a useful script that makes that process quicker which is called set wifi v2v2 download it from http://starcatcher.us/scripts/#3

    Just put the lua file in your tpt folder, open up the console in tpt and type dofile("set wifi v2.lua") to load it. After that, select the WIFI element and click anywhere on the screen, a menu will show up asking for the wifi channel, type a number from 0 to 100 and press ok.

    Edit: Make sure that the game is unpaused for it to work.
    Edited once by Mrprocom. Last: 24th Jul 2015
  • Connor2weirdness     24th Jul 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    @Mrprocom

    Thanks a lot!

  • jacob2     24th Jul 2015 Member 0 Permalink
    @Mrprocom (View Post)
    Or you could download it from the script manager instead

    http://starcatcher.us/scripts/#1 save as autorun.lua next to TPT. Then open the script manager and download the script from there :p
  • RCAProduction     30th Jul 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    They ae 100 apart, not 100k >_> The max temp in the game is 10000 (10000-273.15 so that we have negatives :P)

  • Mrprocom     31st Jul 2015 Moderator 0 Permalink
    @RCAProduction (View Post)
    I didn't mean 100 thousands, I meant 100 kelvin (I should have specified it I guess).
  • Synergy     31st Jul 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    I myself heat WIFI individually. If you hold shift while applying HEAT, it will heat up faster.

     

    The WIFI are in groups of 100. (0-99, 100-199, 200-299, 300-399 ect). So they don't need to match exactly, just as long as they are in that range.

  • jacob1     31st Jul 2015 Developer 0 Permalink
    @Mrprocom (View Post)
    100k means 100 thousand (since k is short for thousand for some reason). 100K is 100 Kelvin, since K/C/F are always capitalized.
  • Sandwichlizard     31st Jul 2015 Member 0 Permalink

    here is my tutorial on how to program wifi.  id:1598759

     

    1598759View Save 1598759

     

    there is a link in that save to my electronics and logic save.  from there you can find other electronics tutorial saves.

     

    happy building!

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