[Suggestion] - Air Lifting Drones + Sliding Doors

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[Suggestion] - Air Lifting Drones + Sliding Doors #121

Open ingie opened 10 years ago

ingie commented 10 years ago

1 . Extra Puzzle Piece for Drones : Air Lift Entities

would allow drones to pick up an entity [ similar to OpenBlocks crane perhaps ] - thus making it possible for a drone to, say, herd cows or sheep into a pen.

2 . Sliding Doors

Any height [based on number of sliding door controllers]
Same upgrades as current pneumatic doors [look at/proximity/speed]
Any width [up to limit, but based on an inventory of "door panels" in each controller - similar to Tinkers' drawbridge, but limited to specific door panels]
Animated slide-out/in
Sound effect = Star Trek "whishh" door sound ;)
Vertical [as normal door] or Horizontal "trap door" orientation
Allow drones to pathfind through them

e.g. one could place single block horizontal or vertical trap doors to have a "rabbit warren" for drones to negotiate through floors of a base.

MineMaarten commented 10 years ago

Yes yes yes! :) 'Entity Import' and 'Entity Export' would be the names ;).
Hmm it sounds nice... Though as functionality wise it's covered by the Pneumatic Doors it isn't high on my priority list. Something in this that is nice to do soon is allow Drones to pathfind through Pneumatic Doors.

ingie commented 10 years ago

re: 1 - i think the entity should dangle, as it'd be funnier :)

re: 2 - fair point when the functionality is basically there... :)

a question then:

does your current API have enough hooks for me to make 2. as an addon? as i've been meaning to get into a project for 1.7ish and this would give me something to get my teeth into.

MineMaarten commented 10 years ago

The only hooks that would be missing is something that would allow Drones to pathfind through them, and respecting Security Stations (which Pneumatic Doors do). But I'll add hooks for them very soon :).

ingie commented 10 years ago

cool. i'll have a play sometime soon and report back... :)

MineMaarten commented 10 years ago

About the missing hooks: I've added support for them in version 1.2.2. Some registry hooks: https://github.com/MineMaarten/PneumaticCraft-API/blob/master/src/pneumaticCraft/api/PneumaticRegistry.java

ingie commented 10 years ago

awesome. consider the above post +1-ed, if github employed such a system ;)

MeshPL commented 9 years ago

What about drones being able to transport chests/some kind of crates? (What Amazon is planning to introduce to RL)