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[suggestion] Automated Drone Programmer #400

Closed Nevrage closed 9 years ago

Nevrage commented 9 years ago

hey,

I was thinking about a block into which you could write a program just like a regular programer, but instead it would apply automatically the said program and release these drones when provided a drone.

MineMaarten commented 9 years ago

Not sure if a dedicated block would be the way to do it. Instead I'm thinking of allowing Drones to use puzzle pieces supplied to an inventory adjacent to the Programmer, and adding a Redstone Behaviour tab in the Programmer, in which you can program a drone when a certain redstone signal is supplied. This, combined with another drone (or any other modded 'right click' simulator), should allow you to automatically program, and place drones.

AEnterprise commented 9 years ago

maybe something that would also be nice and is similar: a way to update the program of the drone remotely so you don't always need to pick it up?

Nevrage commented 9 years ago

I'm really not sure I have understood but that will allow drones to dynamically modify their own programs based on redstone signal and inventory state ? thats not bad but what I had in mind was something like an automated drone deployer if one gets killed. Or that block could be provided a drone by any other mod when something emits a redstone signal in the world and deploy it. ( a fake player can already deploy it but not restore a program ).

MineMaarten commented 9 years ago

Using the feature I'm planning to add, you can automatically program a Drone. You can then use this to create a set-up which can detect if a Drone has died (by checking if a Drone entity is within an area), program a Drone, and deploy it using some fake player.

@AEnterprise I was planning on doing something like that, to allow people to like 'debug' their drone programs on the fly.

AEnterprise commented 9 years ago

cool, that would programming and fixing drones so much easier

Nevrage commented 9 years ago

Sounds great, thank you. Though, is there a way to identify which drone has died ?

MineMaarten commented 9 years ago

Not really. You'll have to be creative, and like make every different drone cause a different 'heartbeat signal'. You could for example make the drone emit a redstone signal at a certain location. Or make it connect via CC and monitor via CC if the drone is connected (= alive).

Anyway, I've implemented both your feature, and @AEnterprise suggestion, this will close when released :)

AEnterprise commented 9 years ago

thanks alot @MineMaarten it will make testing and messing around with new programs so much easier