Developed by PhoenixX
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There are not many keyboard commands. This mod mostly makes use of LCDs.
Keyboard commands: Enter a command into the in game chat box, and it will perform an action.
Enter "/Lhelp" for a list of current commands. Enter "/Lhelp #" for more information on that particular command.
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Dynamic Destinations:
Create an LCD on a large station or ship you wish to use as a "travel point" NAME the LCD block: [destination] In the Public Title field insert the steam address of a space engineers server you wish players to be able to travel to - for example 221.121.159.238:27270 After the server address in the public title field put in a description of one or more words. Eg Ramblers Frontier What you should now see in your title field is: 221.121.159.238:27270 Ramblers Frontier
Whenever players come within 9 or so blocks (about the interior size of the default starter lemon ship) their screen will indicate they can travel to the "description" (as above) sector, and to type /depart to leave.
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You can Set World "boundries" so that if a player flies off the edge of the allowed world - they enter "interstellar space" (the empty void between "sectors" (servers)) and can travel to whatever "sector" (server) is assigned that direction.
If you imagine your entire game world as a large cube - facing from behind -
The left wall of the "cube" represents "Galactic West"
The Right wall is "Galactic East"
The far wall is "Galactic North"
The near wall is "Galactic South"
The top wall is "Galactic up"
The bottom "Galactic Down"
This allows each server to be a "sector" of a larger universe with 6 possible exits depending on your chosen direction.
This is really easy to visualise on a role playing website map by represending each individual
server as a cube. Line them all up together to form a larger cube.
Eg if you had 9 servers representing 9 locations in a "Galaxy" the map would look like this -
[Server 1] [Server 2] [Server 3]
[Server 4] [Server 5] [Server 6]
[Server 7] [Server 8] [Server 9]
On server 5, Players flying out the right size of your map would be sent to server 6. etc.
To use this feature: Create an LCD, eg - on a large station/ship block. It shouldn't need to be powered so you could simply place a single block underground on a planet and place an LCD on each side and set that represents each exit direction. Just keep in mind cleanup tools may delete unpowered grids.
NAME the LCD the desired direction of interstellar space. Eg. [GW] or [GE] or [GN] or [GS] or [GU] or [GD]
In the Public Title Field insert the steam address of the server you wish people to travel to, eg. 221.121.149.13:28790 After the server address put in a brief description eg. Lawless Void Sector
What you should now see in your title field is: 221.121.149.13:28790 Lawless Void Sector
So for example if you wish players who enter the "Galactic West" Interstellar space of your map to be able to travel to the Lawless Void Sector server your LCD should look like this:
LCD NAME: [GW] LCD Public Title: 221.121.149.13:28790 Lawless Void Sector
You can have more than one direction go to the same sector by simply adding more directions
with a space between.
Eg: [GW] [GN] [GS]
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Station Pop up message: (fun!)
Create another LCD on a large station/ship block. NAME the LCD block [station] use the keyword "popup" in the public title field then edit the public text with the pop up message you want to show when a player is near this LCD
Whenever a player comes within 50 or so blocks (about the interior size of a small station or the wing of a large station) the pop up message will appear on the players screen and output the text you specified.
You do NOT requre a destination LCD, you can use these popups simply as an automatic welcome message to visitors of your ship or space station!
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Notes
To increase compatability with non-english keyboards you can use [ ] or ( ) in your LCD Tags, and they are case insensitive.