Another notice: Theirs going to be a delay again... revver didnt reply... and I also didnt get an oppertunity to record today.. maybe tommorow.
Also... I've decided to try something:
MORE EXPRESSION GATE TUTORIALS???
I'm considering making more expression tutorials... not just in my own contraptions... but in your contraptions I want you to take a contraption which you either make often or is a speciality of yours that was made using regular chips, then adv dup save it (or normal save I don't care), and upload it online. If you do this, ill take your contraption and if it's decent, ill disect it and rebuild it inside an expression gate.
Why you may ask?
The reason is such:
Most people I've taught the expression gate to in a 1 on 1 session in game have gone away able to read an expression and figure out what it does... but unable to write their own.... the reason for this is two things...
1. People don't know what should and/or shouldn't be an input/output. This causes mass confusion because when someone can't figure out whether or not they need an input from something they don't have a clue what they're going to even be writing! This is why I do my inputs and outputs first to ensure that I know just what I'm coding.
2. People generally have a hard time at visualizing the code in an expression... even people who don't struggle with the first part (mentioned above) can find themselves having unnecessary inputs and outputs and extra lines that just arn't neccessary.
It's my goal to fix these issues for beginners and allow the community as a whole to transition from the basic chips to the pure code. Using an expression gate is almost always better than using another chip, even for a one step addition such as
Code:
@NAdd To 50
@IIn
@OOut
Out = In + 50
Even here it's useful as you can avoid a constant value chip. Using expressions should become the standard. If you look around the forums you'll find that the users who go around helping people such as me, fox, ergzay, cpf and many others use expression gates. It's something to get in the habbit of doing because regular chips are just messy and laggy, expressions are condensed and organised and allow helpers such as myself to instantly spot any issue you're having. Simply knowing the inputs and outputs of an expression to a contraption can allow us to figure out many conceptual elements of a contraption.....
Well I think I must've bored you all with this by now... so in short:
Just post saves of your contraptions and ill make a tutorial of them using an expression.
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