Advanced Weld Latch

**Tommyx50** · 04-26-2010

I cannot be bothered rewriting a full explanation, so I am just copying part of a post I did on facepunch, about Lyinginbedmon's mech.

The wiremod devs have really got to make the weld latch have more control, like being able to change what gets welded on-the-fly, using E2 or rangers, etc, so that you could make factorys with it and mean that you could use 1 weld latch for several things, so your mech wouldn't need 2 for each foot, and just a controllable so you can choose what foot gets welded (and to what). I might just make a thread for this on the wiremod forums.

And it needs full compatibility with stuff, so you could use things like target finders, findinSphere(), rangers, entity markers etc to choose what gets welded to what.

**jacoby6000** · 04-26-2010

I'm sure I could make one that uses an array input... It shouldn't be that hard if I just base it off of the one that's already there.

**Donkie** · 04-26-2010

And how would it work with a array input? Weld all to all?

**Divran** · 04-26-2010

On it!!

**Lyinginbedmon** · 04-26-2010

Near as my building experience shows, it'd probably be best if it just welded to the heaviest (highest mass) prop, and unwelded so-constrained props that are removed from the input array so you don't accidentally end up perma-welding stuff.

**Tommyx50** · 04-26-2010

Hi Lying. I am whee on Facepunch

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Though welding to the heaviest isn't always the best. You should be able to choose what gets welded/no-collided to what, so that it could work more complex. Not sure how it would work well though.

**jacoby6000** · 04-26-2010

Use smart constraints process :P

EDIT: or I could have closest props weld togather, then they all make a stability weld to the heaviest.

**Divran** · 04-27-2010

DONE!

Code:

http://divranspack.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/%20divranspack/Advanced%20Weld%20Latch
http://divranspack.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/%20divranspack/NoCollide%20Remover

I also made a NoCollide remover tool since there is currently no way to remove nocollides (undo doesn't work. Reload with nocollide tool doesn't work).

**dracotonisamond** · 04-27-2010

well hot shit divran. now just look into this. Post Procesing tool that would rock. also, it would force me to have to worship you for a very long time.