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Codius's Basic Piston Control

My first Space Engineers script. Spent around 6 hours trying to get my IDE working and figuring out how to script for this game.

It controls the pistons in a given block group via jump and crouch.
It looks for a group called "ControlPistons" and affects all pistons in that group. The group name can be easily changed in the code.

You can control the extend and retract speeds using the two speed variables near the top of the file. You can also reverse the controls by changing the signs of the variables by adding/removing the negative sign for each one.

It will check for a new usable control block, being the first occupied cockpit or control station capable of controlling the vehicle when the current one is not occupied, and update the list of pistons every 10 seconds. The timer can be seen in the control panel alongside the piston group and controller status. On load, it will set the first control block it finds to the controller temporarily for convenience.

Made at the request of Cassius Faux. https://steamproxy.com/id/rindalthi/
Go have a look at his Workshop uploads. He makes some really amazing things.



-Have speed of the pistons taken from somewhere other than the code itself.
-Have the name of the piston group taken from somewhere other than the code itself.