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If you want this behaviour, you can trivially do this with a combinator, although it will have a one tick delay.TrueMilli wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 1:03 pm I understand that in general, but it confused me when I wired "identical" collectors together, and they behaved differently - because of different individual contents.
Maybe add an info tooltip detailing the behavior? I'd like it even better if there was a checkbox to toggle the behavior (like for "count hand contents" and in other places).
Actually, it requires a non-trivial amount of combinators, as any cable connected to a collector will add the current contents again - so multiple levels of isolation are required (every collector needs to get the sum of all collectors as input which is not connected directly to another connector via the same wire).IsaacOscar wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 1:52 pmIf you want this behaviour, you can trivially do this with a combinator, although it will have a one tick delay.TrueMilli wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 1:03 pm I understand that in general, but it confused me when I wired "identical" collectors together, and they behaved differently - because of different individual contents.
Maybe add an info tooltip detailing the behavior? I'd like it even better if there was a checkbox to toggle the behavior (like for "count hand contents" and in other places).
Count hand contents however cannot be emulated with combinators, so it's more important.
Not knowing this was a feature, I made a circuit that enables you to use both anyway. If you provide a negative limit signal (say you want 10 metallic and 5 of the others, you'd send -10, -5, -5) then use an arithmetic to invert the sum of your control signal and the collector's read-contents with "each * -1, each", feeding it back to the collector with a different color wire.boskid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 12:16 am This is actually a feature as otherwise reading contents and set filters would have to be made an exclusive mode of operation (so either read content or set filters) and we really wanted to have both possible to enable at the same time. That means there are 2 entities that have slightly different input behavior: asteroid collector and assembling machine, which for most of the input stuff are ignoring their own output values.
It's not clear to me exactly what you're trying to do,TrueMilli wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 3:44 pmActually, it requires a non-trivial amount of combinators, as any cable connected to a collector will add the current contents again - so multiple levels of isolation are required (every collector needs to get the sum of all collectors as input which is not connected directly to another connector via the same wire).IsaacOscar wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 1:52 pmIf you want this behaviour, you can trivially do this with a combinator, although it will have a one tick delay.TrueMilli wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2024 1:03 pm I understand that in general, but it confused me when I wired "identical" collectors together, and they behaved differently - because of different individual contents.
Maybe add an info tooltip detailing the behavior? I'd like it even better if there was a checkbox to toggle the behavior (like for "count hand contents" and in other places).
Count hand contents however cannot be emulated with combinators, so it's more important.