Author Topic: "What's a relay?" (Read 966 times)

onyx6 · August 11, 2008, 10:59:13 PM

A relay is a message that is sent either to brick touching it or a named brick.
Firerelaynorth etc. will NOT activate the onrelay input of a brick not touching it:

This is how it's done:

� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � VVV� � direction of brick

How we do this is Onactivate/self/firerelaynorth
And on the other brick: Onrelay/output blah blah blah

But don't fret! A brick can send a relay to a brick thats not anywhere near it!
Onactivate/NAMED BRICK(Brick01)/firerelay...
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And on the desired brick that will receive the relay (Brick01 in our case.)
Onrelay/ will make it receive the input! This is useful for buttons activating things far away and such.
Post you're common uses for relays here please.

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Toadzard · August 11, 2008, 11:32:27 PM

I think relays can be used for loops, I could be wrong as I'm not sure how it's done.

Alure · August 11, 2008, 11:37:18 PM

I'm not a relay expert, but for loops, couldn't you just make the last brick in a sequence do this:
Onrelay - named brick (brick at start of sequence) - firerelaydirection?

laremere · August 11, 2008, 11:48:12 PM

Quote from: Toadzard on August 11, 2008, 11:32:27 PM

I think relays can be used for loops, I could be wrong as I'm not sure how it's done.

Yep.
1:onactivate/relay
2:onactivate/enableevent/5/check
3:onrelay/decramentprintcount/1
4:onrelay/playsound/some terrorizing beep
5:1000delay/onrelay/relay
6:onprintcountunderflow/enableevent/5/unchecked
7:unprintcountunderflow/spawn explosion/tankshell/2

All targets being self, and the print brick being at 9.

For example would make a simple ticking time bomb that goes off 10 seconds after activating.

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Author Topic: "What's a relay?" (Read 966 times)

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