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Author Topic: Pressure Plate Logic: How Heavy is Water?  (Read 690 times)

Silverbel

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Pressure Plate Logic: How Heavy is Water?
« on: October 22, 2010, 01:11:10 am »
Let's say I set up a pressure plate in the middle of a water room that opens a floodgate when the water on the plate is up to [5/7]

I am just working on a loose idea, but can I do this and what is the proper weight setting?
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Re: Pressure Plate Logic: How Heavy is Water?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2010, 01:15:23 am »
Isn't there a menu to set what weights and things set it off when you build a pressure plate? I've never actually used them for lack of need but I think that's the way it works.
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Re: Pressure Plate Logic: How Heavy is Water?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2010, 01:19:31 am »
like Fanklok, i haven't used them, but posts I've seen say you can set the plate to trigger on n/7 water (or magma) ...
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Re: Pressure Plate Logic: How Heavy is Water?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2010, 01:39:35 am »
Quote from: krenshala on October 22, 2010, 01:19:31 am
like Fanklok, i haven't used them, but posts I've seen say you can set the plate to trigger on n/7 water (or magma) ...
OK, that's handy.
The creature triggers use a sort of "weight number" so I was worried that I would need to know how much water weighed, but just using n/7 is easy.
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Re: Pressure Plate Logic: How Heavy is Water?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2010, 02:18:36 am »
Quote from: Silverbel on October 22, 2010, 01:39:35 am
Quote from: krenshala on October 22, 2010, 01:19:31 am
like Fanklok, i haven't used them, but posts I've seen say you can set the plate to trigger on n/7 water (or magma) ...
OK, that's handy.
The creature triggers use a sort of "weight number" so I was worried that I would need to know how much water weighed, but just using n/7 is easy.

Yup.

In theory I think you can actually have three different settings that don't link up at all (like 1/7 to 3/7 water and 6/7 to 7/7 magma triggers it, as well as some weight setting) but I've never tried it.
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Re: Pressure Plate Logic: How Heavy is Water?
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2010, 03:57:51 am »
When a pressure plate deals with liquids, i think it's like the float you find in a toilet.

Also
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Pressure_plate
« Last Edit: October 22, 2010, 04:00:13 am by Mechanoid »
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