25cm offset (diagonal) conveyor variants (for 0.5m conveyor blocks)

Bertus Dippenaar shared this feedback ago

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The title pretty much says it all, when building a small grid type ship and routing conveyors you end up being forced to line up blocks in 50cm increments so conveyor ports will always line up, if any piece is off by 25cm your conveyors won't be able to get routed seemlessly.

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bnainz ●

Or add a version of the conveyor slice block that offsets diagonally a space, too, for each size. With the unified grid system, it can be messy to conveyor up your grid or base, when they don't meet up.

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Semtex ●

It would be useful to have a “flexible block” that could be shifted and extended—extended to the length of two blocks and shifted by the width of one block. This would greatly simplify certain designs, even if it meant that the construction of the block would be many times more expensive and complex.

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Bertus Dippenaar ●

I thought about this option too, it would be amazing! - unfortunately this would probably introduce a massive computational debt since the collision would need to be calculated all the time, its easier to (and cheaper on performance) to have some static block options I believe

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Semtex ●

It's possible... We need a lateral shift of “half a block” in two directions—“perpendicular to the grid” and “diagonal to the grid.” That would be just two blocks... The length could be handled with a “half-block” (0.25 x 0.5 x 0.5) That would be the third one

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bnainz ●

Semtex: are you talking about real-time morphing of blocks as you place them? Or flexible 'type' of variants of blocks? Or 'Flexible', as meaning an lateral offset?

That's partly why I recommended the conveyor slice diagonal variant, because they would be stackable. The slicer block, looking down at it, would be two spaces forward, one to the side. If you need to move to connect to a conveyor junction that is off by 3 spaces to the left in front of you, stack 3 diagonal slices, rotate them to the left. So, 6 spaces forward, 3 spaces to the left offset. Then, normal slicers as needed.

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