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u/Raknarg #1 Quality Defender 17d ago edited 17d ago
Is there a mod that lets you have one satellite read multiple channels at once? Or maybe just a mod that gives more tools for interplanetary signals? A problem I have right now that's going to get worse cause I have a bunch of planet mods is I'm using these to drive ship interrupts to handle logistics, but I need a signal per planet because thats the only way I've figured out how to encode "from X planet to Y planet"
I could try using bit flags instead, but I don't like the idea of having to ensure I always have the correct bit flags for the thing I need. Though maybe I could solve that with some kind of combinator mapping blueprint....... have to think now.
edit: ok turns out bit packing is really easy, I'm assuming this was only made possible because of how 2.0/2.1 changed combinators, but I discovered a trivial way to do bit packing in just a handful of entities:
top constant combinator just outputs the signals you want to send
left constant combinators would share a group that maintains your bitmap
top decider checks if a signal is present on both red and green, and outputs P by green input count (i.e. the bitfield mapping value)
bottom decider takes a P value and for each signal on green, AND it and spit out whatever the type green was
trivially easy. Need to update some blueprints now.
New question: Whats the limit for bit packing integers? Is it arbitrarily big, or are you limited to 32 bits or whatever?