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Just wondering, is it possible to delay the effects of a switch? I'm planning on, in my current project, making Sackboy have to survive incoming attacks for around five minutes, and then having something to come rescue him or whatever. I was also wondering if I could cause speech bubbles to appear each minute saying things such as: 'Almost there, just hold on a little longer'.

2009-05-04 21:46:00 Author: Bear Posts: 2079

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If you have a piston with a magnetic key on it moving in a 5 minute line and then magnetic key switches at one minute intervals attached to the mouths you could pull it off. Is that too vague?

2009-05-04 21:48:00 Author: Killian Posts: 2575

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What Killian said. Attaching a key to a piston allows for complex timelines to be made easily by placing switches at varying intervals.

2009-05-04 21:49:00 Author: dawesbr Posts: 3280

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If you have a piston with a magnetic key on it moving in a 5 minute line and then magnetic key switches at one minute intervals attached to the mouths you could pull it off. Is that too vague? No no, I'm sure that'll fulfill what I'm trying to achieve. I'll test it out ASAP.

2009-05-04 21:50:00 Author: Bear Posts: 2079

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Just remember that whatever time you set on the piston is the time it takes for the piston to go from A to B back to A again. So you`d need to double the time. With something as long as 5 minutes I`d maybe recommend having a small cart with a key on it moving slowly along a track will mag switches along the path. That way is also a little easier to test it out as you can pick up and move the cart to whatever point you want quickly to test it.

2009-05-04 23:57:00 Author: Matt 82 Posts: 1096

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What they said, it's exactly how I got a very similar effect going in my level "Cosmic Conundrum"

2009-05-05 00:23:00 Author: Foofles Posts: 2278

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Just remember that whatever time you set on the piston is the time it takes for the piston to go from A to B back to A again. So you`d need to double the time.. Unless of course you set the piston (man i forgot what its called) so when it reaches the end it appears again where it started, that way it takes the time its set to. (The option looks like an arrow curving to the left or to the right)

2009-05-05 00:35:00 Author: Silverleon Posts: 6707

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Flipper motion? Didn`t know it did that.

2009-05-05 01:52:00 Author: Matt 82 Posts: 1096

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Flipper motion? Didn`t know it did that. Yeah, that's the one! lol, i just keep forgetting the name .

2009-05-05 22:00:00 Author: Silverleon Posts: 6707

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Alternatively, if you only want slight delay (like 5 to 30 seconds) you can use a circle shape, rotor bolt it to a piece of dark matter, put a mag key on the outer circle and a mag switch on the dark matter. Slow the rota bolt speed down so that it takes X amount of time to complete a full circuit before the key connects with the switch. This is also a good device to use if you have a single mag switch set to direction but you want it to power a number of contraptions, some of which are compatible with the direction setting, and some of which aren't. Basically, you can use the device as a relay. Example: mag switch (direction) > rota bolt/mag key combo > mag switch (on off/ one shot). ^ does that even make sense?

2009-05-07 18:34:00 Author: Ungreth Posts: 2130

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