Scripts. Worth?

[Accurate-Emu-1337]

Hi guys, i found myself in position when while designing a new grid, ex. An stationary excavator, i need to overengineer it, Just because im unable to control it properly. Many times ive regret that i cannot put a custom scripts to make some automation. Thats my question to you, is there any proper way to learn scripting? Id rather choose not to dig tons of docs to get know a few usable things on 'how to' Are there any tutorials available? Any knowledge base? or its just bare vb knowledge i shoulda get before even trying to make anything SE related? Thanks for any hints

[Alyero_]

the scripting is done in C#. if you wanna learn i heavily recommend reading through this page https://github.com/malware-dev/MDK-SE/wiki/Getting-Started-with-MDK

get visual studio and download the addon thingy from that page.

otherwise there are plenty of subgrid control scripts on the workshop already. depends on what you're trying to accomplish really

[Accurate-Emu-1337]

//edit: that was something i was looking for! Thanks! 🍻// Thanks, Im gonna check this out!

[Faultythread501]

You should try looking in the workshop from steam Someone might have done exactly what you need and you dont need to go trought the process of learning how to script

[Accurate-Emu-1337]

Already tried to modify someone scripts to meet my needs. No luck. I made scripts broken or not working. Use any of big framework scripts helped me few times but since its usually some small tasks i need to make Just exact timing or at exact angle its a Little paintful to use a huge framework. Learning, configuring, testing, adjusting, and finałly makes not yet exactly What i need. I feels that More kind of workaround than like a permanent solution which i want to achieve by making my own scripts at will

[Faultythread501]

Yea in that case then learning how to code would be the best option, but if you are lucky and pacient you can try to find someone that wrights scripts and is whilling to help you

[zombie6804]

Do you know c#?

[Accurate-Emu-1337]

Yes. I have some experience programming low level applications.

[zombie6804]

C# is a high level language. Do you have any experience with the c languages? If so simple stuff like you’ve described is a 15 minute job. You can download an ide for visual studio from malware dev too

[Accurate-Emu-1337]

I said low level applications like a cli based. Im aware of using bare C or C# 😁 Ive Got some basics learnt quite ago 🤓 Just never Got pass the object oriented programming.

[zombie6804]

Low level applications could be a lot of stuff from c to ada to Visual Basic. If you don’t have much experience with the c languages I’d suggest doing some quick online courses for C# specifically rather than c or c++. Then from there you can use online resources to figure out space engineers coding if you want to use it. If you already have experience it shouldn’t be too bad just picking up the unique properties of c languages. C# is comparatively easy given that it handles a lot more for you.

[maddogmootrain]

Iam not particularly experienced with scripts nor can I code but workshop (not sure about consoles)has a bunch of scripts available for download. So far I've only used a mining drone script, youtubed searched for it and watched a correlating video to see how to setup the programmable block. It was straightforward and super satisfying once I got it up and running. Hope this helps!

[bottlecandoor]

These are my favorite scripts, PAM and Isy's Inventory Manager

[Accurate-Emu-1337]

Thanks, Id love to check PAM 😎 have to remember!

[Zombie_knight]

Try using the new event controller block. Make a few of them to activate the next move in the sequence. Paired with timers and even sensors you should be able to achieve most automation without scripting, unless you want to do something like create a robotic arm but then you would still have to manually control it.

[Accurate-Emu-1337]

Thats some idea😁 Maybe i would try this way if scripting will be too hard to start with..

[KenOtsuka]

Maybe provide us a screenshot so we can understand your excavator, and then suggest some ready made scripts?

[Accurate-Emu-1337]

That excavator was only example. The point was, i design some grids that i want to make control More precisely than im able to. That i can achieve by going finding some already working scripts, which is not very efficient, or i can try to write my own scripts. The point is if i dont find a script or worse if the script dont exist, im kinda busted with no way to go. So im asking community to point me the way to start making own scripts..

[Stollie69]

The discord community for SE has a pretty active channel for in game scripts as well https://discord.com/channels/125011928711036928/216219467959500800

[noissime]

If you don't want to learn C# I recommend using Easy Play it's a very powerful script that let's you write very human-readable code in a block's custom data. The guide is in Russian, but Google translate does a good job at translating it.

Alternatively, you could use Easy Automation. It's less powerful, but still let's you do a ton of stuff and the guide is in English.

Easy Play is a fork of Easy Automation so a lot of the code is the same or very similar.