Rotor upper limit button panel control

[Arthadonis]

Curious if there's a way to control rotor upper limits with the button panel?
By this i mean allow rotors to spin freely until i press 1 on the button panel, at which point the rotors' upper limit becomes 0 and they stop at that rotation.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Depends on good you are with a programmable block.

Command bars on cockpits, timer block, etc don't store floating values. All the functions are baked in. You might be able to rig something a programmable block. Rotors like to reorient which direction is which when limits are changed, so it might be a little tricky.

[Arthadonis]

I was afraid you'd say that. I have no experience with the programmable blocks yet.

[Pembroke]

How about not setting the upper limit to zero at once but use a series of timer blocks to gradually drop the value lower? That way it ought to look like it's slowly grinding down to a halt. Maybe.

[Arthadonis]

That's a good idea, i'll keep that in mind for the future, however for this perticular situation i'm going for an instant stop, i'm basically attempting to emulate the mass relays from Mass Effect in how the rings suddenly stop as the ship launches.

[sir_lancealittle]

You can access rotor limits through timers actions. Not sure if you can set accurate limits with that though. Try it out: Make a timer control the rotor, and a button panel trigger the timer.

Alternatively, take a look at some of the workshop mods and learn from those how to use the programmable block.

I learned a lot from this one:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=367344570

EDIT:
(Yes, that one specifically uses rotor limiters. So you can see all the syntax needed in that one script there.)

[Arthadonis]

Thanks for the link sir_lancealittle, i'll take a look when i get up in the morning. Thankyou The Big Brezezinski and Pembroke for your suggestions aswell.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

If you put the braking force to max on the rotor it will stop instantly when powered down with a timer. You would have to fiddle with the RPM to get the timing right but you should be able to make it stop in pretty much the same place every time that way :)