Airtight Door Grouping

[Levion]

I looked around a bit and i couldnt find this... I need help... How do i Group airtight doors so that they open/close simotaniously. Im working on a space station and i have made a hanger, i really need this so that i can FINISH the hanger.


I found one more problem with the hangers... I setup the buttons but it wont close.. it just simply wont close. Why? is there a limit? i have a LOT of power on my station.

[Professor Nipples]

Go into a control panel, find the hangar doors you want. Select them (hold control and use lmb) once you have them all, over on the right, drop down menu make them into a group. Save the group!


Hope that helps (still need button/sensor/something to trigger them)

[dga8705]

If you use mods and have different types of air tight hangar doors, you might have to make each type a separate group, then link them all to a timer. Then you can have a button or sensor or whatever activate them all at once. If they are all just the vanilla blocks, then do what the first guy said.

[Levion]

thanks a ton

[demented individual]

Originally posted by Professor Nipples:

Go into a control panel, find the hangar doors you want. Select them (hold control and use lmb) once you have them all, over on the right, drop down menu make them into a group. Save the group!


Hope that helps (still need button/sensor/something to trigger them)

Hey pls help when i maked this group, ang then selected it in button panel, when i was clickinf nothing happened. What is the problem?

[Skeloton]

Originally posted by Animatius:

Hey pls help when i maked this group, ang then selected it in button panel, when i was clickinf nothing happened. What is the problem?

Are you sure you selected Open/Close rather than On/Off?

Also for OP. If like me you made an airlock with inner/outer doors, place/build an antenna then click on the first door in the control panel list. Then find the last one and shift+click to select them all, turn "show on HUD" to on so you can see which doors are which and group them accordingly.

[Jim]

Originally posted by Animatius:

Originally posted by Professor Nipples:

Go into a control panel, find the hangar doors you want. Select them (hold control and use lmb) once you have them all, over on the right, drop down menu make them into a group. Save the group!


Hope that helps (still need button/sensor/something to trigger them)

Hey pls help when i maked this group, ang then selected it in button panel, when i was clickinf nothing happened. What is the problem?

Sounds like an ownership issue to me. If you're playing in creative, make sure you are the owner of the button panel. Objects on a grid will not interact properly if the ownership isn't set up right.

[I AM A MANGO]

mine does not show the option Open/close

[arreclain]

Originally posted by ☭товарищ казачий☭:

mine does not show the option Open/close

Is yours a mixed group of blocks, or all blocks of one type?

[SpannerMonkey]

Originally posted by ☭товарищ казачий☭:

mine does not show the option Open/close

Usually this happens when you accidentaly add something that is not a door to the group, all objects in a group need to be the same type of object for the options to show correctly

[arreclain]

Originally posted by SpannerMonkey:

Originally posted by ☭товарищ казачий☭:

mine does not show the option Open/close

Usually this happens when you accidentaly add something that is not a door to the group, all objects in a group need to be the same type of object for the options to show correctly

Percisely what I was checking for. Go over that group twice, and look for anything that snuck in like an interior light or another block group.

[rebellionmarch]

Originally posted by animatius:

Originally posted by Professor Nipples:

Go into a control panel, find the hangar doors you want. Select them (hold control and use lmb) once you have them all, over on the right, drop down menu make them into a group. Save the group!


Hope that helps (still need button/sensor/something to trigger them)

Hey pls help when i maked this group, ang then selected it in button panel, when i was clickinf nothing happened. What is the problem?

Also, make sure everything is owned by you (the button you are pushing, all the doors, etc... really easy, display all hidden items ctrl+a the list, set ownership to you)

[I AM A MANGO]

Yep it was that...accidentally put a button panel with the group...thanks guys

[arreclain]

Glad it worked out!

[Levion]

thanks for all the help,. and it is verry helpfull, but unfortunately i am unable to play Space Engineers anymore... the game just.. my computer cant handle the epicness that is Space Engineers... so.. i mean this is really helpfull but sorry i couldnt use it

[J of Smith]

What would cause the game not to group them. Right now I haven't been able to make an airlock at all cause the game seems to refuse to highlight the targets I would like to group