Projector Problem

[(-WT-) Doom114]

not sure if this is a random multiplayer occurence but we can't seem to get it to fix by rebooting the server or anything so:

I made a projector with welder autobuilder for drones. The system has 2 projectors that i can switch on and off and both designs fit withing the space.
We successfully made one of each ship but now, for some reason, whenever we use the welders it only places the armor and heavy armor blocks. The ships will finish and just be hollow without thrusters.

The drones are small ships and the only mod involved is the armored thrusters, but even the vanilla thrusters in the projection are unplacable both by the welders and by players.

[NorseSamurai]

I have seen the problem with Doom and it seems anything other than a armored block will not get built (reactors, converyors, landing gears, cameras, etc).

[DC-GS]

Survival or creative?
Does the projection of the thrusters disappear?

[(-WT-) Doom114]

Survival that I know of, I only tested it once in creative before putting it in our Survival Server.

The projection does not disappear and if you get near it with the welder it shows the needed components but doesnt let you interact with it. Turning the projector off and on does not help.

[Alcyone Star]

my projectors sometimes dont work

[HyggeDane]

got pretty much the same issue in an automated setup.. it can go through it once but then it whont weld the initial block which is a mergeblock, and because of that it will not finish the rest of the ship... :/

[ShadowRaven]

I got a proplem when I try to place a large bp (like 5000 blocks). It doesn't even show the hologramms when I select the bp in the projector. Only rather small ships like with about 500 blocks work for me but I didn't test on how many blocks it stops working. However I'm playing on a survival DS but can't give you a log because I'm not an admin

[DiO]

same here since the last update.after the start hologram blocks disappear and nothing happens ...before the update everything worked

[elKabong31000]

Originally posted by DANE:

got pretty much the same issue in an automated setup.. it can go through it once but then it whont weld the initial block which is a mergeblock, and because of that it will not finish the rest of the ship... :/

Question # 1... Is the first block(the merge block) being connected to another merge block?
Question # 2... The merge blocks( both of them, the existing one and the one in the
projection) are they both turned on?

Now that the obvious stuff is out of the way, heres what i saw in my testing. I was building a reloadable mass driver. I had the projectors set to power down with a timer block. So i push a button and the timers did this : 1. turn the projector and welders on. 2. wait 5 sec to finish "printing" the projectile and turn the projector and welders off. 3. Initiate launch procedure( you can figure this out on your own, took forever to get it right)... and whoosh the projectile goes at the target at 315m/s, hits it and leaves a big hole. i say "woh, nice", and hit the button again expecting more aplause and get nothing. The welders shoot a few sparks off of the merge block and the projection of the merge block on the projectile dissapears and does not print the projectile. Tried it again and again and no dice. it seems that when you turn the projector off it doesnt work again. What i did was rotate the PROJECTION away from the "printer" and use the timer blocks to rotate it in and then out when the "printing" is done. Now i can hit the button every 8 seconds or so and get the same result every time... BIG holes in anything i shoot at. The same will probibly work for your project. Yes, you will have ghost imeges of your "printables" floating about but it will work again and again. Hope my rambling helped

[Luqin]

Hello, i have tried to reproduce your projector problem.. could you send me a world, where this has happened? If i load server here, welding projection works fine.