Stabilized Water mission

[Drone4four]

I just completed the training tutorials. I've moved on to the Stabilized Water mission. This is the first mission where students are given full autonomy to place the Products, Reagents, Mechanisms, rather than telling you where to these components.

It’s not clear to me exactly what the objective is. As far as I can tell, I am expected to transform Reagents (Elements of Water the green orbs) into salts using the Glyphs of Calcification and then process them into Stabilized Water (the final Product). I kind of got a machine to perform some of these rudimentary tasks. But I’m stuck and I’d like to share my half-complete progress. According to this redditor, it’s only possible to generate a gif for a solved puzzle. How do I generate a gif to demonstrate my incomplete progress so you people can better provide advice?

[Drone4four]

Here is a brief screencap using an app included in my desktop environment (Gnome): https://www.dropbox.com/s/c9q8v60ngehte5j/Opus%20Magnum%20Stabilized%20Water%20%28first%20mission%29%20-%20-%20my%20attempt.webm?dl=0

Is there a way to demonstrate my progress but from within Opus Magnum?

And what would you people suggest I try next to solve the Stabilized Water mission based on my imperfect attempt as you can see in my Dropbox link?

[Drone4four]

Hooray! I figured it out: https://www.dropbox.com/s/21yjvqa67pgddua/Opus%20Magnum%20-%20Stabilized%20Water%20%28100G%2C%2057%2C%2010%2C%202018-11-22-19-12-48%29.gif?dl=0

I'm still curious about how to generate a gif for half-completed solutions. I guess this discussion I've started is quickly turning into a feature request for the developer. =]

[Pothocket]

If you ever need help with something just post a screenshot of your current progress. A lot of people are good enough to work through the logic of a solution based on that alone.

Good job figuring it out on your own though but your left arm doesn't need to let go and re-grab its atom midway through the solution. Should look like this: https://i.imgur.com/oBQQCPX.gif

[Serial Crusher]

I'm stuck as well. I feel like I just don't have the instructions necessary… How am I supposed to know that I need to use a glyph?

[steelviper77]

Originally posted by Serial Crusher:

I'm stuck as well. I feel like I just don't have the instructions necessary… How am I supposed to know that I need to use a glyph?

There's nothing to tell you what glyphs you will or won't need to use. If a glyph is completely unrelated to a puzzle (like certain ones involving metals when there are none present, for instance) it might not be offered in the sidebar, but that's not something you ever need to worry or think about. The only things you are required to place are the products. Part of each puzzle is determining "ok, I am given these reagents. I know that I can use a glyph of calcification to turn an elemental atom to salt, and I know I can use a glyph of bonding to turn two separate atoms into one conjoined molecule" and then from there determining which mechanisms you need to properly navigate the atoms around the board to construct the product. What aspect do you feel lost on that the tutorial didn't make apparent?

[engineer gaming]

Originally posted by Drone4four:

Hooray! I figured it out: https://www.dropbox.com/s/21yjvqa67pgddua/Opus%20Magnum%20-%20Stabilized%20Water%20%28100G%2C%2057%2C%2010%2C%202018-11-22-19-12-48%29.gif?dl=0

I'm still curious about how to generate a gif for half-completed solutions. I guess this discussion I've started is quickly turning into a feature request for the developer. =]

Unfortunately you cannot do this for incomplete solutions, but there is a useful feature for taking a custom length gif if your solution passes. While the gif recorder is running, press F10 to interrupt it. Then you can use F1/F2 to decide starting cycle, F3/F4 to decide end cycle, and F5 to record. Useful if the solution doesn't loop properly, or if you want to show off the initialisation process, or if you just want to save filesize because sometimes the gif records more loops than necessary (if you are repeating instructions in a trackloop or something)