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im bad with code so i may have made a mistake but its still not working

dude thank you so much! I was worried this was abandoned. Let me try this

Nope, steam error on upload attempt.
It's easy to fix though: Comment out lines that mention "showPublicText" and remove the word "Public" from the line(s) with "WritePublicText", so it's just "WriteText" and it'll work again. Warnings on compilation will stay, and it's okay.

there is a slight issue with neverending Keen updates to some very basic things. Accidently, I've spent quite some time lately playing SE again, after a very long break and fixed the script. Obviously, I forgot to upload. I'll try now and I hope I still can, I've got a new PC, and not sure if I still can...

I dont think this works anymore

it wasn't for years, but yeah... somehow it is now. Should be fixed.

The script is old as a dynosaur, but it worked last time I checked.

video is private, cant watch

Cheers for the heads up!

Used to work fine a year or two ago. I don't think there were any major scripting changes since then.
Honestly, there is another wheeled vehicle control script somewhere in the workshop, that is more advanced then mine, but yeah, this one should work too.

Any idea if this script is still functional?

Script updated, exception when you don't "ignore damping" is gone, cause changing damping is no longer an option. Also fixed angles display.
@Blue Falcon:
Instructions from caption posted at "How do I" thread of this script discussions.

Parts of the instructions are cut off in the script window. Can you post them on here?

@Commander Joir
Make sure you have all necessary groups named properly. If script compiles and you see this exception - you're missing a group.

getting "Cought exeption during exeption of script:Objekt reference not set to an instance of an object"

My bad, seems I had left the quotations in after trying to get it to work a few times. It is indeed working as intended. Neat script by the way!

@Purpleskin
Just tested to make sure. Vanilla game. Stable branch. Loaded the script from workshop.
Everything working.
Several "unrechable code" warning on compilation, but as described below - it's totally okay.

Tested both core and advanced settings. Everything works.


Check your groups and LCDs names. NullRef most likely means that you don't have essential group created (or if you don't need it - disable it in settings inside the script)

Pretty sure it's broken regardless, can't get it to display to an lcd and seems to not change steering angle regardless of which gear it's in.


Getting a nullreferenceexception when I recompile

Thanks, I'll take another look.

@BevansDesign
Unreachable code should be just a warning. Still have to compile and run correctly. In theory.

upd: Just gave the code a quick look - all 3 lines are for debugging. Won't hurt if they are unreachable.

Yup, looks like it's broken, unless I don't have it set up correctly. Unreachable Code errors on:
281,4
329,3
338,3

It's been a while since I played SE last time. Is it currently broken?

Can you put the modified version or an example up?

Hello! There's some unreachable code and an exception caught in regards to block referencing. I guess the code has been broken by a patch.

ok cool, thanks man

I've created two discussions one for bugs and another one for 'how to' please use them if you have any questions. Commentaries aren't the most convinient way to provide support.

yeah it works fine without lcd aswell i found the lines not long after posting and changed them works fine without them and that is something ill defo look into as doing survival on alien plaent atm so im off roading alot i may even add the thrusters again and text panel again eventually but atm im just using a quickly thwon together starting transport for hand mining so i wont be keeping this car long so no need to mess with setting too much atm i will defo mess more with settings on my more permanat rover later on may even build a mobile base rover thanks for script , help getting it working and tips for different seetings :D

@<*WP*> Loki2001
You can also modify the code a little to force your LCD to display the currently working Programmable block.

After the line 490:
text = "Vehicle status:\n\n"; <---- Orginal line
Add something like this:
text = text+"Active profile OFFROAD."; <---- For PB1
text = text+"Active profile ROAD."; <---- For PB2

Active profile will be displayed after the line "Vehicle status".

@<*WP*> Loki2001
Usually, I only use 'parking' and 'slow' modes outside of terrain, cause if I'm driving over metal blocks it means I'm parking. In this case settings won't mean too much, due to low speed.
If you want to have full range of settings ready for roads and separate one for off-road, you can just add another program block with the script and with just different set of settings. Create a timer block that will toggle them on/off and add this timer to your quick panel.
E.g.:
- PB1 with offroad settings and PB2 for roads profile.
- PB1 is ON and PB2 is OFF by default.
- Have a timer that will run both scrips, and 'trigger now' itself.
- Have another timer that will toggle both ProgrammingBlocks On/Off. We'll call it ModeTimer
- Add 'TriggerNow' action of ModeTimer to your quick bar.
- Drive around till you get on a road. Trigger ModeTimer.
- Now PB1 will be OFF, and PB2 will be ON. You are getting all new profiles.

@IdlePit
At lines 47 and 48 you can disable thrusters and LCD usage. Scrip will not look for them, and won't crush if you have none. I've never tested it without LCD, though, but it should work fine.

@I.C.E.
thanks i figured it out after doing what u said it still crashed but then i got thinking u said it was looking for something that was missing and i had no thrusters or text panels so i added those and all works fine now can tell already that this script is gonna get alot of use from me :)

@I.C.E. finally got around to checking out the script, and i'm totally happy the script works.
I'm thinking about trying to alter the ride height and dampeners, maybe even the suspension strength of the rover using your script...problem is my rovers are all built for terrain...and I wanna be able to adjust then on the fly for roads. Got any suggestions?

@IdlePit
Most likely - you have a typo in one of the group names. This sort of exception usually indicates that script is trying to operate an object that was never found.

Script have debug mode to help solving this kind of issues. Find the line 120 and change:
bool debug = false; <---- THIS
bool debug = true; <---- TO THIS

Save and compile and run the script again. You should see a lot more then just 'exception'. Steps shown before the exception will show you what was the last thing script was trying to do before it crush, probably it will be setting of a certain group.

i cant get this to work i need help ive put a timer block to run script (no arguement) and then trigger itself again, then i grouped my wheels, then went to cockpit and set buttons 1 to 4 to run script with arguements Parking, Slow, Normal and Race but when i press the burrons nothing happens and im getting a message on program block saying Caught exception during execution of script:Object referance not set to an instance of an object. i dont know what this means but im guessing ive done something wrong somewhere

Thats awesome. I'll give it a test now then :)

Yepp - all done. It's working in current stable version now. Hopefully I didn't add any bugs with code changes.

I will update it soon, at least I hope so. Unfortunately, noone answered to my question at steam forums, so I'm not sure how to gather block list from particular block group, but some other scripts are being updated now, and I hope I can find an example to fix mine.

Hey there, they pushed out the API change to stable this week and for some reason most of the scripts don't work. Neither does your script, I was really itching to try it out too lol. Any chance your script will get updated?

Well it's no rush, the whole time I've played the game the wheels have sucked, a few more weeks/months won't be bad!

I guess It'll be updated when they push that API change to stable. Unfortunately, I have really sever performance/stability issues with dev branch (2 weeks ago tested) and can't really play it, so can't make sure if the script is working/not working. Sorry.

Hey there, I really love the idea of this script, it's awesome! Unfortunately I can't use it because my world is a dev world, and they modified the ModAPI a few updates ago. Is there any chance you will be updating the script to work with that?

And that's how Space Engineers got gearbox. Nice work!