Configurable Automatic LCDs

Hi everyone,

I posted my Automatic LCDs in-game script to workshop a few days ago and it unexpectedly became really popular so I thought maybe some of you here will find it useful too.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=403921671

Manages multiple LCDs based on commands written in LCD public title.
- Automatic LCD scrolling up and down!
- Filter blocks by name for all commands
- Filtered inventory items listing & missing items listing
- Reactor, solar & battery power stats
- Damaged blocks list with progress bars!
- Cargo space stats
- Block count stats
- Producing & Idle blocks summary / list
- Enabled blocks summary / list
- Time
- Custom LCD lines
- Displays nicely formatted text with progress bars!
- Multiple commands in single LCD!

NO PROGRAMMING NEEDED. Just load the script based on instructions and you are done!

Here is one quick screen showing some of the LCD functions:



And here is video guide:

Hope you will find some use for it!

 

Could you make a video with it in action?

 

It's on my todo list to do some video of how to set it up and to show off some of the features. I will try to do it as soon as possible.

 

this total awesome sauce! It needs to be added into the basic functionality of game. :thumb:

 

Video guide added: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oopzyQ0t6Dk

 

this is amazing fantastic work!

 

I saw that on the Workshop! Been thinking about implementing it with a ship I'm working on. Very cool script.

 

Thanks guys! Use it and share the creations. I would really like to see how people use it.

 

Awesome work on this script!
I'm especially impressed with the visuals - I love how you managed to display a progress bar with the really limited formatting options that a text panel can offer.

 

The progress bar was easy ' and | were the only two characters with smallest width and they nicely fit progress bar. harder part was alignment of text

 

Agreed, I know that problem too. Lets hope for the implementation of monospace fonts (see suggestion forums), that might help a lot.

 

Easy to use and it just happens to be so adaptable. Extremely valuable script in SE. Well done.

 

Really glad to hear that you like it. The script has now much more great features since I first posted it. People are giving me really great suggestions. I'm planning to do whole set of scripts like this one to manage everything in station like sorting items to containers based on quotas that are shared between scripts, automatic assembling of items based on those quotas, and more stuff that will be possible.
I think Programmable Blocks are something that people are afraid of and I intend to change that by doing scripts like this hopefully convincing people that programmable blocks scripts can be even better than mods because you can use them on any server with any mods (or without any mods).

 

Doesn't work for me, tells me i have no power sources and inventory screen says i have 0 of everything (i have stuff in all my cargo storage...)

 

Is your cargo on the same grid as the PB? (No rotor, connector, piston, etc?) Recently, the script was updated to only show things on the same grid by default.

 

yeah, its not connected through anything apart from being on the same platform.

 

MMaster, is it possible to show the status of a grouped set of blocks, Such as my air tight doors, I want to see the status of the doors as a group not each door?

 

I'm entertained that one of the most popular scripts to hit the workshop has a 1 page long thread here.

 

This script is fantastic. How does it have less than a page of comments?!?

 

Best script for LCDs out there, what else to say?

 

This has been answered over and over again.

No.

A group doesn't have to have the same settings. i.e. a group of doors can be individually set to be opened or closed. So what should the group status be if half of your doors are open and the other half are closed? What if one is closed and the rest are open? Groups don't even have to be like blocks. They can be completely diversified and divergent.

The easiest work around is to grab the status of ONE block, assuming that YOU assume that they all have identical settings. For groups of identical blocks with similar names, change one block's name to match the group name.

Example:
*Air Tight Hangar Doors*
Air Tight Hangar Door 01
Air Tight Hangar Door 02
Air Tight Hangar Door 03

*Air Tight Hangar Doors*
Air Tight Hangar Doors
Air Tight Hangar Door 02
Air Tight Hangar Door 03