Star Citizen: Bugsmashers! - Fuel Pipe Dream

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1. 00:00:06

   [Music] hi my name is Max hung marked out today so I'm taking over bug Smashers let's get started bug smashes so today we get a fun little bug that lets you generate fuel from your heat exhaust and your power consumption which means we have finally overcome entropy but they don't want it so we got to get rid of it the way the engine uh the way the designers to found out about this that while they were balancing uh uh fuel while they were balancing pipes

2. 00:00:57

   uh they were balancing the fuel consumption for both all for all the fuel intakes the fuel tanks and the uh the flight controller and they noticed that if they turned everything off and they just idled a ship and just floated there they would be generating fuel so it took a while to dig around here's what we Ed to control uh our pipes system so we have our pipe system that controls how heat is passed around the ship how power is passed around the ship and it turns out that there's this fun little part where you can decide on when a pipe comes online and offline and decide on

3. 00:01:45

   where they would get connected so the the way that originally was was that it would just connect to every kind of every kind of pipes whatever came online it would immediately connect to and then you would be able to see something like this let me make yeah all right so here we are in the code or in the game I made a special Gladius or I repurposed the old Gladius to show this off so we have C bars I can spell if we burn a little bit of fuel and then

4. 00:02:36

   we come to an idle you notice come to an idle you notice in the top right we see that numbers are slowly climbing up one unit every couple seconds every other second this is a special Gladius that doesn't have any fuel intake so it shouldn't be generating any fuel at all but here we see it's coming back up slow slowly and slowly and slowly so uh you can see it around this top right Cal so it took a little bit of digging around and we found out that because the way pipes work something was pushing stuff into the fuel pipes and then the fuel these fuel tanks were taking were

5. 00:03:24

   pulling in that that amount of that amount this this isn't like science class where you have where units are important it's just a number goes in number comes out apparently it's going into the fuel tanks and we du around and found that in both the power and the heat connection power and heat we were connecting to any kind of pipes because there's no specific part where it says oh this is a heat pipe or a fuel pipe or whatever and so all we had to do was put in these checks to make sure that we're connecting to a power pipe and if we combine that we stop the game combine that we do it over here as well uh what is this

6. 00:04:15

   power uh entity component we do it here as well on pipe connect we do if and I already forgot hpe class if we do that compile the code this will make sure that our heat connection will only connect to the heat pipes and our power connection only connect to the power pipes so now it won't be Rand so now these connections

7. 00:05:04

   won't be randomly pushing in values everywhere and breaking the laws of physics now that it's done compiling we bring up our same level with the same Gladius now remember that this is the special Gladius that doesn't have any fuel intakes so we just pipes turn on pipes turn on the name sh and notice that if we fly around you can even tell right now that you can see the number is steadily going down I only took out the fuel intakes but while the plane is in Flight it'll idle putting it in idle will keep it burning fuel

8. 00:05:55

   so now that we're in Idol and just floating here it's burning fuel like it's supposed to to and now the Heat and the power are no longer contributing to your fuel intakes and so we have our disappointing conclusion where we where we have to follow the laws of physics we can't just generate fuel from Heats and pipe we we have to have them contribute uh we have to have them push their resources to their proper pipes and not just to all them which and prevent you from getting free fuel just by flying your ship so next time Mark may or may not be back we'll see what happens next time this is Max hung thanks for joining me for bug Smashers thank you for watching so if you want to keep it with the latest and greatest in Star Citizen

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