Maybe theres an update needed? Tried to use this railgun in creative and it doesnt work.. no turret moving, no shots being fired.. and half the cannon ist still porjected (if thats not intended :D )

this railgun is tested and under funktion. perfect railgun!

Spring count may make the projectile fly backwards. its very unpredictable since this is working on a loophole in SE. need lots of testing even just adding 1 rotor

noticed in the latest update this is slightly less reliable in projectile speed.. perhaps another rotor spring might solve this?

Made a small fix

its not even like you have to fix it just figured i would ask

yea ofc its not a huge rush i just really wanted to use this as the main gun on my flagship it beats the piss out of a gravity driven railgun

I have quickfix it during MP test branch but forgot the steps actually. Will need some time to get to this again.

is there anyway to allow this to work in survival or a way to edit the script to ignore it

This is a Keen specific exception. Probably a survival bug.

when i attempt to use this on a survival world but admin spawned i get a error message on the P block about an exception at system.throwhelper.throwkeynotfboundexcetion

You can cut from the "Cannon Suspension Rotor" and up. Then this suspension rotor will be pasted to any of your desired ship. Also this is survival ready and works in MP / DS.

Also, is this survival ready?

Do you think you could modify the railgun to be mountable by just a connector/merge block, rather than the standard stand it uses? I'm planning to put this on a battleship.

@SGT The number of RDSA Rotors must be exactly 2, else the timing will be off. For small grid, it should work as per usual, i believe the merge block did disconnect, just that projectile did not fire and the merge block is turned back on and projectile merged back. It is not easy to tweak till it is working, due to unexpected timings for more than 2 rotor setup.

Please consider making a version that uses a small block based warhead instead of the large block? That way this can more easily be mounted as a fixed mount weapon of cap ships and fire out gunports more easily.

i am attempting to jury-rig it to a ship im building and im running into 2 issues:
-1- when using your projectile it will un-merge when it is still moving backwards causing an explosion.
-2- when using a small grid variant ( [your barrel] [conversion rotor] [merge] [merge projectile] ) it dosent un-merge the projectile, even though they have the exact same names as the large version.
any help would be appreciated.

Need tweaking of the script timings for any modification.

Can this be modified to add more boost rotors?

nice, i like it

I swapped out the barrels and put a Projection instead, giving nearly the same barrel feel but reduced collision potential due to fast barrel movements.

@Damadark script is updated to handle multiple cannons on one ship. As for multiple cannon controlled by one cockpit (clicking fire triggers 2 barrels to fire), will need tweaking since my script auto detects the first cannon assembly.

Alysius would you consider a script modification so you can add several static ones on the ship/turret to alternate fire making a more rapid rate of fire? E.G. Paste 2 on top of each other with a space so it's a double barrel concept with either a slight desync to the shots or they alternate 1 reloads while one fires.

@crypt I tried on DS, seems like you can have 2 cannons on same ship after all, but you MUST ensure that the controlling cockpits must NOT be on the same grid. This blueprint wont have issue since cockpits are on rotor grids, but in case you want to shift the cocopits, you MUST ensure the controlling cockpits of the various cannons MUST NOT be on the same grid (use rotors to split them if you must).

Other than that, my codes have been updated to properly detect the correct set of RDSA rotor and cockpit groups (pasting multiple of this cannons on your ship allows you to individually aim and fire them).

Dang, was hoping that would not be an issue :/ Looks like i'll have to make 3 versions of the ship, one with it embedded in the bow and 2 with the modified turrets(large/small grid). Thank you for taking the time to check on that and the awesome weapon to play with :)

@crypt some issues with multiple cockpit. Looks like you can only control one in the whole grid (meaning, even if script is reading values from the correct cockpit you are sitting in, the game doesn't return any values as there is a bug in processing multiple cockpit). This issue is being reported very long ago and plagued many player control scripts (rotor turret, WASD grav drive scripts etc). Thinking of how to overcome this.... or wait for Keen.

Moving that up one level did the trick, the projectile does not travel as fast as the large grid(~50m/s) but still does dmg. (using a MB and 3x3x3 light armor blocks)

6 rotor heads will need aome change in the release timing. Try shifting the mergeBlock.ApplyAction ("OnOff_Ogf") one level up or down the switch case statement.

Awesome, Thank you! I currently have a modified/stripped down large grid version of this in the bow/nose, adding small grid versions across the deck would be ideal for the smaller size, tho i've played around with the small rotors and even with 6 the cuurrent script only moves the rotor heads such a small distance the projectile barely moves.

Oh script not designed for multiple setups. let me modify the script.

Is there a way to get multiples of this to work on a single ship? every way i've tried i can only get one work. I'm wanting to make a capital ship with many turrets and this would be wicked used on small grid turrets(converted it to a short barrel 'battleship turret' but large grid is just too big). Thanks

Rotor not strong enough to hold the barrel lol. Maybe i release a shorter version.

the barral dosent want to stay up in graviy, any help?

@slayer i tried with 2 rotors, the launch speed is 10m/s. too slow to reach anywhere. 6 small rotors will do the job.

I am going to try and put this on a small grid tank to fire on npc bases. Adding legs on rotors that brace it against the ground should help with recoil, and a low power setting for firing without the legs down.

The entire thing. Overkill.

totally not what i wanted but i do see i will need more rotors to get what i want to work..... will probably still use rotor machinegun as it has unlimited range and is highly compact

steam says thats not an actuall user its very picky

i wasn't looking for max speed just fast enough to huck it a ways....

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@Phantom Its a very simple script. You can just use it.

@TrueTurtle its using rotor displacement exploit feature to shoot the projectile. For gravity generators, the projectile needs mass block. Its an entire different type of weapon.

@slayer small rotor need many stacks to reach max speed. More than 2 stacks will summon wrath of clang in MP. Anyway BruceLeeLeeLee already has it, you can search his profile.

this looks cool

Are you allowing others to use the RDSA script in thier own builds? Credit will be given of course.

Other than that, Loving the build. :D

how do you get the gravity to shoot the projectile and break stuff, it hasnt worked for me

what about a small ship 'grenade launcher' turret?
i want one of those...badly plz

this is so cool

wew what's the dimensions of the cannon? id build a sick ship to put it on

Compact and automated cannon in the works.

Automation possible. A separate script is required:

https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/HandyFilthyAsp

But I wouldnt recommend wastage of materials at this level.

the question is, can this be automated? how cool would that be?

Sweet Jesus @alysius, could you make more mountable turrets? i do enjoy the utilitarian feel of this gun, plus id love a miniature for some of my corvettes lol