Thanks, Sausage! Sounds like some fond memories.

Hahaha, reminds me of the Gibberish Translator we used to use to thwart chat moderators by concealing our bold arguments about [fings n stuffz]. Still got banned though.

Thank you Patrick for this mod. Nice touch.

it's synchronized in the randomness because the mod hands it to Space Engineers, which then says "Keen told me to run this logic", and then it renders the same text to everyone because the "random" got assigned to each metadata slot on each designated cube comprising each associated object which got constructed at some point in time by someone. I think I covered every variable there.

It's ... not really a question? I wrote it. :) I told you what it does.

Interesting question if the content is actually synced if it is random, or if the code is running purely client-side.

Ah, Keen Software House, creating processing bottlenecks to increase efficiency ... poorly..

The mod doesn't need to synchronize screen content, the game does that already.

if they do everything client-side though, then they wouldn't be able to synchronize screen content, so SOME must be server-side.

Well that's what I asked first. If you do it all client side then there is zero server load, so everything is fine. :)

Why do you assume mine doesn't work like that already? Your comment makes a lot of questionable assumptions. It would be easier to address your concerns in the longer format provided by Discord.

I am not sure how it is done, but this mod here runs entirely client-side: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2608746450

I think your mod could do the same and with that reduce server load to zero. While I believe that your mod has a very low footprint, multiply that by 1000 LCDs on a big server, and you still have a noticeable amount of CPU time spent.

Thanks :) Load should be pretty low. There's only one executing copy of the code and it just updates the LCDs randomly. So it shouldn't be a problem. Feel free to jump on the Discord if you have more questions!

Absolutely lovely!

Asking as a server owner: what is the load this script produces?

Thanks! It's one of my favorite pieces of work. This game is the fifth time I've ported it to a new platform. lol

This running on the LCD of an otherwise-dull PB is quiet magic. Really increases the realism. Nice work. 

ok sweet thanks buddy

It's just technical mumbo jumbo that you might see on a computer screen in the background of a Scifi B movie. There are screen shots that show you exactly what it displays.

Jargon.

Hi guys may i just ask what type of info does this mod give you on a LCD

The answer really depends on what you actually want to know. What is it you are trying to figure out?

Is this seeded random?

@sazorex, thanks I'm glad to hear that! I wrote the original code as a joke about 6~7 years ago, and I had the same reaction. :)

This is oddly satisfying, and really ties a bridge together.

I don't know of any that exist. I could probably knock one together for you. Feel free to DM me on Discord (patrickq#8415) with the sort of information you want to see. I'm assuming you are thinking someting like this? Image [cdn2.hubspot.net]

Do you make, or know where I can find, a version that does commodities or stocks? I'd like to have one for decoration.

@Cave Lord, thank you! Sometimes you just have to keep it simple. I'm glad you like it!

I Wish all LCD mods were as simple as just clicking something in the scripts drop bar

@Sir Farts-A-Lot haha, oh man I remember that stuff! You get me at least 12 frames of ascii animation, and I'll build you a TSS for it! lol

This is great--the only thing better would be an ASCII ART mode... anyone... anyone....? :)

@wildgreen1701 Thank you! That's quite the compliment!

@TroLLeX_ Thank you! I appreciate your suggestion.

This should be in the game. Modders like @Patrick is why this game just gets better. As far asa separate mode that is not a problem.

This is a great addition! I think what also could be cool is if the script would show random warnings or errors in another color. Maybe only if blocks of the ship are broken or damaged. This would add some more feeling to the mod.

@Rubber Sword Thanks, glad to hear it!

@wildgreen1701 Yep, I've done Matrix screens in the past. That's not likely something I'd add to this, but I might make a separate mod. Great idea!

This looks like a great mod, can wait to try it but I was wondering if you could make a matrix type screen.

Love it.

@Epsilon It may be possible. When I get a chance I'll look into it. Thank you for the suggestion!

Would it be possible to use custom data to specify a font size for this? The text is a bit small.

@LP Shadow Awesome!

Yeah, I already saw it and subscribed to it. Nice obfuscation by the way :D

@LP Shadow, I appreciate that. Btw, I published the PB script version. There's a link to it at the top of this page.

Of course I won't do it, i respect ownership :) That's the reason I asked, because I don't want to be an asshole :)

@LP Shadow, yeah, I wrote the code originally as a PB script and converted it to a TSS mod, so the work is done. I just need to get it posted. And I agree that extracting it from the mod would be kinda crappy. Please don't do that. :) I'll have the script posted soon enough.

@Jackson The Red Foxo Nope, it's just a mixture of technical terms from low-level computer programming, computer networking, Linux boot sequence, nuclear facility operation, and particle accelerator operations, plus a helping of made-up Sci-fi lingo. Absolutely nothing to do with anything going on in the world.

I get that it's supposed to be jargon, but is anything that pops up relevant to what the ship's doing?

Cool, thanks! I mean, I could extract it frrom this mod as well, but would seem unfair to me :)

@LP Shadow Yeah I have it as a script as well, but I haven't published it yet. Been pretty busy. I'll get it uploaded when I get a chance.

Could you possibly provide this as an ingame script? That way it would also work with mod-free builds :) Besides that, this looks really good!

@matynipps Glad you like it!

This looks great, been looking for something like this to use in my builds. @Patrick thank you so much for sharing!

Hey, glad to hear it! There is no speed setting, but I think I can add a config file to adjust the speed. It will affect all of them though in the game though.

I can do one that does pseudo-air traffic control statements. Do you have some source material you can send me to work from?

Skallabjorn LOVES this.... is there a setting to slow it down / speed it up by chance?

Can you do one that does pseudo-air traffic control type statements?