Knuckles:
That's nicely done. I'm working on that exact type of entrance for my underground base. I'll have a peek at your design if you don't mind [winky].
TheRealzJ:
Could anyone post a video explaining how to fix the entrance, becauseI'm have the piston problem as well. It would be much appreciated! Thank you.
Malphar:
It's a timing issue add a repeater with one tick to both sides as shown in the screen shot.
Nefashu:
--- Quote from: nperspective on July 30, 2011, 04:59:37 AM ---This is awesome. Great use of pistons. One question. When I import this into my map (chunk aligned or not) and flip the switch for the first time to reveal the entrance, the sand path pops up, the waterfall stops, and the bottom mossy stones move back and inward to the hiding position...however the top two mossy stones and the sticky pistons behind them do not. The top sticky pistons aren't being pulled into the hiding positions on the sides.
The top center sticky pistons retract pulling the mossy stones back but they end up just floating in the center, not being pulled in by the outer sticky pistons....I did a lot of trouble shooting with repeaters and timing and such...If I delete those top center sticky pistons and mossy stones and place another block where the sticky piston was....the outer pistons will pull that block in when I break the circuit (passage open)....those outer pistons just wont pull the sticky piston with attached stone back to completely open the entrance.
I believe what could be happening is a timing issue....I think the top center pistons and mossy stones are getting stuck in the center because the piston arms are not pulling the mossy stones back before the outer sticky pistons retract to pull everything in. Or in other words the top outer sticky pistons aren't retracting their arms at exactly the same time so the top center sticky pistons and the mossy stones will retract but still get stuck in the center.
Or maybe the sticky pistons are getting stuck in that center position simply due to becoming powered (to push the mossy stone out into "HIDDEN ENTRANCE" position). I'm not entirely familiar with the properties of sticky pistons when they're combined and powered like this.
Yours seems to work fine...how? Different schematic?
I attached pictures to try and help explain. Picture 1 is what it should look like when the circuit is broken (passage opened) Picture 2 is what mine looks like after breaking the circuit (opening the passage) straight from the schematic import Picture 3 I removed the mossy stones to show you the inside pistons stuck floating in the center Picture 4 after replacing the inside pistons with red wool, the sticky pistons pulled the wool back where it should....but it wont pull the inside sticky piston back in.
Thanks for your help!
EDIT: Figured it out.....it was a timing/powering issue...just gota go back to your wiring and retime those sticky pistons so that the outer pistons power off AFTER the inner pistons (I attached two more pics) thanks for the schematic! :mobpig:
--- End quote --- This a long post hehe :D Thanks, always ready to learn more xP