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I haven't signed on to rec room in like 2 years so this is pretty out of date. No circuits v2 here. It uses a clamp to a trigger volume to a piston to the rocket model. When fired the clamp releases the trigger volume and the piston extends causing the rocket to travel on a path not connected to the launcher. The houses have volumes that detect the rocket and declamp the structure walls on hit. They are physical so they push away from each other. You can play with it here: rec.net/room/rocketrange

Fortunately I'm a developer :) I had a fair number of issues going on and eventually the suggestion from support was to create a new home and migrate everything over. That helped clean up a lot of issues. I also ended up combining the master bath and master bedroom into a single room logically so I can just walk in and say "lights on" without having to specify the bathroom specifically or the lights vs the bulbs. Normally I want them all on anyways and I'm willing to sacrifice a little bit of accuracy for convenience. Also, the ability to call cync scenes directly from google home was introduced a while back and that has resulted in much more consistent execution. I generally try to use those for any routine that handles multiple rooms, a room that I don't have a smart speaker in, or when I want specific lighting patterns in a room, such as fixtures on, but not overhead lights. Otherwise I use generic google home routines (no room specified) so I can say something like "lights level 4" and it works in any room without having to create a a "level 4" routine for every room in the house.

Yes, because it's consistently wrong. May not seem like much, but when you have smart lights in every room of your house it gets old real fast when your lights don't turn off and on when you press the switch. I have not yet migrated the lights in this video to the new home. The switch was still linked to the same home/room as the lights, it just doesn't show the switch in that screen in the app. Yes, the switch is wireless. I believe they were not keeping the switch state in sync with the lights. I made this video to pass to their support people about a year ago. Looks like they've resolved it since then with a software update.

@@syntael - From my experience after updating, deleting, and resetting everything a few days ago, the same issue still exists.

I haven't tried to recreate this one in a while. I had call with cync last week for other scene issues and they recommended I move all my lights it a new home in the cync app. It's a painful process, a lot of them need to be factory reset in order to add to the new house. However, after moving about half of them those lights have been much more responsive and my scenes have been executing much more consistently.

What did you mean move your lights to a new home? Like you moved them from google home to the Cync app?

@@SNWxGaming in the cync app you create a home and add your devices to it. You can have multiple homes defined. I created a new one and migrated my lights by deleting them and then adding them to the new one.

Unfortunately not. That's kind of what it's like to build rooms. They're hot for a short time then players are on to the next thing.

Check out war of the lions, probably my best pvp: czcams.com/video/xkF95xyuOaE/video.html

There are or chips in the state machine version. There is no need to scale to handle larger input in the invention version as it iterates over the input.

Pretty much the entire room was consumed by circuits. I cut corners everywhere I could with the exception of the dice and tumbler. I wanted there to be some connection to the physical game even if pressing a button and generating 2 random numbers would have been cheaper.

@@syntael It's very inspirational, especially now that Circuits V2 is being developed. I wonder what the limits of Rec Room will be in the near future. :)

@@Johannes00 Thank you. It was a fun build and for that purpose exactly. It took months and many refactors to find the ink to pull it off. It will interesting to see. The CV2 resource system is "heat" based rather than ink based so you're not taking away from adding detail to your room which is nice. Will be interesting to see what the room experience is like. If you exceed the amount of heat available your circuits stop executing I believe. I haven't built anything in over a year. I hope to come back some day.

​@@syntael Well said! But in the meantime I've found that, at least for my purposes, grouping chips into circuit boards lowers cost quite a bit! I'm actually fairly new to Rec Room (previously played Second Life) so it's a bit much to take in I'm noticing, haha.

@@Johannes00 I use circuit boards wherever I can, but unfortunately due to the number of connections needed they weren't really viable for Monopoly. I think I have 2 in there. My WaroftheLions room uses circuit boards quite extensively. The biggest ink savings I came up with for Monopoly was to make a central data serializer/deserializer circuit to read and write the static property data and store that data in state machine chips. That technique probably isn't cost effective for many builds, but it was for Monopoly because it reduced the amount of chips needed to store data per property.

Sure. It's just a way to visualize a percentage. I made it as something you could put over a boss. Attaching it to a player might be hokey. Might be better off using the HUD displays.

@@syntael Oh wow I didn't realize there was HUD displays in rec room editor, I'm currently working on a project and its hard to find any dev videos online.

Do you know anything about a banking script/money script?

@@Joshua-gp1ns I haven't played since the circuits v2 stuff went live. Shouldn't be hard to do though. I had a money and gambling system in one of my games using the leaderboard stats.

@@syntael wow that is awesome id love to see some of that stuff to refrence for my project if you dont mind, you should show some of your stuff ingame at some point my gamertag is CalmDeer572

This is really old, there's probably better ways to do this now. It uses a clamp to a trigger volume to a piston to the rocket model. When fired the clamp releases the trigger volume and the piston extends causing the rocket to travel on a path not connected to the launcher. The houses have volumes that detect the rocket and declamp the structure walls on hit. They are physical so they push away from each other.

@@syntael good to know

Sorry, I haven't really gotten on rec room in a few months now. It's not too complicated, it uses 3 pistons connected to each other to control movement in the x,y,z axis. There's a state machine that controls the looping and timing of the lightning strike. Each cycle it picks the random delay, waits, then pops the lightning bolt up to the map, flashes a light, turns the sky white, and plays a randomly selected thunder sound. Then it hides the lightning bolt again and the cycle repeats.

@@syntael Ahh, thanks. I'll try it out. I'll let ya know cause I bought the invention but I can't use it in a room I'm co-owning :')

Sorry, just saw this comment. Mood chips don't work there. That's how it makes the sky flash white. You'll still see the bolt and hear the noise, but you won't get the full effect.

@@syntael Oh okay thank you!

No, just something I was playing with.

@@syntael thanks for telling me

Thanks. I probably don't create enough content to get noticed. I use CZcams as a way to share ideas or explain how to play rooms I've built.

Select the chips, an ellipsis will pop up, then create circuit board. There is a limitation of 7 on the number of input and output pins.

@@syntael Thanks for your speedy response and amazing content. Too few people cover this aspect of the game and rec room really allows you to simulate complicated electronics. I am using way less ink now! I definitely plan to implement your cheap password but I think I want to build it myself! Thank you for helping the community learn, you're an amazing human resource

You can check if the input is larger than the key and if so reset the board. That's as simple as wiring a compare chip.

@@syntael also can you make a 0 button? If so how?

@@DJDyliano the cat button already does that. It puts the current number in the sequence

Thank you! I'm sorry about the time zone, that's a common issue. Unfortunately my Rec Room time is limited to after my kids are asleep. Most of my videos are just promos for rooms I've built and less informational. I do have a couple topics I would like to demonstrate. The syllabus for my course is public, you may find some good info in there and the circuits are visible in the lab rooms to anyone. I'm in the process of building out the lab solutions. I'm also pretty active in the Rec Room discord gadgets channel if you have questions.

Hi Justin! Thanks for your reply :) I've been playing Rec Room for a few years now, but I only recently got into circuits and I find it super exciting. I read the syllabus and visited your lab rooms. I will go back for a deeper dive as I learn more. Thanks again for creating and making all this material available!

Thank you for the help! I'm glad I got some great footage. I was mixed up calling the red and blue teams out of order, my camera got disarmed from me by a wizard one take, and my hands disconnected, but we still got it.

Thanks, it's going good so far. Excited to see how it does when it gets featured.

Yes it will. I built it in the sandbox room.

Thanks! There's a shorter promo video as well if you're interested, <2 mins. That one just gives some highlights and was actually edited. This one was longer, but gave me a chance to go a little more in-depth. czcams.com/video/ZfDVsJInPZw/video.html

There's a few things going on in this game, but ultimately I entered it in the pvp category for the contest. So each time you start a round the game takes 1/4 of your earned gold and that is your wager. If you win the first round you get your money back. If you win both rounds you double your money and steal the opponents wager to split amongst your team! There's two rounds, each team takes turns being the pirates and the guards. When you're on the water it's a naval battle, when you're on land you're fighting with flintlocks, cutlasses, and rum jugs. The game tracks your gold and your kills. There's also a capped kill bonus of 25 gold for each kill.

Thanks a lot! Hope it helps if you're interested in circuits or building custom rooms.

@@syntael No problem! I will probably use this if I make a room with a password!

It's not public yet due to the bug mentioned in the video, but I can certainly show you around if you message me in game.

Thanks, hope I can release it soon.

Not long, I had it working in one night, then took another to clean it up and record samplers. Then today I re-recorded the samplers cause they came out lousy and made the video.

Thanks, was a fun build.

I think I left a few neurons in there...

I started in December so about 4-5 months. The problem was I kept running into the ink limit so I'd have to go back and try to find new ways to optimize it. The last circuit update with state machines really are what made this room possible. Prior to that I was stuck. Once the state machines came out I had to go back and completely redo all the existing circuits to use state machines, but it got me the savings I needed to make the room possible.

@@syntael That should have been a real pain in the butt. Good luck on it

I set my vive to night mode when I work on circuits to cut down on eye strain :)

@@syntael well I can wait to see it and you seem like a circuit master

@@mr.crabbyturtle there's a lot of talented circuit folks out there. I'm a programmer so this stuff isn't too bad besides the ink restrictions.

@@syntael well to me you seen like a master cuz I cant use circuits at all