Stormworks - Lua GPS Display Tutorial

[@soundwaveblue]

Did... did you just help me understand Lua? I'm tellin ya, you are carrying SW educational content. Dunno what I'd do without these vids.

[@terr-rawr-saur]

I hope I did. Something simple like this where we are only processing 2 numbers and doing something useful seemed like a good entry point to me.

[@okdude9574]

instructions unclear, showed my coordinates irl (thank you)

[@terr-rawr-saur]

Glad it helped.

[@justinwilliams4100]

I've been turned off from this game thanks to the steep as all hell learning curve, but this was infinitely helpful and you explained what did what instead of blowing through it like most tutorials I watch. I thank you sir.

[@terr-rawr-saur]

Glad it helped. :)

[@ablanco1453]

Very useful and simple. Even a newbie in the game like me understand it!

[@Mass2269]

Can you please show how to make the one you have in your survival series? (the dont get lost unit) thanks!

[@terr-rawr-saur]

That one is a little tricky to fully explain. I've used a lot of code provided by Trapdoor. But I will be cleaning it up and releasing it as its own controller soon.

[@kors7566]

I just tried using this code, but it is not working. It is showing an error, which says 11: bad argument #3 to 'format' (number expected, got nil). I don't know what it means or if I did something wrong, but there has just been an update. Can you help me?

[@terr-rawr-saur]

Something is probably wrong in your onTick function. The only way I could replicate it was by not specifying a channel to read. It should say getNumber(1) and getNumber(2) or any channel you are reading gps data from as this example below. function onTick() gpsx = input.getNumber(1) gpsy = input.getNumber(2) end If it were to say input.getNumber() with nothing in the brackets it will error because it is not receiving anything. not even a 0. If the channels are set to the wrong channel your co-ordinates will at least output 0.

[@derkurier4171]

I don't know if you or someone else read this, but i did the exact same thing and after all it didn't show me anything. Maybe someone can help me by this?

[@terr-rawr-saur]

I don't know what you are referring to, if your display isn't showing anything, it might just not be turned on.

[@Abdullah-mn6sw]

Idk why but I thought for this we'd need to send a satellite or forever flying plane in the sky.

[@terr-rawr-saur]

Perhaps the thumbnail is misleading :D but I thought it looked nice.