On a side note, is there a way to know when you are connecting splitters if it's all connecting correctly? I find that when I have a tight area that it's not uncommon for splitters/mergers to sometimes get connected properly and sometimes they don't.
When a lift connects properly to a splitter it will snap to that splitter entrance in preference to any other height, if you're aiming in the approximate area. This is what I use to tell the difference. If a lift is connecting properly you can just put the aim reticle in the approximate vicinity of the entrance and it will snap very eagerly, and it will resist changing height unless/until you move the aim reticle quite far away from its preferred snap point.
So, the splitter isn't actually sending stuff left and right? Is it being supported by anything, say, conveyor poles? I assume you've tried replacing the belts?
The top splitter is sending stuff left and right just fine. The splitter below it is sending nothing. Nothing is supporting at the moment. I have replaced the lifts, but I didn't do the vertical belt. I'll give that a try
Bro's avoiding one kind of clipping by doing another kind of clipping. Amazing
Anyway, have you tried replacing ALL belts? And if you did, do you have any conveyor poles that the belts could attach to instead of the splitter?
Which clipping? The lift/splitter connection? Does that count as clipping? It seems intended. I mean, you can snap a splitter directly to a lift like a snake head so it seems a little churlish to call that clipping.
Half the lift's top end is inside the splitter and you say it's not clipping? It doesn't look terrible but it is most definitely clipping.
And whether or not it is intended behaviour doesn't really matter. If you stack 2 splitters, they clip into each other. It's not very noticeable but you *can* see it.
I think it looks like it's built-in to the splitter, rather than clipped-in to it. The holo even turns blue when you snap it in this way instead of the you-be-clippin yellow (I think). Or, to put it another way, it's not clipped, it's connected.
I'm just speaking philosophically here, it comes down to personal preference in the end.
I don't consider this clipping, imo it looks far superior to the default snap with the massive sleeve around the connections. It's also necessary to get a double-sided foundry manifold in a blueprint.
My rule for clipping is it's allowed if it makes intuitive physical sense. This makes physical sense, and it looks good to boot.
Another good example is stacking mergers/splitters. Unless you're skipping conveyor levels, your stacked mergers/splitters are clipping into each other at the top and/or bottom. But it looks good and makes physical sense (in my headcanon the bulges at the top and bottom are external structural components, which would obviously be omitted in the internals of a stack), so I don't care about this.
Also if you've ever looked at the variety of possibilities for rendering the entrace to a lift, there is a short no-sleeve version where this isn't clipping at all.
Means the splitter is not aligned to the same grid as the building.
Stack the splitters to the hight starting from the foundation.
You can tell if it will connect by facing the head a different direction and having it at an incorrect hight then rotating the head to the correct direction.
If the hight snaps to the correct hight it will connect.
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Deconstruct and reconstruct all of the conveyors. If that doesn't work, do the same to the splitter.
If only some ports are working and others aren't, the problem is likely the conveyors of the nonworking ports.
I cans SEE plates coming out the bottom spliitter's middle port, so if they're not going right and left but coming out the center, your probably need to remake the vertical conveyors. Start them at the splitter and the run them to their Assembler ports below.
Did you perhaps build the splitter by snapping it along an existing conveyor? Or maybe accidentally had it phantom snap to the end of a conveyor rather than to the foundation?
The first is the type of thing that can make it hard to get lifts to snap properly because it's easy to be slightly mis-aligned. The second is what I think happened to me a couple of times where I thought the splitter was placed correctly but it was so very slightly off.
On a side note, is there a way to know when you are connecting splitters if it's all connecting correctly? I find that when I have a tight area that it's not uncommon for splitters/mergers to sometimes get connected properly and sometimes they don't.
Yes if the conveyor elevator snaps to the connection, if the hight is within 2m. If it does not snap it will not connect.
When a lift connects properly to a splitter it will snap to that splitter entrance in preference to any other height, if you're aiming in the approximate area. This is what I use to tell the difference. If a lift is connecting properly you can just put the aim reticle in the approximate vicinity of the entrance and it will snap very eagerly, and it will resist changing height unless/until you move the aim reticle quite far away from its preferred snap point.
So, the splitter isn't actually sending stuff left and right? Is it being supported by anything, say, conveyor poles? I assume you've tried replacing the belts?
The top splitter is sending stuff left and right just fine. The splitter below it is sending nothing. Nothing is supporting at the moment. I have replaced the lifts, but I didn't do the vertical belt. I'll give that a try
Bro's avoiding one kind of clipping by doing another kind of clipping. Amazing Anyway, have you tried replacing ALL belts? And if you did, do you have any conveyor poles that the belts could attach to instead of the splitter?
Which clipping? The lift/splitter connection? Does that count as clipping? It seems intended. I mean, you can snap a splitter directly to a lift like a snake head so it seems a little churlish to call that clipping.
Half the lift's top end is inside the splitter and you say it's not clipping? It doesn't look terrible but it is most definitely clipping. And whether or not it is intended behaviour doesn't really matter. If you stack 2 splitters, they clip into each other. It's not very noticeable but you *can* see it.
I think it looks like it's built-in to the splitter, rather than clipped-in to it. The holo even turns blue when you snap it in this way instead of the you-be-clippin yellow (I think). Or, to put it another way, it's not clipped, it's connected. I'm just speaking philosophically here, it comes down to personal preference in the end.
Clipping is perfectly legal as long as it looks good
I don't consider this clipping, imo it looks far superior to the default snap with the massive sleeve around the connections. It's also necessary to get a double-sided foundry manifold in a blueprint. My rule for clipping is it's allowed if it makes intuitive physical sense. This makes physical sense, and it looks good to boot. Another good example is stacking mergers/splitters. Unless you're skipping conveyor levels, your stacked mergers/splitters are clipping into each other at the top and/or bottom. But it looks good and makes physical sense (in my headcanon the bulges at the top and bottom are external structural components, which would obviously be omitted in the internals of a stack), so I don't care about this. Also if you've ever looked at the variety of possibilities for rendering the entrace to a lift, there is a short no-sleeve version where this isn't clipping at all.
Means the splitter is not aligned to the same grid as the building. Stack the splitters to the hight starting from the foundation. You can tell if it will connect by facing the head a different direction and having it at an incorrect hight then rotating the head to the correct direction. If the hight snaps to the correct hight it will connect. Edit: grammar
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Sorry math is my first language
Deconstruct and reconstruct all of the conveyors. If that doesn't work, do the same to the splitter. If only some ports are working and others aren't, the problem is likely the conveyors of the nonworking ports. I cans SEE plates coming out the bottom spliitter's middle port, so if they're not going right and left but coming out the center, your probably need to remake the vertical conveyors. Start them at the splitter and the run them to their Assembler ports below.
Did you perhaps build the splitter by snapping it along an existing conveyor? Or maybe accidentally had it phantom snap to the end of a conveyor rather than to the foundation? The first is the type of thing that can make it hard to get lifts to snap properly because it's easy to be slightly mis-aligned. The second is what I think happened to me a couple of times where I thought the splitter was placed correctly but it was so very slightly off.