I'm sure there is a more futuristic way for putting text on walls....
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Nuclear Controls "Information Panels" using Text cards. The advanced versions allows you to put them flat on a surface and do not require external redstone signals. You can increase the size of them by adding Extenders much like you would with CC monitors.
And that would be another solution: ComputerCraft monitors. But rather over the top IMO as you would need Computers for the Monitors and scripts for the text. But can easily be done.
That reminds me...Ieldra, @rhn does some neat stuff where he displays his power storage. He's too modest or I'm sure he'd plug it himself.
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/thr...nd-guide-collection.42664/page-11#post-686258
Also, Reika does a neat thing with column incrementers to light up a vertical stack of redstone lamps depending how much power is present. Looks better than it sounds, but I don't have a link offhand.
PS: if you haven't already, basically all of rhn's thread is worthwhile to steal ideas from.
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/thr...nd-guide-collection.42664/page-11#post-686258
Also, Reika does a neat thing with column incrementers to light up a vertical stack of redstone lamps depending how much power is present. Looks better than it sounds, but I don't have a link offhand.
PS: if you haven't already, basically all of rhn's thread is worthwhile to steal ideas from.
Ahh I think I know which one you are thinking of now, the "Display screen"? AFAIK(not actually tried it) that displays the text as a free standing hologram, and not actually on a wall.
If you mean those CC monitors displaying the stats of my Big Reactors reactors/turbines, it is something I nicked from someone else
You can find links to it in the thread.Have been meaning to do something similar to monitor my main energy storage(the EnderIO capacitor bank), just never got around to sitting down and writing the script for it
Yeah, I've looked at some of that. Very nice! But what are column incrementers? I have some ideas about displaying the status of my subsystems, but nothing for power levels yet.
BTW, thanks to everyone for your answers!
Remember Reika posting a thread somewhere about the proper use of those incrementers. But not where(you can probbly find it through a search).
@Tikkamasala posted a simle to use little CC script for visually monitoring power storage devices in my little thread:
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/thr...and-guide-collection.42664/page-9#post-654978
Really easy to use, just smack down a Computer adjacent to the storage device and then the row of monitors adjacent to the computer. You might need to edit the directions in the script(directions of the storage and monitor compared to the computer).
I believe its from his ExpandedRedstone mod, but you could likely mimic the behavior using comparators and something like rednet cable (or redwire if you can keep lines separated, I forget)
drop a computercraft computer somewhere, make a wall of monitor blocks where one of the monitor blocks shares a face on the computer, and do something like this:
save that to "hello"
and launch it with: monitor <side> hello
where <side> is the face of the computer touching the monitor, being one of front, back, top, bottom, left or right, front being the black face with a cursor/prompt on the computer. if the text is too small or big, experiment with the setTextScale command to change the size of the text. if you use the advanced computers/monitors (the golden faced versions) then you can play with foreground/background colors and customize it
Code:
term.write("hello world!")save that to "hello"
and launch it with: monitor <side> hello
where <side> is the face of the computer touching the monitor, being one of front, back, top, bottom, left or right, front being the black face with a cursor/prompt on the computer. if the text is too small or big, experiment with the setTextScale command to change the size of the text. if you use the advanced computers/monitors (the golden faced versions) then you can play with foreground/background colors and customize it