The Ultimate Guide to when to use wires and channels (UPDATED)

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Wires are the basic way of making a cause-and-effect reaction, like so

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They have alot of use, like

  • Making a button deactivate when another is pressed
  • Having a teir system requiring the last tier to be bought first
  • Let players teleport with a button

They also have a few downsides, like

  • They cost memory
  • you cant have multiple Causes and effects between 2 devices
  • Can be messy, which can make editing a pain
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    (I like wires, maybe a bit too much. They all broadcast the same channel (^_^)/ )
    Channels are like wires, but larger range
    They can be used to
  • Remove a lot of props at once (More then 6)
  • Massive actions that happen with one cause
    But they have a big issue:
    They broadcast to everything
    Wires are like whispering, only the cause is heard by only on effect,
    Channels are like a Megaphone, Anyone can hear the cause, making precise actions harder
    Now for the more-or-less fun stuff

Singal convertor
This is a way of turning a wire/channel into a different channel/wire. this is performed in two ways:

Prop Converter
A prop converter is the cheaper way of converting a channel broadcast into a wire. this is done by setting a prop to hide when a channel is received, and then an outgoing wire with the cause being “when prop hidden”
This has two pros:
Cheaper
Can be an “AND” switch, meaning that duplicate responses don’t happen unless reset
Trigger Converter
Its very similar to a prop converter, but can do channel-channel or wire-channel conversions.
its more expensive in terms of memory, but is much more common among the community.
Wire Duper
This is where you use a wire repeater with litttle delay to have 1 cause have 2 effects. Very useful.
Thanks
Remember: no negativity in the comments. leave that for the bot

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what is that monstrosity of wires

cool

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Cool guide
(p.s. are you doing wire art? That “thing” of wire seems like art)

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The wires look like it’s some
 sign.

Cool guide, btw!

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That is my MESH network for a class system. Could of used channel, i knew this but choose not to

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This looks good


aren’t tugs usually wikis? And I think you should always use channels except when you have to use wires


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I know, I should of, I couldnt resist the urge to do it after my other MESH networks

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wires are visual, which can help with debugging

you cannot tell me to not use wires

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THATS THE SPIRIT eiqcrmeliutgwhc

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Wires are for the weak, and this is wrong:

Just don’t make anything else listen on that channel lol. You make your game, not random stuff.

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Nice guide!

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How is that quate wrong. your solution is channel isolation

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This is a great guide, thanks!

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hasn’t this already been done in like the gimkit creative help thing or something? Nice guide though

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wdym

like what you mean megaphone

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It sends the signal out to the whole game

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The “trigger converter” you mentioned is what I call a ‘signal pusher,’ and more widely it is capable of taking a signal from one channel and converting it to another. Counters are the cheapest ones so far (unless you use the cursed property pushing method :skull: ).

Overall, good observation!

But yeah, please use channels unless you absolutely have to use wires.

eiq, my guy

be better

chat thats a joke

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wat

what bot lol

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Some guides have a bot from gimkit thats says what you do wrong and what you did well

This is from his pixel art guide, shoutout to him

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I have said i before and ill say it again
I like wires
Wires are my friends
I like to make MESH networks with wire

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GimAI is dead.
And wires are silly. Just plain silly.