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A simple idea for a sliding glass door for 1.8 glass panes; only requires 4 redstone, 2 levers, as many glass panes as you want, and four sticky pistons ( or regular, just personal preference, looks better).
The levers work in a fashion that is simple, but unique. If both levers from the inside are ON, the levers on the outside will NOT function. If the levers on the outside are ON the levers on the inside will NOT function.
Thought it'd look nice for a modern home/texture pack, maybe leading out to a small deck on the outside of the house.
http://imgur.com/tFqA6<-- There are two redstones on both sides of the pistons, for each side of the sliding glass door. The two levers power the redstone, if the lever on the bottom-right is powering the piston, the lever on the top-right can't be un-powered, because it still has a source of power.
Why not buttons? It would work with buttons instead of levers, but you would either have to use a flip-flop redstone logic gate, and that would take up a large amount of space, so levers would be the ideal method for doing this.
Can I use regular glass? Yes, but glass panes would be much more glass door-like, since most of them in real life aren't bullet proof 10 inch thick glass, Mr. President. Also, glass panes have a smaller bounding box (the area around an object that gives it physical matter, if it didn't have one it would be intangible (you could walk through it)).
Schematic : <-- Redstone on the planks. <---- X
<-- Redstone on the planks.
= Lever
= 2 block high material
= Material
= Piston
x = Empty Space
The glass should actually move, it would only fill the full space there if there's blocks adjacent to it (in other words, it connects its edges to blocks aside)
TO OP: This seems like a pretty neat idea, and providing that there's not some unexpected results, I can see it being used pretty well :happy.gif: Although may not be the easiest to implement
Thanks for the positive feedback. There are wood planks in front of the pistons, so that they push the glass to one side, I put the planks there because it wouldn't be very nice to see a piston plunger sticking out of the wall.
My better computer broke down, so I'm having to use an older model of Windows XP. I would've made a video if I could, but Fraps™ is not compatible with my version.
If, by some freak chance the usual nonsense I generate seems to help you, there's a nice shiny green + button to tell me that I'm doing the right thing
A simple idea for a sliding glass door for 1.8 glass panes; only requires 4 redstone, 2 levers, as many glass panes as you want, and four sticky pistons ( or regular, just personal preference, looks better).
http://imgur.com/TEINz Levers off, from outside.
http://imgur.com/VpcLt Levers on, from outside. (Lockout system for SMP servers, so nobody hides in your base, eatin' all yo cookies.)
http://imgur.com/o8nan Levers off, from inside. (Lockout works one-way, or it would be absolutely redundant.)
http://imgur.com/taAHC Levers on, from inside.
The levers work in a fashion that is simple, but unique. If both levers from the inside are ON, the levers on the outside will NOT function. If the levers on the outside are ON the levers on the inside will NOT function.
Thought it'd look nice for a modern home/texture pack, maybe leading out to a small deck on the outside of the house.
http://imgur.com/tFqA6 <-- There are two redstones on both sides of the pistons, for each side of the sliding glass door.
The two levers power the redstone, if the lever on the bottom-right is powering the piston, the lever on the top-right
can't be un-powered, because it still has a source of power.
Why not buttons?
It would work with buttons instead of levers, but you would either have to use a flip-flop redstone logic gate, and that would take up a large amount of space, so levers would be the ideal method for doing this.
Can I use regular glass?
Yes, but glass panes would be much more glass door-like, since most of them in real life aren't bullet proof 10 inch thick glass, Mr. President. Also, glass panes have a smaller bounding box (the area around an object that gives it physical matter, if it didn't have one it would be intangible (you could walk through it)).
Schematic :
<-- Redstone on the planks.
<---- X
<-- Redstone on the planks.
= Lever
= 2 block high material
= Material
= Piston
x = Empty Space
Thanks for the feedback! I could explain how it works with the redstone, it is similar to the hidden redstone bookshelf.
Edit: for you
I lol'd
Thanks for the positive feedback. There are wood planks in front of the pistons, so that they push the glass to one side, I put the planks there because it wouldn't be very nice to see a piston plunger sticking out of the wall.
If you already knew what it was, then why did you even click the thread?
My better computer broke down, so I'm having to use an older model of Windows XP. I would've made a video if I could, but Fraps™ is not compatible with my version.
Good idea!
but really, a schematic thread.yawn.change it to a mod request and I might be more interested