Logic chip "then" output which signals when all logic inside the chip has processed
Could we get a new output on the logic chip. It will only product a signal when all of the descendants within have executed. Really useful for doing things where logic timing is important!
We can do this now by chaining logic chips but it can get very messy for anything complex!
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Maybe I'm understanding this incorrectly, but wouldn't that essentially be an AND gate?
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Kind of. You can can do cool stuff if you wire logic in series. Meaning you have basically one massive flow of interconnected logic like Christmas tree lights. The next chip only processing after the previous chip has completed.
The point of the suggestion is to add this to the logic chip. All logic in the chip would have to execute before the “then” signal is produced. So we could easily create very precisely timed logic and chain it together to execute in the same frame.
At the minute we can do this by adding an output node. The difficulty comes when you have more complex logic. You end up having to add bigger and bigger AND / OR / conditional logic infront of that output node.
Dreams is aware of the logic inside a chip. So I would assume that some process could be setup so that it can wait for all of its descendants before signalling out!
Basically I’m just trying to offer a suggestion that can add something new and fresh to the logic system.
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I usually do this by sticking a switch in the chip. Depends on the order or processing though, as I'm sure you know. So yeah, something explicit would be good. No idea how easy it would be to shift the order on the engine-side though...
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