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Battery & Gas

Program Battery & Gas
by Seamus Donohue of EVE University
Saturday, April 23, 2022, Space Engineers version 01.200.032

This program displays the current and maximum amounts of energy, oxygen, and hydrogen on the construct (ship or station) on a text surface of all blocks of that same construct whose Custom Data field contains the keyword "BatteryAndGas" (without the quotes). If the block has multiple text surfaces, then a number must be included on the same line in the Custom Data field, such as "BatteryAndGas 0" or "BatteryAndGas 1".

If a block (such as a cockpit) has multiple text surfaces, then the keyword and an integer needs to appear on a single line in the Custom Data for the block.

The arguments "showzero", "hidezero", and "togglezero" control whether this program will display "No Storage" or simply nothing for resource types that don't have any storage blocks present. For example, if the construct does not have any gasoline tanks, then "hidezero" will omit gasoline being mentioned in the display and "showzero" will display "Gas: No storage".

The argument "all" will show the sum total resources for all connected ships and stations.
The argument "ship" will resume the default behavior of only counting the resources of the ship the Programmable Block running this script is located on.
This program does not, under any circumstances, attempt to display information on text surfaces in other constructs.