Gas and Liquid Pipe nad normal Thermo Sensors inconsistent default states

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding but to change the state of a pipe sensor you have to actually put some kind of substance triggering the requirements to change.

Moving vacuum by a temperature sensor will not change its state, same with a germ sensor.

Yea, no, that's okay, I understand that not being able to trigger the temperature change in vacuum and in empty pipes might be by design. It still does show a readout temperature (absolute zero, -273.2), so one would expect that setting it to "below X" for any X would always set it to true or active, and "above X" for any X would always set it to false or inactive. If they give a fixed logical value by design, I would find a message saying "not in gas/liquid/whatever" more intuitive then an apparent readout of absolute zero.

But, the actual problem is that the "default" signal those three sensors give is not consistent (look at images). The empty liquid pipe thermal sensor gives "false" always, the empty gas pipe thermal sensor gives "true" always, and the plain thermal sensor in vacuum gives always "false". Why always "true" for empty gas pipe thermal sensor, if the other two are fixed to false?

Additionally, for the plain thermal senson, when you click on it the Status field says "Active" when it is in vacuum, even if it is giving an inactive "false" signal (look at my last image).

Edited September 6, 2018 by riwenna

Ah, in that case I think the pipe sensors got fixed as part of another bug report and it should be okay in the released branch.

The world space sensors need a pass though, I'll take a look. Thanks!

Currently, in the live branch, the gas pipe temperature sensor is still default "true" while both of the other ones were default "false" (and by default in this case I mean, when there's no liquid/gas in the pipes/surroundings). I haven't buit the other ones but doesn't seem much different as far as these sensors go.

Just.. double check the consistency of their beheviour in vacuum, and their "status" text as compared to what they actually output

Can you try rebuilding the pipe sensors? I believe they save their state so if they were spawned before the fixes and saved their incorrect default state they won't fix themselves.

In my test scenes if I build the pipe sensors I can't get them to default to on.