NOT GATES (inverters)

EDIT FROM LIKE 5 MINUTES AFTER THE ORIGINAL PUBLISH: These actually aren’t not gates. But they’re still useful.

(you will not believe how long this took me to wrap my head around.)

What are “not gates?” They are functions that invert an input to the exact opposite. For example, if you input +1 into a smart stretch node’s length, and have it connected to a not gate, then it will output -1 length into any connected nodes.

TL;DR – They turn a true to a false, or vice versa— they invert things.

But how do you create a not gate in Sticknodes? It’s very simple. All you need is 3 nodes.

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Start by creating a singular node, and marking it “is stretchy” and “smart stretch.”

After that’s done, attach another node to the one you just made, and make it static. But this time, you want to also mark it as not smart stretch.

We’re already 2/3 of the way done. There’s just one more node to create.
Create a third node, and make sure it’s facing the exact opposite of the first one.
Mark it as static.
Make sure “don’t smart stretch” is off for this node.

And that’s it! You should be done. Click “test smart stretch” and move the first node around, you should be seeing the third node going the exact opposite direction.

Now you’re less confused on why the tutorial square arcionek posted works.

There’s probably way too many uses for this for me to list. Give me 10 likes now.