Rotating Plus

This is a repost as @Volt found a shortcut. Your ToA is removed so now you can play the level.

Spoiler: Trick List

- low ceiling

Spoiler: Hints

- the plus rotor can be stopped for safe passage, just raise the lift by the motor
- the plus rotor can be started up with the lift by the motor, just raise slightly and then lower

Spoiler: Video Solution

I had to resort to the video just to see how to start the whole thing (the low ceiling bit is a little different than what I've seen before). I also noticed that the lift / slider that starts / stops the rotator sometimes gets stuck in the top position and won't budge, at least on my device... I think that's another v2 bug, as sliders aren't moving as easily as they used to.

@D.S.Masters - My slider gets stuck up sometimes but I've never had to restart because of it and I'm using the new version too.

Great use of the rotor & clever gameplay...Thanks for sharing @Meko Guy

Very enjoyable level and i liked the secondary use of the ball.

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I have to ask again this question. Why is the "plus" rotor not moving at the beginning even though I expect it to act like an automatic rotor? I assume some sort of sensor was added underneath the grass block?

@P_simorf No sensor needed - you've got opposing motors on it, each trying to turn in a different direction.

@P_simorf - I'm glad that @D.S.Masters answered the question as I didn't know.

@Meko Guy (shrug) no clue... all I know is that it jammed in the 'up' position one time, and I couldn't get it to move. @cpw and @Gepeto are chatting in one of the other channels on Discord, and apparently a motor / draggable combination no longer works as it used to, and sliders are also a little buggy.

@Meko Guy I played with something like that (opposing motors) in one of my levels a couple of years ago, but couldn't get any real control over the moving piece, so I scrapped it - you've done a better job here, and I never would have thought of scraping the side of the motor to rotate the piece.

@D.S.Masters - This level was made with V1.1 but finalized with V1.2.7 and based on the video - all was okay. The sticking happen in V1.1 sometime but even there I didn't need to restart.

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I actually tried motors that are one block away and it turned automatically. Maybe I should try to add more blocks in between to see the effect of it not moving initially.

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I tested it. There's something with the arms of a plus-shaped rotor that makes it not moving at the beginning. I assume these arms create static equilibrium.

If you make the motor T-shaped instead, the motor is still moving at the beginning

I've finally applied my learnings from physics hahaha.

@P_simorf Yep - equal weight and balance cancel out (for the most part) the motor's attempt to turn.

Okay, I'll try