How to make a three way motor group with block code

[AMERICAN_DRIVE]

How do you make a three way motor group with block coding? Thanks!

[74100Y-Luke]

You can’t. I know there is a way to do it in VS Code for V5, but since you are in VEXcode IQ, I don’t think that VS Code is supported

[jpearman]

You can, if using a gen 2 IQ brain (ie. Using blocks that generates Python)

How to make a motorgroup with 3 motors in VEXcode blocks

There was a comment here that blocks only allows two motors in a motorgroup. While on the surface that is true, the graphical configuration only allows two motors, with a little hacking and using switch blocks we can add as many more as we want (and a little insider knowledge I will share). Lets say we want motors on ports 10, 11 and 12 to be part of a motor group. We start by making a motor group using ports 10 and 11 (select 10 as the first motor when creating it), next we create a single…

[AMERICAN_DRIVE]

For v5 not IQ. Thanks

[turbodog]

Or just control all 3 using separate commands for each motor, one after the other. It will be fine.

[AMERICAN_DRIVE]

Not in push back. You need motor groups for this game.

[jpearman]

@AMERICAN_DRIVE

For v5 not IQ. Thanks

Well, you posted in an IQ category.
Same concept (using switch blocks) would work for V5.

[Foster]

This would be my answer.

But I have an add on question. It looks like motor groups is just syntax sugar. Is there any benefit to motor groups over making a function that just runs the three motors as 3 separate commands?

[turbodog]

My take has always been that 3 separate commands, stacked together, are essentially the same as a group. The brain cycles through commands at the “speed of cpu”… so the millisecond delay does not matter to the motors which run at the “speed of physics”.

It also allows you, running separately, to query motors for temp, watts, degrees, rpm, etc.