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Thermal Mechanics (Functional* No longer maintained)

*There are issues on dedicated servers, be careful when installing this mod.
**As for locally hosted worlds the mod functions, but do be wary of using powerful modded blocks and/or installing into already started games.

For clarification here, this mod does NOT affect NPC grid, and only is active on player made grids.

Here are some general hints: More mass = harder to change temperature; More radiators = more cooling power over time; Once some more solid numbers are decided for this then I'll add information regarding different radiators. For now: see below Block.

As many of you may have already guessed. I cannot continue work on the mod, my apologies, but I cannot work on it any more. Thank you for your support, if the mod functions well enough for you, then congratulations but from now one I do not plan on making any adjustments or updates.

Update 03/22
- Lowered heat generation
- Improved performance of regulators
- Looking into removing the inactive heatsinks and cleaning up code (something keeps breaking)
- Fixed one of the blocks not being active or not having correct build stages

Update 09/21
- Fixed heat exchangers and cooling towers not working.
- Increased overall effectiveness of radiators (see if too OP?)


Update 06/07/21
- New icon for Radiator Inline
- New icon for Radiator Panel
- New icon for Radiator Basic Heat Exchanger
- New icon for Radiator Medium Heat Exchanger
- Full component rebalance (now component costs make sense)


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Description: Thermal Mechanics adds a new game mechanic involving Heat. Ships now contains Core Temperature that you need to manage. Leaving your Ship in an Overheating state will cause its parts to get stressed and accumulate Damage. Reaching Critical Temperatures will cause a Catastrophic and Deadly Disaster.

Space is Hard Again
Heat management in space is very hard specially when you first start out. You'll have to plan your jumps and plan out your breaking maneuvers to go to your desired destination.

Goodbye bad Ship Designs, Welcome Engineering!
This mod encourages you to design your ships around heat. A poorly designed overpowered ship will overheat just as fast as it is overpowered. A Good well balanced ship design will reward you of easier Heat Management, so engineer smart!

Pretty Looking Damage And Explosions
If you are going to fail, fail in style as you watch your ship slowly burn and turns into a procedural derelict.

Core Temperature is the Temperature of your ship. you can see this while being seated on any Control block (Passenger Seats, Remote, Cockpits) or via PB Ingame-Scripting (more details below). Beside the Core Temperatures is the rate of change in Temperature, a Positive number means its accumulating heat, a negative number means its loosing heat.

There are many ways your ship can accumulate or loose heat, Terminal blocks generate heat and adds to your ship's core temperatures. Atmospheric Planets also influences this. While Cooling blocks takes away heat. Ships can also loose heat through Radiation in Space, but its slow.

There are a lot of factors that influences how your Ship handles heat. from its Design to what materials are the blocks made off, this is called your Ship's Heat Capacity (kilojoules/kilogram Kelvins). The Higher the Heat Capacity is, the harder it is to change in temperature. Your goal is to find the most efficient design together with Cooling blocks to find the perfect Equilibrium where the overall cooling is cancelling out your heat production. Movement in atmosphere will cool your grid.

Only grids that have player owned blocks are affected by Thermal Mechanics. This means grids that are spawned by the game and are owned by NPCs and their factions will not overheat.


Radiator Inline - Used for starting off and relatively low effectiveness (atmos only)
Radiator Panel - Used for non atmos cooling and slightly more expensive with while taking up more volume
XL Cooling Tower - Used for heavy cooling in atmosphere
Heat Exchanger - Higher level cooling and heating option as opposed to inlines. Can be used in and out of atmosphere. Comes in basic and medium.


- New icons (pt.1 released)

There are two configs available, WorldSettings.xml is available inside your world's save storage folder. While PlayerSettings.xml is in your local storage folder.

You can change your HUD's units by typing in the command "/thermalhud units k/c/f" Kelvin, Celsius and Farenheit respectively. this is saved in PlayerSettings.xml

Special Thanks to Meridius_IX and Reign for helping me out with ideas, balancing and testing.

I almost forgot this, thanks to reddit user u/Deathslay142 for this thread. Its were the mod idea was based on.

Aerodynamic Physics (Deadly Reentry + Drag + Flight)
- No integration yet, but still compliments each other nicely



Disclaimer!
Ensou: I am not a Physicist or a Mechanical Engineer, so my calculations in code might not be entirely accurate, and they are overly simplified for the sake of Gameplay.



Credits:
Ensou - Original Creator
Coggernaut - Tester/Server Admin for Solaris RP
GreysonXMG - Tester and designer
Tugspacehall - XL Cooling Tower models.

Testers and contributors
- Coggernaut - Tester/Server Admin for Solaris RP
- GreysonXMG - Tester and designer
- Vas Vadum - Tester
- ExGold - Tester
- General Space - Tester