*keeping the max of 32 gw of power it currently has*?

Would you buy chance be able to release a version of this mod that scales up to 400-500 ls (120 -150 million km)?

Hit l and scroll MMW to move item away on PC

you will need a mod that increases placement distance

I been trying to place this for the past 2 hours but my character is in the way of the hit box. Help!

I don't remember if this is correct, but I believe this antenna is set to the max range you can possibly set a antenna to in SE

This mod is really cool after doing some research if your antenna was in reality the radius of your signal is 0.0 5 of an astronomical units in other words whoever is doing the real star system thing when that is finished you could use two or five of these antennas to have a massive relay between planets in the star system assuming everything is properly scaled to reality I can't live without this mod but I don't suppose you're playing on making an antenna that is even more ridiculous than this antennas range like 10 astronomical units or more?

As the mountpoints on a object/grid increase, so do the calculations for adding/removing blocks, if I am remembering correctly. (so same will also happen with mega large grid sizes)
I only added mountpoints to the bottom, but my model for it is on my pc, but it is not workin till I get a new cpu for it, but I will check it out (once my pc works) to make sure I wasn't too crazy with the mountpoint stuff. . .
(which reminds me, I def want to redo the model of my "blackhole reactor" cuz wow is it ugly, and the amount of mountpoints it has is insane, even 1 will get ya to that limit lmao.)

I was just playing with this and while I love the concept of a Giant Radio Dish, I was having an issue where adding or removing blocks to a structure that had the dish caused the game to hang for a second or two, which makes it largely unworkable.

As far as I know that is "hard coded" or at least I don't have the skill to surpass it currently

I was wondering, If you tested the visible signal range?
As i'm also modding/upgrading Antenna's can all visible signal stop at 500km??
Yes I can still take control with remote block past that if MaxRange is set higher then 500km, but I can't see the signal, after passing 500km mark!!

Antenna 1 would reach the other, but Antenna 2 wouldn't reach antenna 1, so it would only allow 1 way communication, so you wouldn't be able to receive any signals from antenna 2

visual example:
()=range ( Ant1 ( Ant2 ))

(sorry I couldn't reply sooner, since I was off at a friends house for a few days.)

Question: maybe I'm not quite understanding how antennas work. If I have a deep space antenna on "Base A" set at say 8,000,000m range and a vanilla antenna on "Base B" set at 50,000m range and the bases are 5,000,000m apart, shouldn't they still be able to communicate since in theory the broadcast ranges still overlap? Or do both need an antenna with at least 5,000,000m range?

Awesome Mod honestly, makes finding custom planets easier lol. Just plop one of these bad boys down and make sure it's powered and protected.

Alright thank you

I use: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=514062285
(Allows you to zoom out blocks more than vanilla) I just added it to the desc, since i forgot to last time lol.

How do you place it? I can't seem to do it

Your text has a typo, its 8 GigaMeters or 8 Million Km. Otherwise great mod, functional better than the 're-skinned' antenna dish from frostbite!

look at the gameplay while im in-game

sp

Hm, it works for me. . . are you in mp or sp? maybe mp does something weird . . .

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nice keep me updated :D

hm, maybe the update changed something, ima go check

One more thing, I am unable to change the broadcast radius. once I clicked, it dropped from full range to 1m then Whatever I do with the dragable thingy the radius stay at 1m.

Also once build. When I place block arround it the game freeze for like 1-2 secondes. I have a very high-end computer so it is not the problem

Is it possible to make a more expensive version ?

Oh realy thx, I had an issue with BuildInfo (extra block&terminal info, air leak finder) I remove it 2 days ago I just forgot what was the issue but if I can just place it ddown then ill be ok after that. Thank you

I would recommend using: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=514062285
with it, since it also increases your placement range depending on the block size.

I dont understand How i am supposed to place this on a grid. Im like inside the object when Iam trying to place it

This is a GREAT mod to have and use when combined with this mod

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2005304193&tscn=1583115884

and even then you have to have more than one of them

I have the Deep Space Transciever and it looks great but it is modeled on an earth station so the antenna will not point straight up or straight ahead. Fine for on the ground but a pain when mounted on a ship. It's great that it can aim itself but it doesn't have the range of motion a regular laser antenna has and if laser antennas are not perfectly aligned they don't work.

I can mount these dishes on rotors and pretend that aiming them matters. Might be fun if there was a way to have them work better the closer that are to alignment, as in if the dish is facing the antenna it's communicating with, the more likely you make a connection at greater distance. Otherwise it's a great decorative mod that's also functional. A hard combination to pass up :)

or to say it other side ....
The old mod have ...

a mod size of 1/100
a propper collisions model
Animation
the right scaling for the details on the model
but dont work nice atm ....

My mod:
Has a 4x longer range (of course that also means it costs more power to run),
a larger model,
currently has no animations,
probably costs more resources,
and is "up to date"
(looks like the last update for that mod was in 2015).

I am basing this off the stats on the mod's page.

(the page seems to also imply that it acts like a laser antenna(??) mine acts like a vanilla antenna.)

what's the difference between this and https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=405233525

Oh and I added a "bare" Dish model.

Oof, sorry it took so long for me to update the model, the model in total was made up of 155k faces, but I lowered it to around 45k faces, so it should not only make the mod's file size smaller, but also improve performance :)

@SirConnery - you can. There are two options: 1 with the support structure included, and one that you can attach to (for example) a rotor.

It's great to have a large dish antenna in the game and the option to drop it onto your own rotor is fantastic. Unfortunately it's just too big for my laptop; not your problem, mine. Oh well.

Always wanted to add Antenna dish to my game. Is it possible to make just a "dish" version of the antenna so I can build my own different support structures and a rotor for it?

Also a Laser Antenna version would be welcome.

Tomorrow I am gonna see what I can do with the model, seems one part makes up 70-80% of the verts/faces on the model lul. so hopefully that will dramatically reduce the mods size again :P

ööhh 500 MB!?

Whoops, I forgot to remove the textures I didn't end up using :I the mod should be a bit smaller now.

ööhh 770 MB!?

Good mod, would be great if it was animated and moved to receive and send transmissions. Thank you for this...

it acts like a vanilla antenna, currently has no animations

(forgot to add this)

another than that EPIC mod

2 questions

1- Does it act like a normal antenna or laser antenna?

2- In relation to the first question does it move? (only if its a laser antenna)

Thanks :)

totally cool

nice very cool