This mod was last updated 10 years ago. If someone wanted to make a new version, they could have. The models are all just flat squares. I no longer have a modeler who can update things for me. I can't get the textures to look nice anymore as I'd need a texture artist as well. Mostly all I did was do the math to re-calculate the game's solar panels to be more accurate.

If you're using 10 year old save files, you should have known you'd have lots of issues.

Furthermore, the links are all there to see who made the parts that are in my mod. You want to continue their work, go to their profiles to ask for it.

I'm saying that you've screwed us, friend (your mod doesn't work).
If you've abandoned your mod, then pass it on to others, and give us a link to it so that we can continue using the mod.

I can't even tell what you're saying dude.

Exist analogues mod? Link indicate?

Any what?

No, there's no updates to this, and I won't be updating it. I don't have modders to help me update it.

Yea, this is long dead.

MOD_CRITICAL_ERROR: (DX11) Vas's Solar Panel Rebalance, in file: Unknown
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Nice

Unfortunately I still need a modeler and such. :P

@Vas Looking forward to seeing what you do with a rebuild on this, was one of my mainstay mods for the longest time

Hope to see your series revived! =)

I'm likely to rebuild this mod from scratch at some point and start over, with everything thats wrong in this one, I can't fully fix without breaking things. So I'll leave this up for anyone who still happens to use it.

Once a new version is out, I will see if I can make a tool to upgrade to the new version for any saves that still use this one. Once subscriber count drops below 1000 or a year has passed, I will delete the mod.

Could use a modeler, possibly a texture artist, to help though.

When you actually read the description to realise they require more but are cheaper to produce lol

@Vas Awesome pack very well balanced and developed

Do you think you'll be updating this with perhaps some alternate color panels at any point... say black or white ones. Athletically loads of small ships... *cough* tie fighters *cough* ... would benefit from added pallet swaps.

yes

it's for small ships available too?

Thats because it hasn't been updated in more than a year. If there are new solar panels, I have no idea when they were released, as I stopped playing Space Engineers for the time being for being a game of magic and fairy tails instead of science and exploration.

Seems to have replaced the deault solar panels with the older model of solar panel :o

I dunno what you mean. This mod was made prior to planets existing.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=404328404

This is the one I use. It works flawlessly. Mind your rotor weight limits!

I believe that there may at some point be a way in the game to have sun tracking or a mod that would do this. However, you can set up some sun tracking automation of your own using computers, I believe. A program in the game that would tell your panels to go to a specific position at a specific time and then rotate slowly as time passes, then reset after. Its been ages since I played but I recall that they added programmable computers in.

The retexture is beautiful, and i wish i could use it but I just can't, especially on planet. No fault of the mod, but realistic numbers just don't work when there's no way to angel the panels efficiently.

solved, just put your mod in first loading list ( sorry for my bad english i'm french )

There is either something wrong with your game, or a recent update disabled my textures.

No textures =/...

Will do. I'll post the results after I try it.

I'm not sure. Make a backup of your save, and try. I've been out of Space Engineers for a long time now, just don't have the will, skill, or internet to continue.

If I load this mod to my server to replace the standalone Eikester solar panels mod, will the IDs match up seamlessly?

@Vas Forgot to say, you have good reason to feel proud. =)

@Vas That's disappointing to hear, especially since your mods are amazing. I've only been playing SE for a few weeks and it's currently my 'game of the moment'. It will remain so, until the next 'game of the moment' comes along (have a feeling it'll be No Man's Sky). It always baffles me when I return to a previous 'game of the moment' to find many of the same modders still producing work. How anyone could enjoy playing the same game for years at a time, with no break from it is beyond my understanding. However, it's easy for me to understand why you would lose interest. Anyway, many modders here seem to be happy to update a popular mod if someone loses interest. Perhaps if you openly inform the community that you've lost touch, they'll be willing to pick it up. Anyway, I used the small ship square flat 1 tile panels earlier and can confirm they are still working.

I'd update if I could, but I've lost touch with Space Engineers for a while and just eh. I dunno what to do anymore. This is still my proudest accomplishment of m modding history in any game. Or it was till DX11 came around and fucked it up. :/

Your mods are sexier than, ummm... me. Trust me, I'm pretty damn sexy.

We were talking about FTL type travel methods. Warp Drives, could be used for such, however the faster you want to go, the more energy is required. This is a method of propulsion that does not use thrust. Warp travel, moves space around you. Anyway, this is all unrelated to this mod, so I'm going to end the discussion. Suffice to say, I can not mod for a while, because I do not have the net access I need to do so.

Sure, we could easily reach 30% C with a atomic fission/fusion engine, the problem would be the high acceleration, we would need giant shock absorbers and I think also putting the crew in cryosleep would be neccessary.

Antinov, you can do warp drives at 50% C or even 25% C in SE without breaking the engine in any way or severely delaying travel. It'll probably still be instant travel to anywhere you want to go unless you st some super far distance. Instead, overlay a warp field on your screen and set an "in warp timer" based on the distance and speed you chose before letting you control your ship again. So normally at most a 5 minute wait would be the time.

Rusher0600, we won't be able to do light speed warp drives. Something about requiring too much energy or even negative energy. But slower than light warp is theorized to be possible with our current technology.

Well at a light speed of 300000 km/s you would travel 2000 km (jump drive max distance) in 0.00666666 s, It's also easier to program it as instant teleportation. Multiplayer already has some issues, I think it would make MP worse if the host also had to calculate a light speed travel of client.

Eh, I've got the upcoming Star citizen for more realistic spaceflight, with logical limits on max acceleration values, and G blackouts, also thrust vectoring. I never really expect SE to go that far, since it's based on a cube system.

I doubt the engine allows for many complex things without serious rewrites. But it's just a limitation of cube based systems.

We are experimenting with warp drive technology in real life right now. However, it has been years since I read the article so I don't recall where it is and such. Slower than light warp drives are much more realistic than instant teleportation.

I managed to work out a good realistic system a while back and was in the process of testing a new method of ore mining and stuff before I lost my normal internet access and couldn't upload. Nor would an author on the workshop let me use his textures so.

I had some working systems that would have gone well for the game, I just can't do it anymore and can't keep up with the constant updates. Plus after KeenSWH shown that their mission statement is a lie, I kinda lost faith. http://www.keenswh.com/about.html

SE was never, ever realistic anyway, building ships out of steel in space, fueless ion engines, not to mention just tossing uranium in a reactor and letting it go. I've been working on a decent realisem overhaul, but retaining thingslike jump drives and upping certain thigns to the point they are useful. I'll probably make jump drives require end game generation of exotic matter at huge energy cost, since no known elements hold the secret to folding spacetime.

A jump drive isn't nesesarily bullshit, depending on just how it work. Something liek an alcubiere drive has some merit, though I do with that the gravity generator could be forgone for something more akin to energizing parts of the floor and hull for magnetic boots. but the game physics just doesn't support ladders or other adhesive surfaces yet, nor does it truely accomodate anything over 500 m/s.

without the jump drive, you have the choice of not exploring the map within your lifetime, or forging colision physics and just phasing through everything at high velocities. 2077 is likely way too early for alcubiere drives, but it's the only workaround to the engine physics limits. Let's also not forget the tiny, impossibly dence planets either. With the jump drives, and gravity manipulation alone, it should be set far ,far into the future.

I'll resume modding again at a later time, when the devs are finished shitting out new bullshit so I can make one big realism overhaul mod, overhauling everything including the power usage of all items in the game.

Right now though, I am on a very heavily limited connection. A bluetooth mobile phone tether that maxes out at 16KB/s and cuts off my connections a lot making it very difficult to do anything at all. I can't continue modding under these circumstances and there is no available internet out here. None at all, except ripoff satellite net.

My solar panels are based on realism. Not game developer random shit values that they shit out of their ass one day and added to the game for shits and giggles. I use real science real facts real physics. The game developers do not.

As for solar energy, really its supposed to be a station thing. I developed a station and battery powered ships in the past using docking charge methods to test it all out. People keep pushing W as if this is an on earth racing game where you gotta hold the gas constantly to keep going forward, burning more power constantly. I did quite successful with a mining ship with nothing but batteries on it, using another mod that deletes all nuclear reactors from the game. When I docked to recharge, all my resources got automatically transferred to the refineries and everything functioned great. Need more power for a longer duration of time? Add more batteries. Plan you designs well and everything will be smooth. However, I haven't played in more than a year so I don't know what all has changed other than the ridiculous jump drive bullshit.

Power hike? Well I haven't modded for the game in a long time now. If the devs increased power requirements for things in the game, call them morons for being so stupid. The developers don't give a rats ass about realism anymore, they just care about adding random shit to the game now so I lost faith in the game long ago.

The issue is, that rarely can you get a great angle for solars, and the power requirements of everything in game make them unfeasable at the game's default values for anything but stations, especially since the power hike.

Having them over realistic peek efficency makes up for poor angles, and lack of any automated solar tracking to keep panels at the optimum angle.

Sorry, I can't update the mod lately. My net is in severe condition basically.
Plus, I don't want to add alternate versions of my mods until I can actively start maintaining them again.
Right now, my game's solar panels are about 80% efficient, which is stronger than anything we have in the world today with the top efficiency being bout 44.7% if I remember right. Black solar panels are only 2% more efficient than blue ones meaning even if it were used instead with the 44.7% efficient solar set, it would likely only increase it to maybe 50% tops. Depending on if black ones can be used the same way blue ones can.

My solar panels are already beyond what we think is capable for solar harvesting. The values are lower though, because I used the stats for being in the asteroid belt rather than what the game uses, which is in orbit around Venus at 100% efficiency.

Would it be possible to get a black version of this? Possibly higher efficency as well. More mdoern solar panels tend to be black.

good work on this so far! i love it, and maybe u can get a non- nerfed ver out there it would be even better!
keep it up!

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