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[DIGI] Circular Particle Cannons

I sympathize with what you are going through. While I already took care of most of my compatibility issues during beta testing, I'm taking on the task of building a new network setup by reverse engineering the heat network. Just remember that you have to point the part file to a different one. I made that mistake and couldn't figure out why it was crashing until after I walked away for a while.

I plan to add overclock capabilities... once I'm out of the "aaaaa all my mods are crashing" phase.

quick question about the meltdown update, will you add the ability to overclock the launcher and/or the controller?

I have another suggestion Regarding Firing modes:
The Hyper Accelerator Muzzle.
Uses the improved systems in the Hyper Accelerator to add a new function: Projectile Slewing.
Simply put this exit comes in 2 flavors: Angled (slant ships can use them!) and Normal.
The twist? BOTH versions can slew the bolt a tiny bit off bore-sight (less than half a degree) allowing long range sniping of subsystems without hyper specialized swinging of the firing ship's bow.

3 suggestions for your perusal
-Burst mode: empties the particle accelerator over time rather than all at once (short burst of small damage packets, maybe count of shots tied to damage multiplier?)
-Short range CHARGED particle mode: does not nuetralize the particle shot as it leave the barrel (~shorter range, but has a very slim shotgun effect with much more EMP effect)
-Mute button. I love the mod and would use them even more if I could mute my charged accelerators... that hum gets old very fast.

I'm tossing that out as an additional possibility for the lag spikes being found. Also, reason why I introduced gargantuan reactors. Less buffs sending power, less lag spikes. one GCR will usually be less lag than 4 LCRs. This is mostly a 1-2 fps boost for a well layed out ship. If you have 80 PDs, that could be a 5-10 boost. Swapping out 2 PDs for 1 Beam PD when you have about 100 is closer to a 30 fps gain, at least on my computer

too many point defense units will cause horrible lag. Its why I made beam point defense units and placed them inside the mod.

@Nytemare3701 I'm not getting any FPS drops. Tested with this mod and Azic's Crewed Power Distribution on some of the larger built-in ships.
Can you provide a mod list and/or a save file? It could be some unexpected interaction between the mods.

I'll take a look at the performance issues. I'll also work on adding some underlying structure to the sprites.

This seems to be having some performance issues on the newer updates. Simply placing one on a larger ship tanks my FPS, and placing two is enough to go to slideshow mode. I removed almost all my mods to troubleshoot, and confirmed that it's the cannons. (For reference, the only items left on the ship were some shields, and Azic's distributed power reactors/engines to remove the need to pathfind power crews around.)