Cheese's Concentrated Solar


Adds concentrated solar energy based around heliostat mirrors, which can point at solar power towers to generate heat for heliothermal energy production, or solar lens towers to generate giant lasers.

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1.1 - 2.0
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Changelog

Version: 0.4.4
Date: 2024.12.26
  Bugfixes:
    - Attempt to fix yet more inconsistencies with entity deletion.
    - Added radius visualisation to solar laser tower (oversight).
Version: 0.4.3
Date: 2024.12.21
  Changes:
    - [Credit: ZarSasha] Heliostat Mirror: Added a custom explosion effect, along with standard 
      impact visuals and sound effects. Also increased space above tooltip image (won't work for ghosts).
    - Quality support for towers only - power generated scales the same with mirrors, but reflects quality-ified increased amount.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed divide by zero causing crash on zero sunlight surfaces.
Version: 0.4.2
Date: 2024.12.14
  Minor Features:
    - Support for Warp Drive Machine (can place heliostat mirrors on blue tiles)
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed class of bugs related to deleted entities not being removed in database - all entities 
      should now be correctly removed on deletion, no matter the source.
Version: 0.4.1
Date: 2024.10.22
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix crash when inserting tiny amount of fluid into tower
Version: 0.4.0
Date: 2024.10.10
  Features:
    - Support for Factorio 2.0
    - Reworked damage and effects of laser tower.
Version: 0.3.4
Date: 2024.09.22
  Changes:
    - Fix bots rotating the tower crashing mod
    - [Credit: TheKingJo] Introduced remote interface for towers and max_mirrors per surface
Version: 0.3.3
Date: 2023.11.28
  Changes:
    - Major boost to laser tower range.
    - Removed dependency on nuclear power - research now also contains all required heat related equipment.
    - Respect surface.solar_power_multiplier, both when calculating mirror contribution to a tower, and in 
      the maximum mirrors readout in GUI (and when placing a new tower).
Version: 0.3.2
Date: 2023.04.08
  Changes:
    - Fixed GUI crash with SE map.
Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2023.04.03
  Changes:
    - More resilient global tables, with migration.
    - Fixed crash a surface was deleted that contained towers and mirrors.
    - Updated GUI to clarify heat rather then electric power.
Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2023.04.02
  Major Features:
    - Custom GUI for interacting with towers.
  Features:
    - Beam graphics can now be disabled. Must be done server-wide, as beams are rendered as game entities.
    - Tower energy production can now be customized.
    - Removed old debug settings. 
    - K2 power multiplier instead of hard set 110MW.
  Info:
    - 1000 downloads (thanks!)
Version: 0.2.2
Date: 2023.01.29
  Major Features:
    - K2+SE Compatibility.
    - K2 towers produce 110MW of heat.
    - Research requires K2 advanced solar panels, or SE space science.
    - SE Towers can be placed in space.
Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2023.01.29
  Minor Features:
    - Added bounds indicator when tower in cursor.
    - Tweaked bounds colour.
    - Mirrors and towers use AAI ingredients when present.
    - Tweaked wording of mirrors to be in reference to solar intensity increase instead of power.
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2023.01.16
  Major Features:
    - Added bounds indicator for placing towers and mirrors.
  Minor Features:
    - Reworked how highlight boxes are managed.
    - Increased tower range to 35 to accommodate for previous slightly incorrect calculation.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed inconsistencies in tower range.
Version: 0.1.5
Date: 2023.01.14
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed nth tick next issue.
    - Increased stack size of mirrors to 50.
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2023.01.3
  Changes:
    - Initial version.