Wind Turbines (Redux)


Animated wind turbines that turn into with the wind direction.

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1 year, 9 months ago
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Any chance you might consider adding an option to scale the size? Maybe half-size? I modified them to be offshore, and that helps, but still too large, imo. A very nice mod, thank you!

1 year, 9 months ago

I am not really sure about that. Part of the reason why the model in this variant is so big is to offset them in comparison to solars (and it looks quite good). There are already plenty of mods that have much smaller wind turbines.

I will give it a thought and if I can think of a good and easy way to implement it I might offer it but right now I don't really see it. Some of the seemingly more popular ones like Wind Turbines by wavetrex or easy wind turbine by unfunf22 might be more inline with what you're looking for.

Doing an offshore variant might be cool though. Thanks for the suggestion!

1 year, 9 months ago

Thanks for the suggestions of mods to take a look at, but after taking a quick look, I prefer your work... and wind turbines' big one, it is as large as yours.
I use a modded electrical system which does not display electrical wires anyway... so I made a "fish pole", with an extended reach that does not collide with the turbines. So I can even sit the turbine on the fish pole... and if not, it has the perfect camo. :)

1 year, 9 months ago

I did notice that wind turbines displays the full object size (yellow corners when you mouse over) while your shows the just the 2x2 base. It would help a bit on placement... true, the turbines do turn from red to green, but still a bit nicer if it displayed the full size.

1 year, 9 months ago
(updated 1 year, 9 months ago)

I think this does the trick, line 65 in entities.lua:

-- selection_box = { { -0.9, -0.9 }, { 0.9, 0.9 } },
++ selection_box = { { -16.5, -16.5 }, { 16.5, 16.5 } },

1 year, 8 months ago

Thank you for that. I'll have a look at it the next time I touch the code in general!

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