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Electrical Age (ELN) is a Minecraft Mod offering the ability to perform large-scale in-game electrical simulations.
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Create better energy converter model #293

Open jrddunbr opened 1 year ago

jrddunbr commented 1 year ago

The current energy converter model we are using has been a placeholder for years. We should make a model that looks like a small machine, can support wires going around it, and has outputs for RF pipes on all sides. Not sure what that might look like. Perhaps we just want to add new textures to the existing block?

Open to suggestions.

MsAlPatina commented 1 year ago

Perhaps something that looks like an DC-DC converter? But with something so it looks different? i could try model one, just need some basic ideas

OfficerPotato911 commented 1 year ago

Maybe make it look like a padmount transformer with cooling fins and outputs. Could reinstate the different levels of converter and make them different sizes too. image

MsAlPatina commented 1 year ago

Maybe make it look like a padmount transformer with cooling fins and outputs. Could reinstate the different levels of converter and make them different sizes too. image

Seems similar to the one i did i based it of an wethered transformer at an substation, tryed making it about 1 to 1.5 block tall imagem

Edit: thats a quite old model, thats why it also has the missing pink texture

Another thing i forgot, i remember at one point eln had eln energy exporters for each voltage level, if i recall 50v, 200v, 800v, maybe they could have also a cap on the max amount of RF sent

jrddunbr commented 1 year ago

we got rid of the voltage tiering of the converters but we could limit power tier or something in place of that.

DarthSidiousPalpatine commented 1 year ago

power_unit image

If only I was not dumb and succesfully setted up enmironment to try again on adding this model instead of just throwing it as rar in eln discord...

jrddunbr commented 1 year ago

feel free to add it somehow

jrddunbr commented 11 months ago

If you upload the 6 textures used I can at least do that. We don't use the model loader on SimpleNode right now so I don't know how easy/hard it would be to adapt that.

DarthSidiousPalpatine commented 11 months ago

Well, its not just 6 sides-textures, it actually has 3 cubes.

Outer shell cube, Invert outer shell cube, Inner guts cube.

Oh, 4 cubes actually, it has a flat pane for signs.