Thaumium Rotor? Repairs itself with vis. So basically vis --> EU, or Magic Energy Absorber (GregTech) redux.
Requires either Charging or Repair Enchanted Book to make.
Are there Aluminium ones too? That would be logical and useful.
Well.
No Thaumium rotors.
And no aluminium rotors yet.
Iridium Plate rotors that last forever please? Useable only on last two higher tiers as it is heavy.
Ok, I added some stuff.
Changelog:
Added iridium rotor.
Changed some stuff in the code.
Fixed some bugs.
Where did download the 1.4.7?
There is no 1.4.7 version.
Display MoreGregTech itself already nerfes the Windmill recipe in particular, base of compact windmills.
Same thing happens with compact solars, as the solar panel recipe is now more expensive.Compact windmills and Compact solars are not meant to be "expensive", just a way to reduce lagness of tons of generators.
May i suggest adding tiers to rotors?
For example tier 1 rotor (ultra low voltage) requires 2 material items,T2 requires 4, T3 requires 8, tier 4 16 and tier 5 32.
[Achieved by combining two of previous tier to make the next one]
Rotor durability increase 20% base per tier. T1 2 days, T2 2d + 9,6h , T3 2d + 19,2h , T4 3d + 4,8h, T5 4days
Edit: Your wind generation code is "failing", i can generate 170 EU/t near bedrock using a EV windmill and a rotor while it has 9000+ obstructions around.
To make it more precise, please DO use IC² wind formula as base :
Generation = WindStrength * (Height - 64 - Obstruction blocks) / 750 * Weather Value
Wind Strength values from 0 to 30,
Obstruction block is any block within the detection area, you may exclude cables from this calculation somehow,
Weather value is 1,2 if raining and 1,5 if rain + thunderstorm.ULV windmills, which are 4 windmills would generate 4 times a normal windmill would do.
LV windmills, would generate 16 times a normal windmill would do.
MV windmills, 64 times.
HV, 256x
EV, 1024x
I will add a config option for the EU/t output formula, which one is used.
Hey there,
can you please add a config option to customize the recipes, and to customize the output?
No, I won't add anything recipe-related to the config file.
However, I have something in mind to change the output in the config option.
Iridium Plate rotors that last forever please? Useable only on last two higher tiers as it is heavy.
I think about that.
Display MoreI'd also suggest to add compatibility with GT
I'd say you need 5 differents rotor:
Wooden one (if you really want it ^^): low output (30%), low duration bar(10%), but it's renewable and insanely cheap (although, it should be usable by a lower-tier-than-normal windmill. But it should also produce something only mechanical, like BC energy, so ...
Refined Iron: Normal output (50%) and normal duration (70%)
Aluminium (GT): High output (90%), medium-low duration (30%) (so Aluminium would worth less EU than Refined Iron, but at a higher rate)
Titanium: High output (95%), High duration (80%).
Advanced Alloy Rotor: Low Output (35%), infinite duration.
Carbon Plate: Max output (100%), medium duration (50%)While I'm at it, I'd also suggest you to make your addon more like Advanced Solar Pannels than Compact Solar. Or even better, instead of making one expensive generator, what about making MultiBlock Structures (like GT one, but that would be a single column, like 10 high for the smallest windmill, and 50 for the highest) ? That wouldn't be that hard to do, and wouldn't be laggy (since it would just be one generator checking for 10-50 blocks above it, and as it could be checked like every 5 minutes).
Moreover, the main point of that suggestion is to make windmills more "realistic", and less exploitable, so wouldn't try to do anything with that ^^^
Edit: Oh, and BTW, don't forget configs
I personally won't add anything GregTech-related to the addon, because on the servers I play, GregTech isn't installed, so I don't really know if it's balanced or not. But the mod is open source, which means if anyone wants ro add something like that, he can and I will accept the PR, but I won't do anything like that myself. (At least not in the near future!!!)
Ok, I updated again.
Version 1.0.1.0.b2
Changelog:
Added Wooden rotor.
Added: If you now open the GUI, you see the Output of the Windmill.
Changed the Durability of the Carbon Rotor.
Renamed the Rotor to Carbon rotor.
:O 1,000 Posts
Also, i can do texturez if u wantz
Apparently im a popular Sprite Artist
You should debat with Schillaa for that.
Better then Nothing
Now make the Front of the windmill have a spinning animation and Output little white particles out the back
The thing with the spinning animation is not my part (no code, only a few .png files and a text file and that's it). I'm simply not able to make cool textures.
What I will do before that is the BC output (I think) and what i will also modt definitely do before that is making the windmills rotatable with a wrench.
BTW: You wrote you 1.000st post in my thread 
Also: Right now, there is only one rotor, but there will be some more.
And the rotor right now lasts like 5 days (10000000 ticks), but that will change.
Yay! Does it have a duration bar ?
it does.
However, the rotors aren't renderd in the world.
I played around a little bit with GUIs.
If you want, i have a beta version for you to play around:
Changelog:
Added a GUI to the Windmills.
Added Rotors. You have to place them in a windmill.
Changed: Windmills now check if they have a rotor and then they will adjust their energy output.
I don't see how it is abusable to have multiple energy type outputs.
After all they are reducing efficiency by adding more wires.
Not a modder, but I guess you could implement it like this (no need for buttons):
- Generator fills internal storage
- If EU-compatible wiring (e.g. Glass Fibre Cable, Superconductor) is found, output at specified rate from storage as EU
- Else if BC power-compatible wiring (e.g. Stone Conductive Pipe, Redstone Energy Conduit) is found, output at specified rate from storage as BC MJ.
- Else if UE power-compatible wiring is found, output at specified rate from storage as UE MJ.
- Else, slack.
As I said, I'm no modder, and I have only the faintest clue of how coding works, so I'm not sure if this will cause lag or other problems.Oh and then, you'll also need BuildCraft, Ampz/Voltz/Ohmz/Wattz/Joulez/Coloumbz/Faradz/BazicComponentz and TE-compatible recipes.
The problem is:
The Windmills don't have internal storage.
The problem is the LV/MV/HV windmills are called solar panels.
OK, fixed
Ok, so a lot of people thought, the BC Energy production would be a good idea.
That means I have to find out how to make buttons or so to toggle between the outputs.
http://imgur.com/G5zGFCF,3wslLEZ,L3QaW2S#0
I have both compact solars and your windmills installed, just did a fresh install of both, have not tested without compact solars but I am guessing there is a problem appearing from having both installed at the same time somehow.
Weird.
It definitely works without compactsolars, but let me take a look.
Ratio is actually 1EU : 40J, as seen in the UE-API. Also, why not outputting all 3 at once? It's not like someone would ever put 3 diffrent Cables on it.
No, I will not output all three at once, because somebody could abuse that and I don't like if stuff is abused, if there would be no other way than outputting all three, I wouldn't output anything else than IC2 EU
The problem is the LV/MV/HV windmills are called solar panels.
Actually: No, they aren't.
Are you sure you luuk at the ULV/LV/MV/HV/EV Windmills, not at the solars from compactsolars?!
Display MorePerhaps they all need a Wind turbine to run? Could be crafted like this:
_I_
_I_=Turbine Blade
_I_
I = Refined Iron
TTT
TAT=Wind Turbine
TTT
T = Turbine Blade
A = Advanced Machine block
It could then slowly take damage, slow in the Low tier ones, Quickly in the high tier ones.
Of course replace Refined iron with steel if Gregtech installed.
Yeah, I don't know if i like this idea, but maybe i'll add something like that in the future.
An other Question:
What do you guys think about toggeling between IC2 Enery output and Buildcraft energy output?
Small change needs to be made, check the names of each Windmill and I am sure you will spot the problem
I can't find the problem
