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Mechanical Expansion
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block, Other
Tags: NoScripts
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24 Jul, 2022 @ 10:04pm
29 Mar @ 11:51pm
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Mechanical Expansion

Description
Anger Clang like never before while you build subgrid configurations that were previously impossible! This mod contains hinges, rotors, and pistons with conveyor ports and attachment points in different orientations, including the Wide series which will allow you to easily switch between odd to even symmetry with your subgrids without needing to overengineer your contraptions

Corner Hinge - 2+1 way linear conveyor intersection; 90 degrees
Center Hinge - 3+1 way di/convergent conveyor intersection; 180 degrees
Wide Hinge - 2x1 wide axis base, 1x1 top part: centers on the border of 2 blocks; 180 degrees
Long Hinge - 1x2 long axis base, 1x1 top part: centers on the border of 2 blocks; 180 degrees
(be very careful with block clearances with the long hinge, it is unforgiving but it will lay down flat)

Axle Rotor - 1x1 base, 1x1 top, two-sided top part
Wide Axle Rotor - 2x1 base, 3x1 top, two-sided top part
Right Rotor - 2+1 way linear conveyor intersection
Rotor Junction - 4+1 way planar conveyor intersection
Wide Right Rotor - 1x2 base, 1x1 top part: centers on the border of 2 blocks
Wide Rotor Junction - 2x2 base, 1x1 top part: centers on the border of 4 blocks

Short Piston - 1x1, extends 1m
Short Side Piston - 1x1, sideways conveyor port, extends 1m
Short Wide Piston 1x2 base, 1x1 top part: centers on the border of 2 blocks, extends 1m
Wide Piston - 1x2 base, 1x1 top part: centers on the border of 2 blocks, extends 2m

Tank Track Hinge - New telescoping design which allows for singular track pieces, also considering adding new timer/programmable and Cython's shield blocks to the inside and outside edges of the tracks since we don't really have a way to use those things currently, will probably move this to another mod if/when that happens

Suspension Hinge Base - Micro-sized hinge in multiple offset orientations to allow the mounting of Suspension Damper in many configurations

Suspension Damper - A pneumatic type piston that can dampen the oscillation of suspensions or mechanical arms, it is actually a wheel suspension but it *almost* doesn't rotate, you have to hit it really hard in order to rotate it and then you will just have a bent damper like real life lol. Use Height Offset and Strength sliders to tune

Hardpoint - Sideways mounted pistons that primarily function as exterior attachment points for stuff

Landing gear rotors - I need to tune these, they don't take impacts very well so not so useful. I will probably just make them a wheel suspension. But they look cool!
81 Comments
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Freudman 6 Oct @ 1:58am 
wow, i usualy do these days lotta subgrid suspensions based on rotor head on suspension attached. I tried those dumpeners as they are and clamped ones too and exploded every time. I was using sus rotor as rotor replacement so my i cen get some horizontal movement and also somehow loose hitbox with neighboring subgrids but. Maybe geometry was off bsc i used 11 bloc span between sus rotors which can give 2,5 blocs together and when i lowered suspension stance via little powered suspenssion strenght it started to wiggle and Klanged in flames. Anyways take your time, if id know at least some coding and so on id help you.
DontFollowOrders  [author] 4 Oct @ 2:23am 
Thank you for the kind words, while it's not my intention to abandon this (or any) of my mods, when I work on these it ends up being all I do for weeks on end. I'm not that great of a modeler and if I try to focus too much on details I'm very slow! I get burnt out and I need to be in a certain mindset. Plus the scope of everything this mod could contain makes me wish I had some elves lol

With that being said, when I last worked on this I was pretty close to completing a fix-up of the dampers, including some animated coilover subparts, as part of an entire multigrid wheel and axle assembly. It still needs some polish on my end, but you're right, the answer is to stack two of dampers together with a 90 polar rotation between them to clamp the alignment
Freudman 4 Oct @ 1:27am 
absolutly bonker mate, all the variety Keen did not bother to add. And the axle rotor is the best!! Oh can i join this rotor back to grid so it does not woble... vanila says impossible... axle rotor be like "hold ma beer". Still dunno what im going to use threads for but im in making of suspension based piston engine for my battle boat so ill try to use them as drive belts (maybe that will summon Klang?) Ye forgot to mention that Klang goes arround over this mod and just lets you be if you use it. Dumpeners have some lil problemns but im going to yoin em in between to they dont spin anymore and would provide twice as much dumpening..... such a cool mod, hope you dont leave it to rot
Space Ace 19 Jun @ 7:43am 
Something seems terribly wrong with the suspension dampers. The description states they shouldn't rotate, but for me they are rotating out of control and falling out of their slot. The height offset just flings it around
Alternivity 15 Jun @ 5:47am 
Hey, @DontFollowOrders, I'm having a bit of trouble using the Short Wide Piston, it looks like the piston head isn't properly centered so the heads don't align with other grids.
DontFollowOrders  [author] 30 Mar @ 4:18am 
Rotor heads are fixed now, Keen simply changed the SubtypeID of the vanilla top parts. Sorry it took so long everyone

@BoroMonokli That's unfortunately not possible, as while I can control where the subgrid dummy is placed relative to the base part, I can't tell the subgrid to center on a coordinate edge, it can only have an integer value (only whole numbers). Therefore only odd-symmetry top parts are supported properly by the game engine. In other words, the center of rotation would not match the center of the block.
BoroMonokli 18 Mar @ 6:17pm 
if you get around to remaking this, please add a rotor with offset or 2x2 head: 2x2 base, 2x2 head, so I can have my dual-gun turrets without the guns being off-center
Egonsi_the_One 10 Mar @ 1:42pm 
still broken? @Akazuky
Akazuky 15 Feb @ 5:02pm 
the mod broke ig? none of the rotors have heads and when i press add rotor head it crashed the game , or so it happened the last 40 times i tried , pls fix i love thios mod and i use it a lot to make tanks T_T
DontFollowOrders  [author] 24 Oct, 2024 @ 11:15am 
Yeah, and I lost all my models to a Blender update so it looks like I will have to rebuild all this from scratch anyway lol, sorry. It's going to take some time but I will work on this