Adding new power class and block for a modern windmill that produces energy day and night by wind power. Although wind is unpredictable, it still runs at around 50% capacity most of the time. Highly advices to be used with a battery bank.
You need to disable EAC to use this mod!
First release, not yet tested very well!
This Mod is part of my bigger electricity overhaul, but should also work on its own. Also works in multi-player, but due to custom resources each client needs to have the mod installed too.
Wind speed is not linked to biome weather (yet), as I didn't see any way to get local weather per x/z position, specially if running as a dedicated server. For now the wind speed and direction is interpolated via perlin noise, which should be good enough. But it can mean that in edge cases your biome weather is extremely windy but the windmills are running very slowly. At least we also simulate a generic wind direction, which is IMO something the original game hasn't yet included.
For the first release I really just re-used an existing model for Xyth. It may not be the most beautiful and detailed model, but worked nicely to get the basics up and running. Now it would be cool to see some other windmill models, like from old farms etc. This mod should have everything one needs to create news model and export it as a unity3d resource.
You should already be familiar how to export unity3d resources, otherwise you will need to get familiar with this step first (ToDo: link docs etc.).
In order to animate the windmill, we use a custom unity script. This encapsulates the behavior for the animation nicely from the rest of the code. You can simply import the script in unity and then assign it to your model and configure the necessary items there.
You find the plugin stub under UnityPlugins/ElectricityWindPower.dll
in this repo. This is only a stub for unity and doesn't contain any of
the behavior (so you will not see anything if you click play in the
unity editor). Don't worry, as the actual behavior will be loaded from
the main plugin dll ElectricityWindPower.dll when the game is loading.
- Create a folder in unity assets named
Plugins(name must exactly match, as unity will treat it as a special folder due to its name). - Drag and Drop the
UnityPlugins/ElectricityWindPower.dllinto it
The prefab you need to create has only a few requirements and even those
are just recommendations. It can have two joints that we rotate around.
You probably want to nest these two so the rotations are added. In my
example I rotate the housing into the wind, and the rotor rotates
according to the wind speed.
It doesn't really matter to which node you attach the windmill script, but I suggest to keep it close to the root (the code will actually look into all children to find a reference during runtime).
- Housing: Choose which object to rotate into the wind
- Housing Axis: Actual rotation vector that is applied to it
- Rotor: Choose which object to rotate according to wind speed
- Rotor Axis: Actual rotation vector that is applied to it
- Audio Loop: A audio source that is playing when enabled
- Audio Swoosh: A audio source representing a single "swoosh"
- Swoosh Offset: Degrees after which the audio is played
- Swoosh Interval: How many degrees to wait until next swoosh
- Swoosh Delay: Time offset to delay the playing of the audio
- Swoosh Pitch: Pitch dampening factor (keep or tinker with it)
Make sure to add colliders and tags where needed. For completeness I've included screenshots for all unity object properties:
- unity-props-01-root
- unity-props-02-model
- unity-props-03-motor
- unity-props-04-housing
- unity-props-05-rotor
- unity-props-06-pole
In order for audio to attenuate correctly in Unity and 7D2D you need
to make sure that the audio source is correctly setup. Make sure to
move the Spatial Blend option to be fully 3D. This is probably the
most common mistake, since unity seems to default it to 2D, which
disables any distance attenuation. You should also disable the
Play on Awake option, since otherwise the audio is automatically
played when the player tries to put the block into the world.
Finally adjust the "Max Distance" to define how far the audio
should be audible (unit here is roughly the same as blocks).
If you change something on an existing prefab, you need to update
that prefab first, before you can export it again. You can do that
by clicking on the inspector for the prefab to Override stuff:
If you're not familiar how to create new blocks, please make yourself familiar with that topic first. It boils down to something like:
<block name="MyNewWindMill">
<property name="Extends" value="ocbElectricityModernWindmill"/>
<property name="Model" value="#@modfolder:Resources/MyWindMill.unity3d?MyPrefab" />
</block>- [UL] Update ModXmlPatcher to Version 4 (fix UL compatibility)
- Change Unity Asset Bundle to use LZ4 compression for best load times
- [UL] Add small stator recycler recipe
- [DF] Introducing compatibility for Darkness Falls (experimental)
- [UL] Improving repairability in UL (only in maintenance station)
- Add automated translations for 27 languages via DeepL
- Introducing compatibility for Undead Legacy (experimental)
Rename this mod to e.gZElectricityWindPowerto load after UL - Add German translations
- Add rustic windmill model (needs stators to produce power)
- Power generation is set to be half of the modern windmill (120W Max)
- New resource "small stator" scraps into brass and can be crafted at forges
- Change loot/scrap to include "small stator" in various electric items
- Add wind power schematic to unlock all new wind power items directly
- Change script to make rotation axes configurable
- Change script to take in audio from unity plugin option
- Initial working version
I've developed and tested this Mod against version a20.b238