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Shaostoul's: Force Fields

The difficulty with the fill part stems from the fact it has zero collision mesh, which is what allows people/spaceships to pass through it. I have yet to hear of any way to fix it aside from manually deleting the fill pieces via the in-game admin menu. I don't have sufficient knowledge of the current codebase to create a script that'd work. If anyone knows of a good solution, I'll add the fix to this mod.

having to remove this MOD due to inability to connect the fill parts---

Cant delete misplaced pieces either somehow miss aligned a section and it hanging around being an eysore

having problems getting the Panels to connect to each other "fill" section act like they arent there to align the next panel too. what am i doing wrong?

This is the only hangar door or forcefield mod that still works. Everything else is broken. They 'work', but visually the force fields and hangar doors appear on the wrong side of the main block when open. It's really aggrivating.

I suppose a custom component would give you more control over the final block weight. In my specific case, I am not really all that concerned with the block weight. I typically use these for hangar bays large enough to make depressurization a chore for 40+ air vents. For example, my current in process build is a fleet carrier. I'm using these for the main hangar, and I'm considering them for the auxiliary hangar. I suppose if I were to use them on smaller builds that have better thrust to weight ratios, less weight would be desirable. But, at the same time, the added weight makes for a greater design challenge. I have more thoughts on the matter but they spiral off into some kind of balance between both options. My final opinion, dealers choice.

How would you guys feel about a custom component for adding health? If I recall correctly block health is tied to the components used to construct it. Unless you'd be okay with just increasing current components to heavy armor values or whatever.

I would tend to agree with Vokun. Having HP no lower than a light armor block, up to that of heavy armor would balance excellently with the mods I tend to find myself using. In using this mod, I have not noticed any thruster damage occurring to the fields. But that doesn't mean much because I treat them like closed hangar doors and park at a distance that thrusters can not damage them.

I don't know. I don't have the programming knowledge to do so. Last I recall there are issues with recoloring transparent materials, cause they function differently than normal block textures. I've not seen a slider system done for transparent materials specifically (like glass.) Thruster and lights are different. Do you know of a mod with color changing transparent materials? The only method I'd know of is adding multiple colors is by creating a bunch of different colored blocks like I had to for this mod: https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=307175879 I don't have the source blend files for the force fields, so I'd have to recreate the 3D models, which I'm disinclined to do.

Would be nice if it were made possible to change the colour of the forcefield, in some builds it would even be perfect if no colour at all.

Don't know if you can add a slider system for selecting colour, like done for thrusters(mod) and lights ?