Steam Power is finally back with its other half basic pipes. Its been a
long time since these two mods were once the same exact mod. Now they
are rejoined though steam power was left rusting in the archive a bit
too long. Most of its content was remove and needs to be rewrote from
scratch. Fluid Mechanics aka basic pipes has since then become a nice
mod and is mostly bug free. Now with the addition of steampower maybe
just maybe now the mod will become more useful to the end user.
This was planned to give more options to the other sub mods of the core.
The parts item will be expanded adding more and more sub items for
crafting. The tool was already expanded to add a multi-meter.
Though that i could just let the drain do both fill/drain at the same
time. However, i did think the drain would try to self feed liquid into
itself. Should be fixed now by re-adding the meta sensitive canDrain
Drain no longer does draining of fluids on its own. It now only path
finds and fills areas. Pump will not have to drain fluid threw the drain
using it more of a origin point or a path finder.
Found out that set don't allow duplicate vars. Using Sets will fix this
issue with the path finder storing several of the same vector3
As well added a way to set the world of the path finder
if a node become a result its was not being added to the result list if
the path finder was not cleared first. In most cases clearing the path
finder is not as effective as refreshing the nodes.
Honestly shouldn't act to different from how its was seeing as nothing
really changed. Only thing that happened was that the load and write
part of BalanceCollectiveTank was split into two different methods. Will
need some testing though to check if everything works.
Also for NetworkFluidContainers its balance method was changed a bit to
maybe fix errors with fluid remaining in the tank that shouldn't have
fluid in them. Render will still need to be changed to fix this a little
better.
I've been avoiding this because i wanted to remove the starter pump.
However, seeing as early game it is needed i wanted to rework it. As
well since finite fluids are become more and more common i changed the
code. It will now drain sources within 20 blocks of itself. I'll still
need to redo the path finder, render, and several other parts to match
the change i want. I'm thinking of doing a buildcraft style pipe
extension from the base. However, with a full render and animation to go
with it. The other option that came to mind was a hose attachment
allowing it to be a basic version of the construction pump without the
drain.
It still needs more work especial with its half of the pathfinder. As
well i'm guessing tests need to be done on amount of fluid drained
compared to amount present.
This runs out side of minecraft even though it require minecraft code
and UE api code to work. This is main due to the use of the UE Vector3
class to do the testing with.
