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Ion Thrusters
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Type: Mod
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Aug 18, 2014 @ 2:51pm
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Ion Thrusters

Description
Basically these are normal thrusters with a look modeled after real-world Hall effect thrusters[en.wikipedia.org]

Currently implemented features:
  • 1x1x1 large- and small-ship blocks with straight and slanted versions
  • build stages for Survival mode
  • colorable textures, compatible with both engine renderers, DirectX 9 and DirectX 11.

Possible improvements:
  • The game currently does not allow thrusters to fire in any but the 6 primary directions. This means slanted blocks do not accelerate in the direction their thruster flame indicates. See the image above on how to read the markings on a slanted block to determine the direction of its thrust.
  • The game currently does not allow to reposition the thruster damage capsule in relation to the thruster flame. This means I cannot configure any thruster damage or the thrusters would destroy themselves.

The sources are available on Github[github.com] under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

If you feel that these thruster shouldn't have the same amount of thrust as the standard thrusters check out the modification Vas did on them.
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Aug 24, 2014 @ 2:17am
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[RaW]Raider Nov 14, 2018 @ 3:32am 
Maybe keeping the block slanted but the thruster part still in the direction of thrust like the armored thrusters be an ok idea?

Also, does this have the same thrust as vanilla ion thrusters? Since they take up half the space maybe half the power would be ok. I'm looking for something more realistic to combine with my planned hydrogen rebalance.
PersephonesPoms Dec 13, 2017 @ 9:30am 
Suggestion for sloped thrusters: Make it apply half force in two directions at once, allowing for them to actually have angled thrust.
Draven_Stone Feb 27, 2017 @ 8:30am 
bring back the 2x2x1, that was great for a drones main thrust
PrimitiveIdiot Feb 20, 2017 @ 5:46am 
wow looks good
Vas Aug 26, 2016 @ 3:13pm 
@Gonz I'm actually still around, I just have bad network issues and a very low budget. No one donates diddly squat to anyone who makes mods in any game on steam, so all us modders have a difficult time with keeping up with mods.

I'll look into updating the mod again though. I'm trying to find out if its possible for a thruster to use both energy and fuel so that I can make true ion thrusters.
Gonz.0 Mar 21, 2016 @ 8:06pm 
I love your thrusters, I am very curuios, do you have any plans to adjust the thrusters for balance ie: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=310597215 done by Vas? I see he is not modding anymore. I use the thrusters primarily on pods and drones, very useful, and appropriate. But he did make some good poings in his rebalancing.
Stigm4t4 Mar 9, 2016 @ 4:57pm 
Hall Effect, very cool. Is my favorite for use as control thrusters. As Fus said, a variant that is curved would be great for aestetics, so I can embed them in a curved (Like the round block or round corner) areas and have them look like part of the design rather than a cut out. This is a suggestion only. Good work.
DragonSkull Jan 22, 2016 @ 1:21pm 
This thrusters work in atmosphere but when hit space to go up, they go down. Can you fix that? or actually make them not usable on atmosphere?
Draven_Stone Oct 1, 2015 @ 1:31pm 
i realy miss the 2x2x1 thruster, you should bring that back
Sir Spoony May 24, 2015 @ 3:45am 
Used them for quite awhile, but feel a bit boring and not useful now-a-days