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[Deprecated] Planetary Dynamics - Re-Entry Heat, Drag, and Wings.

Deprecated

I apologize for any issues it may cause, but: This mod will no longer be receiving updates, and eventually will be removed from the workshop. This is largely due to focus on other projects, my un-medicated adult adhd, and a general lack of interest in updating a modification that is, well, "re-inventing the wheel."

In the mean-time you could begin using some of these other great mods:
DraygoKorvan's Aerodynamic Physics (Deadly Reentry + Drag + Flight) mod.
This is the gold standard for aerodynamic physics in SE. He has a well-maintained, feature rich mod with cross-mod integrations, a customizable experience using an intuitive text hud api. Integrating into weather, water mod, and many others. I highly suggest you upgrade to this modification.

Takeshi's Plane Parts mod.
This is a full featured mod that allows players the ability to produce their own custom-designed wings. The models look fantastic, and the mod comes with gear, gear housing, custom rotors, and air brakes.
(I have personally started using this mod over my own)

Basic Info

Planetary Dynamics is a mod that does just what the name implies. Provides more dynamic features to planets. Including Wings & Stabilizers, Drag, and Re-entry heating.

(NOTE: This mod includes a built in speed mod of 1000. This is because the atmospheric math is best done over base limitations. If you wish to use another speed mod, just add another in the list before this one, and it will overwrite the speed mod included.)

Wings & Stabilizers.

Wings work pretty simply, place them on the aircraft properly, and once you get up to speed inside a planets atmosphere they will begin lifting the aircraft upward. (This is "Lift" not a powerful drag model. Drag is implamented other ways, these pieces provide upward force while moving, not resistance.)
Meaning you dont need: Up thrusters.

Stabilizers are alittle different. They provide added "Lateral" drag to a craft. Basically meaning that they cut into the wind and keep your craft moving toward the nose. (You know, if you place them properly).
Which means your airplanes do not need those: Left, Right, Down thrusters.

Now something else that stabilizers do is their force is applied at the location they are placed, and not the center of mass. This means they will attempt to angle the craft toward the direction of flight, and in a hard turn, will provide that "resistance" which any real aircraft actually has while moving.
So basically, dont put stabilizers forward of the center of mass.

Drag.

Drag is the negative force applied to a craft in motion through an atmosphere determined by the thickness of the atmosphere, the speed relative to the atmosphere its in, and the crosssection of drag caused by the craft moving through it.
You gotta keep that engine running.

All of these factors are included. First the code runs a check through the grids bounding box, in all 6 directions. (Yes 6, needed for the next feature) and looks for blocks, once it finds one, it adds it to the cross section of that face, and moves on to the next row. Then it determines drag by the angle of the craft relative to its velocity, and applys a force depending on the crafts angle, crosssection for that face, and its speed.

With that said, the block check is only done again if the craft is changed. Say a block is removed, blown off, or added.

Re-Entry heating.

(which still needs alittle work)
Re-entry heating is... complex. It works kind of like this:

It applies heat only once over a certain speed, that speed changes depending on the atmosphere, but its currently between 400ms - 500ms. It then scales the heat according to the atmosphere level and the speed over the re-entry velocity threshold.
(I chose 400-500ms because of the fact that to orbit the earth like planet the player needs to be moving around 500-550 ms, and these number provide a nice burn effect without a whole lot of danger at those speeds.)

This heat is then applied to blocks, which will begin to slowly get more and more red. (Youll hear them changing color as seen in video) Dont worry yet, until your blocks glow fully red, they dont take damage.

Once the blocks are glowing full red, they will continue to "heat up". Its this surplus heat that determines the amount of damage they will recieve per second.

Dissipation of heat is determined by the atmosphere that a vessel is in. Currently at ground level you can expect it to bleed off around 20% of its current heat a second. In the upper atmosphere or no atmosphere it will bleed off around 5% a second, and scales accordingly in-between.


Realistic Thrusters: By Digi.
Improved Thrusters: By Digi.


-Wings use borrowed construction models. Added to to-do list.
-Debris from the main ship may not return to its original color. This is fixable by just recoloring it. Or grinding it, which is more likely.
-Any color other than grey, black, and white may cause a rainbow effect as it heats up, will add a conversion algorithim to fix this soon.

-Drag can be "wonkey" at times. This is largely because thrusters provide so much force that the drag needs to be somewhat soupey.
-Currently there is no particle effect on re-entry. I did attempt to add some, but found that particle effects are not allowed in scripts. Im hoping that changes though, so I kept the version with particle code for safe keeping.


-Digi: This mod was built initially off of Digis Aerodynamics mod. (Still using his models... I should fix that)
-Draygo Korvan: For assisting, and "showing" (I learned alot by looking at his code) me how to fix a few issues with multiplayer.