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Tractor Beam

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Mod category: Block, Script

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Description

Ntech brings you Large and Small Grid Tractor beams!

A special thanks to Leto for writing the script for the UI and grid.Physics.AddForce

Thank you also to Cythons Energy Weapons script which was used in part to power the tractor beams.
which is used with the permission granted under their public licenses.

Cython's Energy Weapons API
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=635057556

Tractor beams have UI controls

Min (10m)

= Minimum distance objects can be to tractor beam

Max (800m)

= Maximum distance from beam that objects can be once pulled into that range

Strength(2000N - 750,000N)

= the force in newtons of the beam

Information

To control objects pulled in keep the distance between max and min less than 5m apart, how the beam works it pulls any targets that are farther than max to less than max, and once it reaches less than min it will then push it back to above min setting. There is a little bounce to objects with no dampening as it floats between min/max parameters.

If the min/max are set to just 1m difference it resembles a stop 'hold' position for the beam.
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If you want the ship used in one of the videos: ARK - Reclaimer
The vehicle being abused in one of the videos: Hydrogen Transport
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*Has not been fully tested in DS

Important note: large objects not under inertial dampeners will be pulled in at an increasing rate, but will be slowed the closer they get to beam turret. If you pull objects with no dampening quickly make sure you have the minimum distance slider set further away or risk destroying things.

P.S. If anyone does a mod review or spotlight of this mod, I'll add it to the videos list.

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Popular Discussions View All (1)

Jun 12 @ 3:30am

Problems and Bugs

nukeguard

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Davidenico May 27 @ 4:13pm

I really look foward to see the mod being fixed, just installed and I saw that It does not work atm

Malpherian May 18 @ 2:38am

is this going to be updated for the new Weapon core? and Game version?

titanius anglesmith May 16 @ 3:39pm

only the vanilla turret options show up

thesnowfox84 Mar 27 @ 5:16pm

funny how you were doing powerful stuff like this before toolcore

Rouge Sable Mar 22 @ 3:11am

Hi, that would be awesome to have it compatible with the new weapon core version! this is mostly impossible to not have it now (according to other mod dependencies)