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Engineer's Toolbox

(Previously Vehicle Indicators)
Adds various blocks that allow making vehicles with precise weight distributions or allow to "change the physics" of drag.

Creation Center of Mass Finder
- creates particles to display the local axis of the indicator around the CoM of the entire creation
- shows the center of mass with a particle

Body Center of Mass Finder
- creates particles to display the local axis of the indicator around the CoM of the body the indicator is on
- shows the center of mass with a particle

Center of Thrust Finder
- shows the thrust vector of all vanilla thrusters on the creation at the center of thrust

Modes
The indicators can be switched through modes using the [Use] button. There are 4 Modes, which change the size of the displayed axis.

Drag Reducer
- lowers the inherent drag of the game from 2.5% speed per frame to 0.5%
- makes gliding planes and driving cars fast easier
- may be unbalanced, because creations now don't magically come to a stop as fast
- may be placed multiple times on a creation, it doesnt matter

Scale
- logs the mass and weight of the whole creation in the console when used
- rounded to 3 decimal places

Thrust Scale
- logs the length of the vector sum of all thrusts of all thrusters on a creation when turned on in newtons when used
- rounded to 3 decimal places

Note
On very large creations (5k+ blocks, intricate shapes) following blocks may cause a drop in framerate:
CoM finder, BCoM finder, Drag Reducer

This mod is open source! Feel free to create issues or pull requests: https://github.com/DasEtwas/scrap-mechanic-mods

tags: engi, engineer, tools, no drag, no air, air friction, com, cog, center of gravity