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Before I start writing the training for the Engineering station, which includes rectors, power distribution, repairs, and heat management, I'm buttoning down the behavior around heat. It's not great — figuring out how to cool down systems is not intuitive enough, so back to the drawing board.

Thorium

@thoriumsim.com

I wrote a proposal about how I want to change things — a more simple coolant loop which should be easier to model in the simulation and more intuitive for users. Currently neck-deep in heat transfer equations, wish me luck! github.com/Thorium-Sim/... #gameDev #spaceship

github.comHeat and Coolant · Thorium-Sim thorium-nova · Discussion #782I've discussed heat in several places, including #369 and #521 As I was working on tweaking heat to make it work correctly, I realized it's incredibly opaque — it's easy to see how much heat a syst...

22/7/26, 8:16 pm0 reposts7 likes

Thorium

@thoriumsim.com

22 July

This research is really just about understanding the underlying physics well enough so I know how best to fudge it. 🙃