Add setting to have overheat cooldown in steps #562
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Problems to be solved:
Currently the cooldown is done in steps of seconds and the time it takes a device to fully cooldown is also in seconds.
Gates however have a delay in server steps (always exactly 2 steps). This makes it nearly impossible to build circuits that can never overheat, in any circumstances.
Also, servers have a much longer server step dtime, which results in inconsistencies and bad defaults (see also #561).
Changes:
cooldown_mode
(enum: seconds(default), steps (default)) says whether to use the old or the new method.cooldown_time_steps
(float, default=125.0) andcooldown_granularity_steps
(int) can be used to configure the new mode, they work like their non-_steps
counterparts.*_steps
are typically much higher. If you use an older mesecons version, thecooldown_mode
setting is ignored and circuits will overheat. Also it's much more convenient to have separate settings if you want to play around with them. Furthermore, the new settings allow to define suitable defaults.125 steps is 2 seconds for a step time of 0.016 seconds. I was not able to measure a lower step time in singleplayer.
This is a pretty strict value compared to the old settings. But it isn't actually that strict, it allows one heat every 6.25 steps, which is enough for a shortcut NOT gate plus two diode gates for delay.
The granularity of 20 steps if the same as 0.5 seconds with a dtime of 0.025 seconds.
For servers the seconds-based cooldown would be ca. every 5 steps. So this value is more performance-friendly to servers.
I currently don't know exactly if this value is good, but it's probably good enough.
Other changes:
overheat_max
in settingtypes.txt.