Switched over to being a generator, not sure why this is happening:

windmill ingame, angle is a little off. got the animation working but it only plays once for some reason. is it possible to just have it play and set the animation speed?

I think ive got it working as a generator. set the ontick to fire every tick to smooth out the graph.

also put together a quick model, that is most likely at the wrong angle.

Sweet, got it working as a generator type. but it acts kind of funny. It only updates once a second(event.tick%60) so i get this as a power graph:

So here you can see my awesome gfx. but the question being, why do i get unknown key ect?
in my data.lua

Im not sure why my post isnt showing up, so if this is a repost ill delete.

How do I define a new type? So I imagine i can access windmill.production and do something like windmill.production = (generate number) +"W"
as is, the 'windmill' is just a solar panel that reacts to the sun.
type ...

FreeER, that's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Sorry for the delayed reply, I was away for the weekend :P

(and especially if you haven't used a programming language before)

I actually have a degree in computer science and am working on a masters. I didn't want to be too ...

After finishing a 60 hour freeplay game I wanted to try my hand at modding. I saw that windmills have been somewhat debated already on the fourm but decided to try and make one myself.

So far ive got the research, item, and placeable working. the windmill at present works like a small solar panel ...