is there a module / plugin that can check for presence of other part/mod/resources on a craft?

[DBowman]

I thought to make some parts that 'worked together' to produce / consume resources without having them do detailed simulation. The idea was to avoid any of the weird high warp & not active issues, to having to cope with them via 'catchups' or 'background processing'.

Is there some mod/plugin that is like a ModuleGenerator/ModuleResourceConverter/TACGeneric... that can check some prerequisites for for producing?

For example one can easily use MM to create a 'reactor' part to produce as many kW as you like - but really it needs to have adequate radiators. Near Future Electrical looks like it's done a great job of detailed modelling, including overheat damage etc. But that is kind of overpowered for what I intended.

An alternate approach would be to have a resource 'ThermalSink' and some kind of 'ModuleResourceConverter' that 'required' a certain amount to be present in order to produce output but did not consume that resource. Like a CATALYTIC_INPUT vs INPUT_RESOURCE & OUTPUT_RESOURCE. It would be great/interesting if it could check for and require other things; needs photons, temperature range, atmosphere density, gravity/not, ... but just a resource check would be great.

If there isn't something like this does anyone have any suggestions re any existing plugin that would make a good starting point? or lesson as to how this kind of things gets implemented as a plugin?

[Crzyrndm]

Have the same resource in identical quantities on input and output of ModuleResourceConverter. Nothing of resource X gets consumed, but its presence is required to run.

Edited June 11, 2015 by Crzyrndm

[DBowman]

D'oh - thanks Crzyrndm, I'll try that for sure. My only worry is that high warp / unload & load might mess up and leave 0 of the resource as a boundary/race condition, but I guess I can just make the 'required part' itself generate it's resource also.

I'd still be interested in some existing mod that could be a good start for me to understand how to implement something like this for other requirements like acceleration, pressure, etc.