Heat system config documentation?

[Streetwind]

I'm looking for a documentation what the various fields are that you can put into a config file to change a part's thermal behavior. There seem to be a fairly large number, and almost all of those are never set anywhere, so I cannot learn from example. Also, when not set, they default to some number, but I don't know which ones. The config file documentation page on the wiki unfortunately does not mention the thermal systems at all. Is there a more up-to-date resource that modders use?

On a closely related topic, I'm also looking for an explanation of how exactly ModuleAblator works and what the various fields in it do.

Thanks in advance

[Red Iron Crown]

The default thermal values can be seen in physics.cfg, which is reasonably well commented.

[Streetwind]

Those don't seem to correspond to what few cfg fields I know of, though. Stuff like heatConductivity, emissiveConstant, skinMassPerArea, and so on.

For example... *grabs a random stock engine* ... the Thud. it has the following lines in its config:

heatConductivity = 0.06 // half default
emissiveConstant = 0.8 // engine nozzles are good at radiating.

This implies that a.) heatConductivity is a field that exists, and defaults to 0.12 (unless that comment is outdated); and b.) emissiveConstant is a field that exists, and the value set here is implied to be higher than the default, which is unknown to me.

Neither of those two appear in Physics.cfg.

Other parts may not have these fields specified. Some may not have any specific heat-related fields, but some also may have others that the Thud doesn't have. So I'm really confused as to what fields are even available to use.

[Red Iron Crown]

Hrm, looks like you're right. There are some thermal constants defined there but not all of them. Sorry for the misinformation.

[Nertea]

Uh, I know most/all of them, if I have some time in the next few days I might try to write up a guide. 

[Streetwind]

...I'd rather you spent what little time you have on your deserving mods, instead of satisfying my idle curiosity

But at some point it would indeed be useful, as it seems like it's very obscure knowledge.

Do you know about ModuleAblator too?