How to set up a solar panel in Unity?

[Leo Wang]

I'm making a part that contains solar panels, and ModuleDeployableSolarPanel needs a secondary transform called suncatcher in the config I checked. I've tried googling it but all the tutorials are inaccessible. How do I set up a suncatcher in Unity? Is there any other thing I need to do in Unity to make a solar panel? Thanks.

[sumghai]

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[Mecripp]

9 minutes ago, Leo Wang said:

I'm making a part that contains solar panels, and ModuleDeployableSolarPanel needs a secondary transform called suncatcher in the config I checked. I've tried googling it but all the tutorials are inaccessible. How do I set up a suncatcher in Unity? Is there any other thing I need to do in Unity to make a solar panel? Thanks.

Its like a engine you just set a transformer on the part that's the solar panel and name it and looking at stock parts are set you just tell it what the secondaryTransformName = ******   is hope it helps

[SpaceMouse]

10 hours ago, Leo Wang said:

I'm making a part that contains solar panels, and ModuleDeployableSolarPanel needs a secondary transform called suncatcher in the config I checked. I've tried googling it but all the tutorials are inaccessible. How do I set up a suncatcher in Unity? Is there any other thing I need to do in Unity to make a solar panel? Thanks.

 

10 hours ago, Mecripp said:

Its like a engine you just set a transformer on the part that's the solar panel and name it and looking at stock parts are set you just tell it what the secondaryTransformName = ******   is hope it helps

Yeah, You just need a empty with the axis pointing the correct direction and named appropriately. I think you can do it in Unity by creating a new gameobject within your part.

[wasml]

I created a number of part projects including the Blender and Unit projects - one is a solar panel - so people could open the project and see how it was put together.