Solar tracking function for motors - for ISS-style trusses!

[softweir]

It would be useful to be able to set a motor to track the sun. Such a motor could drive a length of truss, and to that we could add solar panels. This would give 2 axes of sun-tracking, very much like the ISS. (It rotates its trusses as the main sun-tracking facility, and uses the solar panels' own tracking for smaller adjustment.)

As well as the code changes, the motors used would need some model or textural cues as to how it would align to the sun when activated:- a small greeble (such as a box with a sun-pointing lens) would be sufficient. If it was set up to be a model variant that would be nice.

[Vanamonde]

But it would stop tracking when the craft was not active, wouldn't it? Like rotating parts? 

[Bej Kerman]

9 minutes ago, Vanamonde said:

But it would stop tracking when the craft was not active, wouldn't it? Like rotating parts? 

Well I guess such a feature would set a flag that allows the part to move in timewarp, but would come out of timewarp if said part begins to intersect the collision of another object, or if the motor reached its limit.

[kerbiloid]

SSTU had a multiaxial solar panel.

 

[eekee]

I'd like a way to make a whole craft (with fixed panels) to track the sun.