[1.0.x] BatteryIndicator (2015-02-09)

[pizzaoverhead]

If you like this concept, check out IndicatorLights by @Snark which does all this and more!

A little plugin that makes the light on the Z-100 battery pack change colour to let you know that it's running low.

Download from Curse

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Get IndicatorLights instead

Source included, licenced under GPL v2.

Includes ModuleManager, licence here.

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Planned features

• Colour blindness-compatible colours.
• Customisable colours.
• An extra colour (defaulting to blue) for when the battery is locked.

Change log

v1.0 (2015-02-09)

• Initial Release

Edited March 12, 2018 by pizzaoverhead
Superseded by IndicatorLights.

[vardicd]

This sir, is gold.

Edited February 12, 2015 by technicalfool
Despotic mod edit!

[NihilRex]

So simple, shoulda been stock.

[Epoxide]

wow that's really neat

[Astrofox]

Wow, that is a neat mod. Also, RO compatibility?

[jefferyharrell]

You're a genius. Just the other day I staged an elaborate rescue mission to recharge the batteries on a poorly designed upper stage and I resented the lying little green lights the whole time.

[zekes]

This is perfect. So helpful since you don't look at anything other than the ship often times when warping.

[pizzaoverhead]

This is perfect. So helpful since you don't look at anything other than the ship often times when warping.

I time warped to night to take the second half of the picture and found myself looking at a single yellow light. Probe cores: Sneaky little things!

[RyanRising]

This would be so awesome... had I not had Ven's Revamp installed. Oh well. Good work, though, like most of your other mods, this should be stock. 1.0 needs to have more of you in it.

[Pecan]

A wonderfully simple idea that probably wasn't as simple to code as it sounds and adds a very neat touch.

Change request: disabled mode indicator for my 'emergency reserve' battery. Blue, since the other primaries are in use, or dimmed?

[AndreZero]

I'm pretty new to KSP and as soon as I saw the light on the battery, Z-100, I assumed it was an indicator. Thanks to this mod, it is! Thanks!

[BudgetHedgehog]

This would be so awesome... had I not had Ven's Revamp installed.

Yeah, would kill for a SPR compatible version or patch or something. Subscribed for the future!

[Sampa]

Sir, one word: BRILLIANT!!!

[Vladthemad]

Any chance you can do the same for the Z-4K? Sadly the other three stock batts don't have lights.

[Whirligig Girl]

If this were to be made compatible with Ven's Stock Revamp's batteries, I'd be really really happy.

[Enceos]

That's one Steve Jobs level idea! Brilliant!

[Cultist_O]

Change request: disabled mode indicator for my 'emergency reserve' battery. Blue, since the other primaries are in use, or dimmed?

Ooh! seconded, I would love to have a colour for disabled batteries! (I would probably prefer cyan to blue though, (also primary) but I would defer that decision to the colour blind.)

[Sampa]

hey, this is just a plugin, right?

- - - Updated - - -

nevermind, I'm blind, just noticed that the title CLEARLY said Plugin

[BrutalRIP]

If this were to be made compatible with Ven's Stock Revamp's batteries, I'd be really really happy.

This^^^ x10 :cool:

[lancejammer]

Amazing idea; thank you for making this! Quick question... does the color indicate the charge of the individual battery, or of the ship's total battery charge?

[mfkdso]

Congrats, SQUAD account tweeted about this.

[sober667]

would be avesome to have same affeckt some way on bigger bateries

[Volt Cruelerz]

Colorblind mode please?

[pizzaoverhead]

A wonderfully simple idea that probably wasn't as simple to code as it sounds and adds a very neat touch.

Change request: disabled mode indicator for my 'emergency reserve' battery. Blue, since the other primaries are in use, or dimmed?

That's coming in the next version!

Amazing idea; thank you for making this! Quick question... does the color indicate the charge of the individual battery, or of the ship's total battery charge?

It's the charge of the battery pack itself. It wouldn't make sense for a little battery pack to have sensors hooked into the whole ship, and having lots of indicators displaying the same thing is less useful than having more information.

Colorblind mode please?

Working on it! I haven't found a good looking set of colours to fit everyone yet, but I plan to for the next release. It'll also be customisable, so you can pick whatever looks best for you.

[tajampi]

After 1 min of investigation, i found this could be easily tweaked to work with Ven's stock revamp.

The material name seems to be: unnamed.emissiveMaterial

Just change in the .cs file: t.renderer.material.name.Contains("light")) to t.renderer.material.name.Contains("emissive"))

It's untested, don't have time right now, but that should work right!

EDIT: The light gameobject will keep emiting light (illuminating parts) , but the color of the led should change. It could also be tweaked to work with the physical light, will take a look into it once i have more time!

EDIT2: This should work with all the batteries, but some of them may have different material names.

Cheers!

Edited February 12, 2015 by tajampi