heat resistive PCLN and others
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I think TPT would benefit from PCLN being heat-resistive. A lot of uses will be added, as very hot elements or PCLN in a hot environemnt could be easily controlled (which is not the case right now, because the PCLN and NCSN will melt, and theyre used to activate/deactivate it. And this change will break few (if any) existing saves IMHO
And another thing is, i might have missed it, but is there a solid that doesnot conduct heat, but conducts (doesnt block) electricity? kind of like HSWC, but without the activating part?
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PCLN doesn't melt? O_o
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no, PCLN conducts heat, heating whatever solid it might be producing.This is a bit tricky.
Lets just say i wanna clone something like plasma, with PCLN. so to not melt the NSCN/PSCN, i leave 1 pixel open, and make more PCLN to produce some space, and DMND around it so it wont produce plasma (i JUst want it on that 1 pixel i left open). Now, if i activate it, i will leave 1 space betwen the metals and the PCLN. But when its active, it will produce some DMND, so the metals touch the diamond, and its all molten. if i place it directly touching the PCLN, the PCLN will melt it.
So im in a bind.
@dnerd it does heat up and melt stuff...see this300358View Save 300358 -
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@ven1x (View Post)
Yeah but some lasers use PCLN as a heat transfer medium between the heating units and the photons. The one pixel gap can be maintained by setting the ctype of the PCLN close to the PSCN and NSCN to SPRK. -
ok nvm i checked the wiki. but it still doesnt work...simply doing
set ctype pcln nonewill only reset the clone material, hence whatever it gets in contact next will be cloned again...
ok putting spark in there did the trick. Ok time to update my guns =) thx a lot -
I managed to keep the problem from occurring with the lasers I made by having some INSL between the PSCN/NSCN and some PCLN that has a harmless ctype coming farther back from the "working" PCLN. The INSL stopped the heat from melting the NSCN/PSCN but not the spark, and the "transfer" PCLN carried the on/off signal to the "working" PCLN. As it appears that INSL doesn't catch fire from heat transferred through materials, INSL may prevent the melting in most situations where it does not come in direct contact with fire, plasma, or lava. Not sure if that info will help you any.....
