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[Concept/Idea] Gearbox customization options #25

@MartyX5555

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@MartyX5555

First of all!!!

I know they are not part of the addon yet (and prob they wont become a thing in the short term) due to its laggy behaviour (convexes go brrrr), but nothing bad by leaving some tips possibly the creator could take into consideration.

Teeth configuration

I think teeth should be customizable under its own section, allowing stuff like this:
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Of course, unless the module diameter allows such sizes for the teeth, should be clamped to avoid big teeth for a small gear lol
Yeah, the detail clientside thing is good too, specially for the addendum part.

Module

Since teeth has their own config, the module size simply increase the gear "diameter" and the teeth are distributed along the whole circumference. If there are less teeths to put, then we will have spacious gaps among the teeth, having stuff like this:
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Adjusting a minimal gap distance among the teeth is fine too, that should clamp the total tooth count (as explained below).

Tooth Count

This could be based on a max teeth count vs what the gear module can have in reality. If you expect 50 teeth but the module is small, or the gaps are big, then you will have less. Ofc, not always the teeth specs will fit into a expected module, so the closest appropiate module size for the current teeth to the intended module size is fine. (the math that gets a module smaller than the intended but where the one more tooth means a bigger module than the expected).

And thats all what i can imagine for now. Again, im not even sure if the gears will be part of the addon at some time (maybe not), but that would be a cool addition.

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