Hello, I was wondering if you could either add on to this mod or make a new mod. It might be a little trickier to do what I'm about to propose, but I think you might do a better job based on this mod.

You could make a tool where you can connect different gears of various sizes. Of course I will have to mention how I think it could work. One problem I already see is that they are round with no edges. But what if you count each tooth as an edge? Like this mod, the only time the object's center is under the crosshair is when you are not connecting it, (or if you adjust the offset in such a way). But unlike this mod, (this is the tricky part) the amount of edges depends on the amount of teeth (or space between teeth). Thats one idea

The settings panel could contain 1. Each gear categorized together (because different gears have different size teeth and gaps, so 1 gear sometimes would not work with another gear). 2. A few checkboxes: Should the gear turn by itself or with a keypress?, Toggleable?, Should the gear have a constant angular velocity?, Gravity?, etc. 3. A few sliders: Torque, Friction, etc.





Another idea is a little simpler, but more complex than the vanilla axis tool (similar to a Smart-Axis Tool where there is less problems and frustration in getting the gears to line up (I've yet to find one on workshop)).

You could make them connect like this: Put down any gear -> Choose any gear to connect -> (optional: change settings) -> Left click center of gear to attach the 2 gears. This would mean a few things: 1. Each gear would have to have 2 defined radii (Center to edge of tooth, and Center to open gap between teeth). With this method, in order to choose which "edge" to place another gear, you have to change the settings, you can't just left click on any tooth/gap. (Default settings: When placing another gear, it would go directly above the gear, unless you change the settings)

The settings panel could contain a few things to make it easier for all gears (with various amounts of teeth). Instead of which tooth to place it, it can use angles (which are rounded to the nearest tooth). As well as everything mentioned in the above paragraph about settings.


Now I don't know much about the Lua programming language, so if you have a another idea for how this would work, by all means go ahead.