[1.1.27] cross-surface electric networks with solar panels produce wrong energy

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[1.1.27] cross-surface electric networks with solar panels produce wrong energy

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Weird behavior: Daytime changes on either (any?) surface seems to modify the solar panel production for a cross-surface network.

Steps to reproduce:
1. two surfaces, one small-electric-pole on each for simplicity
2. connect:
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3. place solar panels on one surface
4. accumulators on other
5. Change daytime on either surface e.g.:

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/c game.surfaces.nauvis2.daytime = .5
Result:
If you are on surface 2:
Changing surface 1, the solar panels stop producing power on the entity. (switched back to surface with editor) The network is still producing power.
Changing surface 2, the network shows 0 solar power even though the solar panels aren't there, and the panels on surface 1 still show power.

If you are on surface 1:
Same as above, so maybe there's a build-order dependence to the behavior?

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Re: [1.1.27] cross-surface electric networks with solar panels produce wrong energy

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Thanks for the report. Unfortunately that's a side effect of using this feature that isn't likely to ever change.
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Re: [1.1.27] cross-surface electric networks with solar panels produce wrong energy

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This issue will be fixed in 1.2

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Is this a clue for what will come in the expansion? ;)

I'm happy for improved surface connection support. It's such a cool feature and the mods it has brought are some of the coolest ones ever :)
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Re: [1.1.27] cross-surface electric networks with solar panels produce wrong energy

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No, i was simply doing code cleanup because an ElectricNetwork had a surfaceIndex and i wanted to get rid of this. There were exactly 3 places that were using the surfaceIndex and all 3 of them were broken: solar panels were using that surfaceIndex to obtain a daytime, lamps were using that surfaceIndex to also obtain daytime, and drawing of electric network lines in chart view was using this to filter which networks to draw.

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Re: [1.1.27] cross-surface electric networks with solar panels produce wrong energy

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Ok. Fixes for all 3 issues (solar panels, lamps, electric wires on chart) were backported and will be available in 1.1.79.

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