With the rotation update more or less done and an ever shrinking amount of things left to add for the next version I took it upon myself to add some simple animations to most of the machines.
Now we are building a video game here and in video games, like many things, spectacle matters. Because we are not playing a glorified menu clicker here we want to see our machines work in some capacity. so while the old completely static versions were ok for version 0.2 I wanted to update and improve them for 0.3.
Some like the sawmill are just a very simple rotation animation that plays when it has an input.
The mining drill is not quite finished yet but also rotates and has a bit that extends down to where it is currently mining.
The power hammer moves up and down with its input as well.
and the stirling engine rotates with arm and piston movement. I even added some smoke effects out the stack while it is burning fuel.
Not going to lie I stared at this for way longer than I care to admit when I got it working in game.