This uses a fairly simple trick: the textures are animated, while the
model is static and has a number of rotated copies of the parts that are
seen to move (four copies of the blades, eight copies of the top/bottom
and their edges). The opaque parts of the textures then decide which of
those faces' copies are visible in each frame.
This makes development of new features easier, as documentation can automatically be updated on the website without modifying the website's code!
Every mod that has nodes in the mesecons modpack has a "doc" folder that contains subfolders with recipe, description and preview of the block. The website will discover which documentation is available
by reading the documentation.json file.
flexibility and because it was never inteded to be OOP in the first
place.
mesecon.receptor_on and mesecon.receptor_off are provided by wrappers
(mesecon:receptor_on/off) for compatibility, but will be removed. Mod
programmers that use mesecons: Please update!
Also, fix microcontroller polluting the global namespace and remove some
deprecated stuff.