Foreman 0.1.9 - A factory optimisation tool.

PassCall · Post by **PassCall** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:27 pm

Mind if I recode it on a website ?

Yes, no problem

Nicksaurus · Post by **Nicksaurus** » Sat Mar 21, 2015 8:23 am

sadris wrote:I'm confused. I have DyTech enabled, which makes the recipe for Red Science pack a stone gear and copper plate. However, Foreman still says that Red Science is an iron gear. Does Foreman not actually read the recipe definitions? What does "supports mods" means?

It means it tries to read the recipes in exactly the same way as the game does, which means that that shouldn't be happening. Uh... sorry about that.

DRE · Post by **DRE** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:43 pm

ProductionGraph::SatisfyAllItemDemands() never ends, if I try to autocomplete chart for rocket defences / minute.

nodeChosen is always true.

EDIT: Program hangs only if factorio is running.

DRE · Post by **DRE** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 12:40 am

You calculate speed bonus, adding bonus to basic crafting speed.

I think it is correct to sum bonuses from all speed modules, and multiply it by crafting speed + base crafting speed.

n9103 · Post by **n9103** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 1:19 am

DRE wrote:You calculate speed bonus, adding bonus to basic crafting speed.

I think it is correct to sum bonuses from all speed modules, and multiply it by crafting speed + base crafting speed.

Effective crafting speed = base crafting speed * (1 + net speed modifiers)

slay_mithos · Post by **slay_mithos** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:46 pm

I really like the idea behind Foreman, but it's a shame that it's not quite working when trying to make it load a lot of mods.

I wanted to try using it with darkshadow's pack, to generate clean graphs to help me setup my various production lines, as well as the numbers, but it didn't seem to load any data from mods.

I used to have an error log in older versions of the pack, pointing at "advanced equipment", specifically this line:
data.raw["gui-style"].default["adveq"] = adveq

Apparently, it didn't like "gui-style".

After a quick look through the code, the answer is obvious.
Factorio, since a few versions ago, is able to load mods that are in .zip archives (if named correctly), but Foreman only looks for directories.

This means that it won't even try to load any mod that are in .zip format, and due to most mods being distributed that way these days, it most likely won't load a single mod most of the time.

The first part of the fix for mod support would be to use ZipFile.OpenRead(ARCHIVENAME);
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/librar ... 10%29.aspx

I hope it helps, because apart from a few strange things here and there (seems to want to crack light oil for petroleum gas, somehow), this is a pretty good tool.

When I get the time, I might try to "fix" the mod support for the mods I am using, but I simply don't have the time right now to dedicate an unknown amount of time to it, and I don't want to do half assed "fixes".

Ranakastrasz · Post by **Ranakastrasz** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 3:44 am

I'm having trouble getting this to work for Dytech.
While it works for some of the items, it doesn't work for all of them.

It didn't work at all until I extracted all the files out of the Zip Directories, but that was already established.

Edit:
Apperently Foreman doesn't handle something correctly.. The data files require the Config. The Config defines several booleans for each subset of the mod. The Data file has a bunch of if statements enabling each part of the mod.

I made a second mod directory in the Foreman folder, and after extracting each mod, tore out that part of the code in the data file. It works for machines, but not for warfare or power. Unsure why.

Nicksaurus · Post by **Nicksaurus** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:09 pm

New Version!

https://bitbucket.org/Nicksaurus/foreman/downloads

The most notable improvement is that you can now save and load your flowcharts as JSON files. Now you won't have to remake them every time you start playing again.

Also, you can enable and disable specific mods, just like in the game. Your mod selections are stored in graph files when you save them.

There's also an option for loading game data in any of the languages that the game supports. This doesn't affect Foreman's UI text, but it will load item and recipe names in the language you choose (assuming your language has a translation for the specific item/recipe).

Finally, there are some minor UI improvements. The pop-up for choosing the type of node you want to make now disappears when you click off it or press escape, and you can now use arrow keys + enter to select filtered items more quickly.

EDIT: I also forgot to mention that it can handle zipped mods now.

Post by **Koub** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:07 pm

Nicksaurus wrote:The most notable improvement is that you can now save and load your flowcharts as JSON files.
Also, you can enable and disable specific mods, just like in the game. Your mod selections are stored in graph files when you save them.

You're my hero (twice)

However, I'm afraid I came across a bug. Here is a JSON (zipped for forum upload).
Have a look at the refinery products. It seems that the petroleum gas produced by the oil processing is merely ignored, all the petroleum used further in the flowchart comes from cracking, which seems suboptimal.

As a suggestion for the next version, may I suggest to add with the objects you can enable/disable the following options :
- Use basic / advanced oil processing
- Use cracking for Heavy > Light
- Use cracking for Light > Petroleum Gas

You can know neither what oil processing is used by the player, nor if he cracks everything to petroleum, or uses heavy/light for other purposes.

Nicksaurus · Post by **Nicksaurus** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:24 pm

Koub wrote:You're my hero (twice)

Aww

Koub wrote:
Nicksaurus wrote:However, I'm afraid I came across a bug.

Aww

Problems with oil refining recipes (and any modded items that have more than one recipe) have been plaguing this program since it began... I'll add in a menu to enable and disable specific recipes, but in the mean time you can just delete the recipe you don't want to use and put down the one you do. These problems won't be completely fixed until I sit down and write some proper code to make intelligent decisions about which recipes to use and in what ratios though.

PiggyWhiskey · Post by **PiggyWhiskey** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:56 am

Fresh bug report for you

well two actually.

1. When loading the Floors mod I get a crash. Repeatable, and only when Floors is in the active mods. https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 1&start=50

Crash Report

2. There seems to be an issue when loading mods that add extra items to the game.
I'm running with Dytech (Core/Machine/Power) which all add tier'd items (Mk4/5/6 assembler/solar/boiler etc)

Scenario
1. Load Dytech Core - Works fine
2. Load Dytech Machine - Works fine (all other tiers are displayable and usable)
3. Load Dytech Power - No Additional items added (Solar Mk2/3/4/5 etc)
Mods shows, base, core, Dytech Core, Dytech Machine, Dytech Power
4. Remove Dytech Machine - Works fine, Dytech Power items added correctly, Dytech Machine items removed.
5. Re-add Dytech Machine - Same issue as #3
6. Load Dytech War - Dytech War/Dytech Machine items aren't in the listing.

At first I thought it was the last mod listed not loading the items, but #6 puts that idea down.
So I'm not sure what, but it can't handle so many mods with new items it seems.

I stopped testing when I had it confined to Dytech, not wanting to complicate the issue by mixing other mods in there.

Nicksaurus · Post by **Nicksaurus** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 4:58 pm

PiggyWhiskey wrote:Fresh bug report for you well two actually.

1. When loading the Floors mod I get a crash.

Fixed. That one was easy. Floors marks its floor items as 'resources' which foreman took to mean that they could be mined by miners, causing it to crash while looking for mining hardness/item yield/etc. values that weren't there. I've put up a new version with this fix: https://bitbucket.org/Nicksaurus/foreman/downloads

PiggyWhiskey wrote: 2. There seems to be an issue when loading mods that add extra items to the game.

This... is harder. I've worked out what the problem is. Individual DyTech mods have config.lua files which enable and disable specific parts of the mod. However, since each config file has the same module name (as far as Lua is concerned), the interpreter only reads the first one and then assumes that all subsequent ones are just the same file again and ignores them. This means that anything that needs to be enabled in the config file just isn't loaded.

The thing is... I'm not nearly good enough with lua to work out how to solve this. I really wish I could look at Factorio's source code to see exactly how they load their game data and just emulate that.

PiggyWhiskey · Post by **PiggyWhiskey** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 1:25 am

Nicksaurus wrote:....
This... is harder. I've worked out what the problem is. Individual DyTech mods have config.lua files which enable and disable specific parts of the mod. However, since each config file has the same module name (as far as Lua is concerned), the interpreter only reads the first one and then assumes that all subsequent ones are just the same file again and ignores them. This means that anything that needs to be enabled in the config file just isn't loaded.

The thing is... I'm not nearly good enough with lua to work out how to solve this. I really wish I could look at Factorio's source code to see exactly how they load their game data and just emulate that.

Well config.lua is specific to individual mods and doesn't follow a standard convention, So you could potentially ignore these.
Otherwise you would need to manually code for every single mod that uses a config file including what items the mod means by each keyword.

As the config.lua controls whether certain items are present in the game, you already have this functionality in "Enable/Disable Objects" which the user can specifically disable the items that are blocked by the mod.
So I'm not sure what the config.lua is doing inside Foreman otherwise.

Nicksaurus · Post by **Nicksaurus** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:18 am

PiggyWhiskey wrote:
Nicksaurus wrote:....
This... is harder. I've worked out what the problem is. Individual DyTech mods have config.lua files which enable and disable specific parts of the mod. However, since each config file has the same module name (as far as Lua is concerned), the interpreter only reads the first one and then assumes that all subsequent ones are just the same file again and ignores them. This means that anything that needs to be enabled in the config file just isn't loaded.

The thing is... I'm not nearly good enough with lua to work out how to solve this. I really wish I could look at Factorio's source code to see exactly how they load their game data and just emulate that.
Well config.lua is specific to individual mods and doesn't follow a standard convention, So you could potentially ignore these.
Otherwise you would need to manually code for every single mod that uses a config file including what items the mod means by each keyword.

As the config.lua controls whether certain items are present in the game, you already have this functionality in "Enable/Disable Objects" which the user can specifically disable the items that are blocked by the mod.
So I'm not sure what the config.lua is doing inside Foreman otherwise.

It's not that simple - config.lua is just another lua script. Data.lua runs config.lua, which enables certain booleans, which in turn instruct data.lua to load several other scripts in the mod. If those scripts are never run, their data is never even loaded and they don't appear in the enable/disable list.

I think I'm just going to hack in a workaround that manually parses data.lua for any scripts it needs in the top-level mod directory.

oLaudix · Post by **oLaudix** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:54 pm

How do I switch from basic oil processing to advanced? Also can i somehow incorporate cracking into nodes like "basic oil processing to plastic"?. I dont think ill need 2 rafineries for 1 plastic plant if I crack light oil.

Nicksaurus · Post by **Nicksaurus** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 5:29 pm

oLaudix wrote:How do I switch from basic oil processing to advanced? Also can i somehow incorporate cracking into nodes like "basic oil processing to plastic"?. I dont think ill need 2 rafineries for 1 plastic plant if I crack light oil.

Delete the basic oil node and drag an advanced one onto the flowchart (either by dragging from a crude oil input on another node or by dragging crude oil from the item menu).

I'm aware of the limitations with oil processing at the moment though. There might not be a way to get an accurate reading on them for what you're doing...

oLaudix · Post by **oLaudix** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:02 pm

Nicksaurus wrote:
oLaudix wrote:How do I switch from basic oil processing to advanced? Also can i somehow incorporate cracking into nodes like "basic oil processing to plastic"?. I dont think ill need 2 rafineries for 1 plastic plant if I crack light oil.
Delete the basic oil node and drag an advanced one onto the flowchart (either by dragging from a crude oil input on another node or by dragging crude oil from the item menu).

I'm aware of the limitations with oil processing at the moment though. There might not be a way to get an accurate reading on them for what you're doing...

Ye i just take numbers of petrol i need that program shows me and calculate it by hand with cracking in mind ... As for the advanced oil i thought there is option to turn it on for "automatcally complete flowchart" button like assemblers and stuff. Ill just look at plastic and calculate rest by hand. Still best tool to help my ocd with good ratios. When i saw ammount of oil i would need for 1 rocket defence / hour i almost got heart attack ... I cant even imagine finding so much oil around ...

Ash19256 · Post by **Ash19256** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 10:38 am

Can this tell me how many miners/speed or productivity modules I will need to achieve a given input rate?

PiggyWhiskey · Post by **PiggyWhiskey** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:05 am

Ash19256 wrote:Can this tell me how many miners/speed or productivity modules I will need to achieve a given input rate?

Yes it can.
If you let it do its thing, it'll tell you how many speed modules/what type of assembler/furnaces to use as well.
And you can also lock it down. So if you want the entire production line to have the same type (All Assembler MK2 or all Steel Furnaces, it can calculate that too)
And it can also be limited to your current tech limit. There isn't any point to telling you that you can use Mk3 assemblers with Speed 3 modules if you can't craft them.

Ash19256 · Post by **Ash19256** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:18 am

Ok, why is this happening?

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

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