[MOD 0.11.x] ThunderGui - v0.2.3

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

I've seen a lot of nice mods adding some buttons and timeDisplays. I wanted something that could bring all of them together or have a framework to do so. Thus I started ThunderGui.
The base of the ThunderGui interface shows total-play-time(infoPanel), a speed-button-menu and a settings-button-menu(actionPanel). Followed by a minimizer-button(to show hide the actionPanel). The interface is extendable by adding "plugin" like mods.
ThunderGui is Multilplayer, Singleplayer and Scenario-stable/tested...AMAP.

Download:

ThunderGui_0.2.3.zip

The base mod. (6th release 20-mar-2015)

(19.69 KiB) Downloaded 1528 times

ThunderGui_0.2.2.zip

previous stable. (5th release 19-mar-2015)

(19.78 KiB) Downloaded 283 times

ThunderGui_0.2.1.zip

old stable (4th release 14-mar-2015)

(17.17 KiB) Downloaded 306 times

features

• clock display: showing total game time passed as in real-normal time passed
• wind display: showing wind orientation(plugin: TGWindDisplay)
• speed+ button: open/close a compact menu to change game-speed (like a classic sim game!)
• players+ button: open/close an overview of: player names, their life and current vehicle; Or player names and status(dead/alive)(plugin: TGPlayers)
• settings+ button: open/close thunder Box, the window where all settings can be found
• every previous feature can be disabled, and changed in-game
• every previous feature can be replaced or extended by plugin-mods
• a transparant button to show/hide the list of buttons(actionPanel)
• MultiplayerSafe Mode option: if true only gameHost aka Player 1 can change speed and change global settings
• lots of settings per player and global settings
• a simple config.lua to alter default settings
• and even more
• need a convienient place to display your mod's settings, info, cheat-menu, actions, or events? enhance it to be plugIn-able!

screenshots pt1

How to use basic buttons:


Displaying ThunderGui ONLY:

screenshots pt2

ThunderGui + recommended plugins (TGWindDisplay and TGPlayers)





next 2 images show that the player table has 2 layouts, changed by the privateTableView Option

how to install

1) download the zip file(s)
2) move the zip file(s) to the "mod" folder, no need to unzip it.
3) have fun

Recommended Plugins:

Want to see who's in-game? Use this TGPlayers plugin.

TGPlayers_0.0.2.zip

Adds a players button show/hiding a player table. Requires ThunderGui_0.2.0 or higher! (2nd release)

(8.21 KiB) Downloaded 396 times

Would you like to see the wind orientation while you play? Add the TGWindDisplay plugin.

TGWindDisplay_0.0.1.zip

Adds a wind-orientation display. Requires ThunderGui_0.2.0 or higher! (1st release)

(4.77 KiB) Downloaded 398 times

Developer Plugins:

For people that would like to make a plugin i've made an example/sample of how that should be possible in the TGSample mod

TGSample_0.0.1.zip

The plugin example. (1st release)

(3.8 KiB) Downloaded 279 times

And to make things easyer on developers making and understanding the workings there's the TGDevTools mod

TGDevTools_0.0.1.zip

The developerTools plugin. (1st release)

(7.55 KiB) Downloaded 286 times

Extra info:

The mods come without a licence, you are free to do as you like with it. There is no Readme but the scripts are very structured and commented imho.

version logs

ThunderGui:

• 0.2.3: on 20-mar-2015
  • minor visual bug fixes
  • 0.2.2: on 19-mar-2015
    • improved: update-speed of changes made in settings-menus
    • added: SLOW_GUI_UPDATE_MODE default false
    • added: DEFAULT_ACTION_PANEL_MINIMIZED default true
    • minor bug fixes + performance- and look improvements
  • 0.2.1: on 14-mar-2015
    • bugfix: crash when creating a new game
    • minor bug fixes due to cleaner coding
  • 0.2.0: on 11-mar-2015
    • changed: exported windPanel to a plugin
    • changed: exported Players+ button to a plugin
    • changed: Clock only shows total time ( a plugin to get the old style back is still possible tho )
    • added: Player-specific gui-options
    • changed: Players can change the their gui-options and plugin-settings regadless of MultiplayerSafe-state. The other settings are still guarded by MultiplayerSafe-state.
    • added: buttons etc. for Removing plugins
    • bugfixes
    • refreshed: screenshots(cant add more, attachments-limit=10)
  • 0.1.1: on 5-mar-2015
    • changed: the player name colors to be like their player's character
    • added: privateMultiplayerMode, if true the player-overview only list playername and player-status(dead or alive), for pvp games
    • bugfix: check if ThunderGui version changed and plugIn's got removed at the same time
  • 0.1.0: on 3-mar-2015 (initial release)
  TGPlayers:
  • 0.0.2: on 14-mar-2015
    • bugfix: crash when creating a new game
    • added: version checking
  • 0.0.1: on 11-mar-2015 (initial release)
  TGWindDisplay:
  • 0.0.1: on 11-mar-2015 (initial release)
  TGSample:
  • 0.0.1: on 3-mar-2015 (initial release)
  TGDevTools:
  • 0.0.1: on 3-mar-2015 (initial release)

todo

• Translations/locale.
• improve gui style
• find a way to display some extra settings explenation in the advanced-settings page
• create a TimeDisplay plugin to show the day/virtual-in-game time again
• use safeMultiplayer option in TGPlayers-plugin-settings
• show the mod with a youtube vid

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The motivation:
Vanilla Factorio is great, but it feels like something is missing, it's in Alpha/Beta duh. I hope someday a "factorio++" or "vanila++" -mod(pack) pops up fixing that feeling and give the developers good ideas and a boost to implement them. Like TreeFarm_lite, fluid-barrel, itemCount, TheFatController and a lot more i still need to discover on my own. All of them keep it a 100% Vanilla feeling, but the missing things are getting fixed.
I want to see ThunderGui evolve the same way too, and join that list. Bringing things we all realy want a little bit faster. Logic + Factorio = pure fun.

Finaly:
I would realy like your reaction on how it fits, if u have a good idea, suggestions or bug reports.
I would love mods like TheFatController popping up a plugin for this.
If you made a plugin or update for this mod please leave me a PM!

[Piranha]

Very interesting, will have to give it a try later.

[aumaFactori]

work!! thank!

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

Very interesting, will have to give it a try later.

Thank you sir,

Your youtube video's on pvp look interesting. Gonna see through on who wins!
If my mod could be of anny use to your future endeavours that would be so pure awesome!

[Piranha]

Glad to hear you enjoying watching them! Thanks!

If my mod could be of anny use to your future endeavours that would be so pure awesome!

I'll report back here after I test to let you know how it goes.

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

I had this briliant idea to make the player names the same color as the character's in game. And simply had to put it in there.
Also added a new privateMultiplayerView option that, when active replaces the "life" and "vehicle" columns with a "status" column beeing "dead" or "alive", should be good for the pvp games and alike.(default off, like vanilla/coop)

[Piranha]

I still haven't loaded up Factorio since seeing this But I wanted to say this:


I'm not sure if this is completely necessary but I've always thought a button that would run the game for 20mins and then pause would be helpful for us youtubers (or anyone who wants to only play for a certain number of mins).. Although I think many people would disagree with me.. so here is my suggestion..

-Have a timer button (toggle on/off like the others)
When pushed: countdown timer starts, game unpauses, timer starts, game pauses.

..but I think every time should be able to be edited (so people could play for 20 mins, 30 mins or 45 or...you get the point)..

So for example:
-Start-
Game paused.
Countdown from x to game start, min value of 1
Game unpaused,
Timer starts for x minutes of recording,
Game pauses.

With numbers:
Game Paused.
20 second countdown to game unpause,
Game unpaused,
Timer for 20 mins,
Game Pauses.

If possible add in "warnings" so something like "X mins remaining" would show on the screen.


This is just an idea, if you don't want to put it in your mod that is fine
(maybe just make a working plugin for me, haha )

Edit: oh and the last tweak you made is cool, the colors and dead/alive.. I like it

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

Although some configurable alarm-clock can be made, as a plugin here or not.
As far as i know it's impossible to have a mod pause the game. As an alternative the mod could remove the characters until the game should continue and maybe set speed to 10%(factorio doesn't alow setting it lower).

[Piranha]

Hmm interesting.. well it was just an idea.. I'm sure there is a better way to go about doing this anyways.. I just sometimes see multiplayer videos where the run times for people are off by a couple mins..

With the PvP series Klonan and I are doing it's a bit easier because we are talking to each other so saying the start/stop is coordinated much easier. We also pause before and after and usually cut the video right after and before the pause is shown to keep are videos as close to the same as possible.

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

The mod is still working with the latest factorio-0.11.17 update, hurrah
The things I wanna do with the next update are important, so i hope to see feedback from you guys. Is it a good move not?

plans:

• Change: the windDisplay into an optional plugin, because I think its a more optional thing for most people. Sertainly since I have a feeling it's not a -real bonus-, does the pollution even go with the wind?
• Change: the player overview into an optional plugin, because of 2 things: 1 its easyer to manage and extend the code, 2 it could then come in multiple flavors thus, taking less processing power checking your options during each gui-update. Some like a simple overview others want admin flavored kick and cheat buttons, and some both...
• Change: shrink time display to only show total time by default. I've noticed that MoWeather stops/replaces the build-in dayNight-time-cycle, breaking the gameTime clockDisplay. To show more change settings or add in a plugin?
• I think I should keep the speed buttons, though I can imagine some possibly prefer this as a plugin too.

That way it focuses more to the essentials that are missing and give other mods and mod-packs more freedom.

So, how would you react to that update? good/negative and if possible what would you prefer to see in the update?

[kanersps]

I'm interested in this, gonna give it a try!

EDIT: (just started up factorio) your folder isn't named with the version, so you have todo that manually if you want the mod to work.

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

That's only the case if you have unzipped the mod. This mod works in zip format, aka download straight to the mod folder.

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

Lots of downloads for 1 week(50!), and no serious bug comments nor complaints so far!
So I move forward. A buch of things have changed as planned in previous post.
Leave more comments, anny feedback would be realy helpfull!

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

Tested my mod with the latest update(0.11.18). It's working perfectly in SP, still need to test MP.

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

ThunderGui version 0.2.0 and TGPlayers 0.0.1 had a nasty bug when you created a new game from scratch. So i made this update asap.

[Kane]

Thanks. Right now just using the time played. I went through config lua and disabled speed popping up in new games. Mainly because seems settings don't save from one new game not a big deal there just doing a LP Series and don't want people to see the speed being there to begin with.

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

Thanks. Right now just using the time played.

Great to hear that.

I went through config lua and disabled speed

That's the perfect way of dooing that!

Mainly because seems settings don't save from one new game not a big deal there

You had me puzzling a while there... but yes the settings are saved on map-level. So each time you start a new game it takes the default settings from the config.lua file. Feel free to change them to your needs.

Changing config.lua could be so handy, like you did, because (technicaly) MODs can ONLY save/store variables in their .lua script OR the game's map-related-variables(who then go to save games).
At least that's as far as I know, what I can do. If this is not the case please let me know!

EDIT: One thing to keep in mind if you change config.lua and want to join a server, that will probably cause desync errors. It is recommended that every player has identical copys of the mods that are used.

[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

New update brings: ThunderGui 0.2.2

• faster/immediate gui-update when changing of settings
• new config option SLOW_GUI_UPDATE_MODE default false (for developing/debugging)
• new config option DEFAULT_ACTION_PANEL_MINIMIZED default true (minimize/show buttons by default)
• improved style/layout

screenshots

note: more than only my own mods are visibile in these screenshots. I do not intend to place them as screenshots in my main post.

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[Mr. Thunder_Tw]

More free time than expected: ThunderGui 0.2.3

• Improved: layout consistency
• Bugfix: always print if a version-change was detected (previously only if developerMode is active)
• added new screenshots

[Feanor94]

La mod non va; dopo averla inserita nella cartella MOD, non fa partire neanche il gioco, come mai?