I'm using TypescriptToLua and GlassBricks/typed-factorio for exactly the same reason. It's working really well. I'd never used TypeScript (or Javascript) before I started, but I found it easy to pick up. IntelliJ supports autocomplete well.

Thanks boskid! The 'round towards negative infinity' tip was really useful. I have something that's working now. Here's a preview https://i.imgur.com/UhkPlOA.mp4 That's me clicking around the web-map I generated from my Factorio test map. I drew letters in concrete to make sure the map tiles were ge...

I'm exporting tile-data based on events into a file, and I'm trying to combine them into chunks so that I can make PNGs of them. I'm getting confused because I'm not clear on the coordinate system that Factorio is using, and whether it's the same for each of these different positions. I have a lot o...

LuaObjects are now saved using binary format instead of previous format with intermediate Lua table. This speeds up general handling of LuaObjects and makes saving and loading with a lot of them noticable faster. Would it be possible to access this encoded data it in a mod, and then document it so ...

-> Thanks for the hints, both of these are fixed for the next release. Hi, I see that LuaSurface is updated, thanks! But Position x/y is not, they still show ints. Concepts.html#Position -> The Position concept has been removed for the next version, everything now uses the specialized positions lik...

Done, thanks! I'm looking quite closely at the types of fields so it's good to know where to go.

Having the correct types documented makes using https://github.com/GlassBricks/typed-factorio/ even more useful.

I think I've found some mis-typed fields: [list=1] [*] https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Concepts.html#Position Position x and y are documented as being ints, but when I get the player's position, it returns floating point numbers with decimal places. /c local p = game.player p.print(p.position.x...

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Concepts.html#Position Position x and y are documented as being ints, but when I get the player's position, it returns floating point numbers with decimal places. /c local p = game.player p.print(p.position.x.." "..p.position.y) -0.05078125, 46.48828125 ...

Bob's classes and character mod , for example, allows you to construct characters and leave avatars of yourself in the world. Say, your current character is of the miner's class. It's your character (player.character) which you are currently controlling: You move it up with <W>, you let it mine som...

Gotcha, thanks for the details! I understand better now, and I appreciate you taking the time to explain.

Thanks for the explanations - I understand the documentation better now. Would this re-write make sense? ( original ) A list of logged-in characters that are associated with this player. Associated characters are not controlled by the player (TODO what does 'controlled ' mean?). Characters can be as...

In case this is useful for others, I've found two other serialisation files in Clusterio

clusterio/packages/slave/modules/clusterio/serialize.lua


clusterio/plugins/inventory_sync/module/serialize.lua

Is LuaPlayer.position a convenience method for LuaPlayer.character.position?

Players and characters are different. Player is the controlling entity (i.e. you), character is the entity in the world that the player is bound to. Sorry yes, they're different, but when it comes to position they're the same right? LuaPlayer.position and LuaPlayer.character.position return the sam...

The reason the player.character is not included in the result is that it is controlled by the player. As the doc says, the function is for any characters that are associated with a player but "are NOT controlled by any player". Sorry I don't understand. The full section says Note: Charact...

Not sure what you are doing. But have you tried simply creating a list of fields you want to serialize for e.g. an inserter. Then loop over that list and for each field store serpent.block(entity[field])? I haven't tried that, I'm new to Lua so would you mind giving an example? I've managed to get ...

D'oh you're right, my mistake. I got confused by the documentation talking about players/characters as if they're different.

The event on_player_changed_position provides a player_index , but it's not the player that's updated - it's the player's character. To be more accurate, the event should be called on_character_changed_position , which should provide the same parameters (for convenience), plus the unit_number of cha...

What's the purpose of LuaPlayer.get_associated_characters()? I've run a quick test and it doesn't return anything - why isn't LuaPlayer.character included in the result (when the player is connected)?

I've found this topic which is similar. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=74131&p=448975. Rseding91 replied, and said none of the options would happen. I agree that modifying the source classes to add serialisation would be very detrimental, but I'd ask if Factorio could provide a util...