I know it helps giving the impression of movement, but having "stars" moving in the background is very un-realistic... I'd actually be okay with the stars visibly moving on the grounds that the Factorio universe is simply a lot smaller and denser than ours, hence running into asteroid fie...

There is something I want to put forward to you, while you are working on planets and map generation: The availability of used map generation functions to mods. If I understand correctly, this is already possible. Mods can query the 'noise layers' for the surface at any time, using LuaSurface#calcu...

Oh this makes me very happy. The purpose of the new programmable noise system was to allow exactly these sorts of things. We just needed someone with a bit of patience to put it all together! I mean, the ridge function is in there for exactly the purpose that you put it to . (When I first mentioned ...

The hope I had when I created the terrain noise system was that someone, someday, would take the idea and extend and polish it, which it seems you have. It's a slight bummer to lose compatibility with the old Lua noise expression definitions[1] (a goal of that design was to an AST-based common-denom...

without having to close the GUI and hunt for the information in a nearby power pole tooltip. Now that you mention it, that was some unnecessary friction. Decider combinator 2.0 I may still pine for Mindustry-esque programmable computers, but this maybe accomplishes about the same thing, and with mo...

Thrusters should definitely accelerate/decelerate the platform, not just "move" it. The video where the thrusters turn off and the platform stop moving looks downright weird. And I imagine that slowly getting one of those things up to speed would just feel a lot more satisfying and interes...

Very neat!

But now my "only build tracks on every third space" technique is obsoleted!

Alright guys, good work; now it's time to add mountains and non-euclidean caves and train tunnels.

> Quality Good idea. I think it will make the game a little more interesting. I don't mind the idea of randomness at all, and like that it's something I could choose to ignore, but then later choose to mess with it because it's an interestingly different way to play the game. The names are fine. > D...

Am I missing something there? You are not. Due to the terrain generator's nature as a massively SIMD virtual machine, it does not support lazily-evaluated function calls or if-else chains, meaning that every subexpression needs to be evaluated for each point on the map. Adding procedure delimiters ...

[...] Functional Reactive Programming for their UI code (and things like the building code), as these complex state interactions / asynchronous actions are exactly the kind of use case for this paradigm. [...] So, what is FRP ? Here is the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional...

I know the burnout feeling! I think a lot of it has to do with losing focus and not really knowing what to work on anymore. Having a partner (your kid, in this case) who approaches the project from another angle (like developing content, just playing it, or getting on your case about inefficiencies ...

note: this assumes walkable tiles draw transitions over non-walkable ones, in case you are thinking of creating a mod with new terrain type that player won't be able to walk on. Oh right. That's why I couldn't get my 'mountain' tiles working. There's an implicit assumption in the engine that the on...

Speaking of tile transition collisions, has anyone ever tried to make "solid" tiles (representing, say, a rock), that is not traversable, but should be drawn in over other tiles, such as grass? I had been trying to make this work for a while but was running into quite a bit of trouble. Fis...

Neat. Back in the 90s (when I first started trying to program games) cutting down the number of pixels drawn to the screen was super important, so basically every attempt to write games started with me writing a class that figured out which parts needed to be updated, and leaving everything else alo...

The reflections are what makes it look super cool. I want more details about how that works! Even if it's just: now every sprite has a reflected version that masked by the reflection texture. But can any tile do reflection?

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TOGoS, from conveyor belts to treadmills...there is only a step!

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Thanks for the well-wishes everybody!

Either the forum doesn't notify me when there's a new reply or I'm missing something basic about how to use it. Anyway... I'll give it a try. But in order to achieve the result shown in my pictures, I'd have to do some basic vector calculations. Is it possible to get the x and y component of the dis...

I think what we're seeing is a tiny scrollbar. This should be fixed in 0.17.70. Thanks for the report!

The TextBox code is surprisingly complicated, so this took a while to fix. Should work more properly in 0.17.70, though. Thanks for the report!

It might be possible to do something like this using spot noise. Spot noise returns a value indicating the closeness to the nearest of many points from an internally-generated list. If you took several spot noise expressions (using different lists of points, which you'd get by providing them with di...