Factorio modding today has never been quite so evolved... Once this wasn't a big deal, but I'm running into it more and more - I would like to be able to have an event that tells me when another mod modifies a surface; it would really help a lot with improving compatibility between mods and not ...

Sadness. Ok then.

I would like to request that defines.relative_gui_type be expanded to include the following guis:

ToolEquipGui
quick_bar_window_frame
shortcut_bar_window_frame
right_container_frame

Thank you.

What you want is a way to get a reference to the character entity while in a cutscene. And then for every quick-start mod out there to properly deal with the different controller types a player may be using.


This does sound like the most reliable way to deal with it. Any time a player's ...

I've been told in the Factorio discord that the remote calls do not work for complex items (eg power armor). Disabling the cutscene is in consideration as it interferes with more than just TinyStart but... I'd really like to avoid that kind of impact on end users.


I'm not sure what you mean ...

If this is about TinyStart - you can use remote calls to the freeplay scenario script to set up starting and respawn inventories and even disable the initial cutscene completely if it is causing other issues somehow. In my experience those work reliably regardless of whether the game start ...

defines.events.on_player_created

This event either does not fire when freeplay starts now, or it fires before the character/their inventory is valid. This means that previous functionality that relied on defines.events.on_player_created to spawn stuff for a player at the start of the game must now ...

That was very fast. Thanks!

Using:
game.surfaces[1].brightness_visual_weights = { 1 / 0.85, 1 / 0.85, 1 / 0.85 }

When:
game.surfaces[1].daytime == 0.5

results in some odd rendering on the map. In particular, light sources appear. For example, the engineer's flashlight:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments ...

It seems to me min_brightness was used just for making night pitch black.

The mod that I use this as a part of is called "Clockwork". While I think the most common use case is to make nights as dark as possible, that is by no means a requirement. At least pre-18, it could also be used, of course ...

posila wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:36 pm Thanks for the report,
however there has never been logic preventing that from happening

Attached screenshot of running your command in 0.17

Strange, I guess I must have avoided it out of sheer luck before. Thanks for checking.

In testing updates for the mod Nightfall (which does not spawn any biters), I use this command:

/c game.surfaces[1].pollute(game.players[1].character.position,5000000)

However, I noticed this causes large and behemoth biters to spawn even on day 1 (unmodded daylength). Included is a screenshot ...

Setting game.surfaces[1].min_brightness to 0 does not make the map completely dark/black outside of light fields at the darkest portions of the night.

Could we please get an atan2 function added to the noise class? So that, for example, I can call noise.atan2(x - tile.x, y - tile.y) or similar.

Thank you.

You need only 7 lines of code (well, 6 not counting the space) to prove there is a bug where the event does not always fire.

Everything else just makes it easier to find, but if you want to go through each built entity's unit number manually and see that no event fired for some of them, you ...

Thanks for the report however I don't believe there's any bug here. The event doesn't care if you fire 1 per 2 weeks or 5 million in a single frame - they all get fired every time.

I'm going to move this to modding help until it can be proven that there's anything going wrong on the games side ...

I am most likely to believe this is a scripting error rather than a game engine issue

The robot event has been in the game for a very long time, use in very many mods and scripts, and no issue has ever been reported with it


The conditions that need to be met to write to the log file are pretty ...

defines.events.on_robot_built_entity doesn't always fire when there is a large number of queued robot construction tasks.

[*] It is possible that the bug below can also only occur after a large number of robot deconstruction tasks have been processed, I haven't been able to determine this for ...

Rseding91 wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 9:24 pmI could easily make a property which just shows "an area" around the item when in the cursor that has no other logic. Unless someone has better ideas.

For my purposes this would be perfect.

When a mining drill is in the player's cursor, the resource mining area is displayed with a highlight.

However, as far as I know, there is no way to do this with a modded item that is not a mining drill nor a power pole.

Therefore, as part of LuaPlayer.cursor_stack or LuaPlayer.cursor_ghost, I ...