*snap* If you're looking for an example mod Hand Crank Generator was originally written (by me :P) as an example mod, and has extensive comments on why things are done the way they are. It demonstrates among others: general localization, mod settings localization, localization of dynamic hotkeys ho...

B) For any semi-complex gui (that is to say anything with more than let's say 10 buttons) code readability and maintainability is greatly improved by not having to care about prefixing every button. How is readability reduced by prefixing objects/variables? Naming conventions in projects are made t...

@Mooncat: Concerning GUI Naming i consider it good practice to always check for the root name. This way i only have to keep the upper-most elements name unique and can keep the other buttons with more convenient namings. Don't know how other people handle this. local function is_my_gui(element) if ...

Loading complete, press any key. I herby preemptively request a (cli-)option to skip the "any key" event and jump directly to main menu. :roll: ### Also i'm not sure if a hotkey is really the best option to view tips and tricks. People (especially those who need tips the most) tend to for...

Have you tried making a blueprint of a single curved rail? You'd need two of them tho becaues blueprints can only rotate 4-ways and not 8 as the original curved rail.

As far as i can tell from building bounding boxes (trains probably work similar) the game tries to snap objects either to the center of a single tile or the intersection point of four tiles. So an object of {{-0.4,-0.4}{0.4,0.4}} would be centered on the tile it's placed on but an object {{-0.9,-0.9...

The slider is a combination of 4 different GUI elements and has no single-purpose design. Everywhere it's used in-game is custom fit to make it work in that scenario. What four elemets are that? If i had to guess without any knowledge of the code it looks like a progressbar with a "sliding but...

The decision was made to not allow fast replace from ghost with different direction. Maybe i'm understanding that wrong, but this bug report wasn't concerning fast-replacing ghosts. It's concerning ghosts that were revived before being fast-replaced and should thus be normal entities. If you need m...

(For the sake of readability for other ppl i'll answer in english too.) If you want to add a statement to an existing table and you dont care about it's position it's better and less prone to errors to use the table.insert() This couldn't be truer. I'd go even further and say you should _never_ use ...

If you count the number of keys in data.raw['item'] in data-final-fixes.lua you should get a mostly correct value for the number of item types. Be aware tho that: even tho uncommon mods are technically allowed to add more items even in -final-fixes, which will mess up your count if they load after y...

Well. Even assuming i was just looking for trees and ore and doodads, i'd still have to call those 272 get_tiles because i don't know which tiles were corrected. Meh :/. Mh. I looked up the definition for water tiles and they _do_ collide with the resource-layer. So this is clearly ore where it shou...

Erm. If this is "not a bug" then how am i supposed to handle this? The only method available for tile reading is a one-position-per-call function. This means after changing a chunk of 32x32 tiles i'd then have to call get_tile on the outside of all four edges of the chunk, that's 34*2*4=27...

That's a nifty way of stepping with stride. Benchmark results for 480 Void chests using either version as on_tick over 100k ticks: My current version: avg 11805.281 ms Your version: avg 11776.126ms Thanks (also for the numbers). It's amazing that the difference would be so tiny despite your frequen...

TA actually used 3D models internally. Though they'd be too low-polygon by now . Nice Page tho. That picture of the constructor denanolizing the natives :3.

But yes, end of the story is, until someone defines exactly what should or should not be prefixed, there is a lot of leeway in it, and these are my personal opinions on what should and shouldn't be. "Is made via a common/base-game process" seems like a good indicator for when to use prefi...

I've benchmarked that to be 40% faster than above snippet in Void Chest + The last time i tried to to a tick-distrubuted update i used a construct like this: local UPDATEDELAY = 60 local function on_tick(event) local tock = tick % UPDATEDELAY for index=#global.mystuff-tock,1,-1*UPDATEDELAY do --stu...

The fast replacing really looks neat :D. I'm suprised nobody so far mentioned the possibility of half-underground belts left over so far tho. For example if the player runs out of belt during the replacing. Instead of extra hotkeys, I would think a more elegant solution would be to only allow the fa...

@Bilka:
Err, that was obviously meant to only cancel when there was reviving going on, and - as marked by the smiley - was half-jokingly because i didn't actually expect that to happen.

Symptom: If an entity that is fast-replacable by itself (i.e. inserters, belts, mining drills) is .revive()'d in defines.events.on_put_item in a different rotation, then during the following fast replace the entity loses it's circuit network cables. Background: I was trying to write a small script ...

Oh. Heh. Yea, that would do it. I didn't expect the root itself to raise that event.

Thanks for the answer tho