My library uses exactly the same abbroach as deadlock says (including unregister when not in use) because I was also sorely missing it. Takes the target tick, method name and (a table of) paramters (without paramters it would be useless imho because of cases where the same handler happens multiple t...

I'm aware of the issue and it's something I know all too well, as I play on multiple consoles. Good to know. I know it's a complicated issue and difficult to please everyone. For the PC and Steam Deck, the plan is to use the Xbox layout, as this is what appears to be standard Eh, it's only "st...

Controllers - Respects known standards. @Twinsen As you seemed to care about the Asian translations, are you going to have a controller layout dialogue? I'm talking about the regionally-dependand standard use and swapping of X/Y and A/B buttons. I'm used to the Japanese layout (physical "right...

Why it does not have pollution though I dont know, In DSP you're just a robot sent to strip-mine a bunch of planets. Nobody is going to live on those planets, so pollution is a non-issue. Also the story seems to suggests that mankind lives in a matroshka-brain without a biological body, so even on ...

boskid wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:05 pm

Thanks for the clarification (and Dave for posting the correction request). Being somewhat unexperienced with train related stuff I simply wasn't sure - given the doc - if the observed behavior is intentional and supported or mere coincidence.

Here you go: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/stop-on-red An interesting read. get_rail_segment_entity Aha! No wonder my searching for "signal" didn't find it :). if signal.signal_state == defines.signal_state.open then return end Hm, the doc for signal_state says Can only be used if this is...

GuiElements are displayed by order of creation Related: https://forums.factorio.com/89834 LuaGuiElement.add{index=} was added to allow out-of-order creation of elements. Allows limited re-ordering by destroy/recreating only some elements instead of all. I suspect that "write support for index ...

I'd like to know if it's possible to make a mod to stop a manually controlled train if the signal isn't green? Could anyone help with that? Possible? Yes. Easy? No. I quickly hacked a proof-of-concept together but it's very crude. It'll stop single-direction forward driving manual (Edit: Oops, forg...

Slightly more complicated if it's a building that's still needed otherwise (to make something else). It's also possible for a mod/scenario to catch the build event for the building you don't want and then destroy the building. It would be far easier to remove the items_to_place_this relationship be...

Is your screen resolution less than 1920x1080, and/or you have interface scale set to something else than 100%?

I'd rather see an isometric view than hexagonal tiles. Imagine the possibilities if you had the ability to edit the terrain and build underground like you can in Rollercoaster Tycoon. Imagine the possibilities of having to actually manage several different levels of underground belts and pipes that...

You're forgetting heat pipes and unfuled reactors as a heat-storage method. They are lossless but not directly measurable. Personally I've never seen a large scale design using this approach but I'm sure they must be out there. (Also when optimizing for UPS accumulators are actually better than stea...

Btw, on the topic of "hired modders": As far as I have seen on the forum, Wube hired two modders. Also Bilka. Would be interesting to know who initiated that process. Don't forget Klonan :) For some reason I always assumed Klonan went the other way round. Was Klonan hired before or after ...

I'd like to see GTA 6 :lol: :lol: :lol: Thinking of the original 2D GTA games makes me wonder if the factorio engine would be suitable to relicense to other studios. Displaying a few buildings, explosions and textboxes already works :p. Btw, on the topic of "hired modders": As far as I ha...

+1 Read the directories, read mod.json, filter out duplicates, store the mods in a list, read dependencies in mod.json and write it into hash (mod -> dependencies) and look, if after load all dependencies have a mod loaded. If not, this mod isn’t activated. It was really not more than a screen of co...

LuaSurface.set_tiles(tiles, correct_tiles) has a correct_tiles parameter, have you tried turning that on/off? Another method would be to change map gen settings so that the game handles it for you. But those are a bit underdocumented and can be difficult to get right.

curiosity wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 15, 2021 10:25 am

I don't think the API website should need any tutorial. It must be simple and intuitive to use.

One might even go so far an argue that if the site feels like it needs a tutorial it's clearly overcomplicated. The old site's layout was quite straight forward.

Even if an on-damaged-return-to-port behavior was computationally feasible, is that actually a good solution to the problem at hand? That seems to me the more interesting question. A fleeing robot might already be surrounded by flames, or the "nearest port" might be positioned in such a wa...

Sorry, there is another error. tur = data.raw["ammo-turret"] for i, v in pairs(tur) do v.attack_parameters.ammo_categories = a end You shouldn't use a global variable to store a temporary table reference that is only used once. Either local tur = data.raw["ammo-turret"] for i, v...

(I accidentally deleted curi's original comment, but thankfully it is preserved in this reply. Whoopsie) https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Localisation#Built-in_parameters says "We can also use this for items and entities etc.", but there is no list of acceptable keywords anywhere. Yea, i...