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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Techtonica makes me depressed. Factorio could be real 3D
- Replies: 13
- Views: 729
Re: Techtonica makes me depressed. Factorio could be real 3D
I thought this discussion was dead when it moved to off-topic on the first day. I have previously advocated for 3D factorio, so it is on-topic as a game suggestion. Moving this from suggestions to off topic seems a Word of God statement from the developers that Factorio will NEVER be 3D. Sigh. So th...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:49 am
- Forum: Off topic
- Topic: Techtonica makes me depressed. Factorio could be real 3D
- Replies: 13
- Views: 729
Techtonica makes me depressed. Factorio could be real 3D
I don't think the development team at Firehose Games have the expertise to reasonably duplicate what Wube has done with Factorio, with the lockstep game sync and highly developed sandboxed LUA API modding platform, allowing for massive multiplayer with opposing teams. Techtonica doesn't have anywher...
- Fri Mar 10, 2023 2:45 pm
- Forum: Modding help
- Topic: get generalized ore distributions from entity_prototypes ?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 414
get generalized ore distributions from entity_prototypes ?
Is there some way to parse the complex ore distribution equations buried in game.entity_prototypes into a single digit of randomness from 0 to 1, and which can then be added up across all resource types to equal 1 ? Turn this into a single number ... lol game.entity_prototypes.coal.autoplace_specifi...
- Fri Mar 10, 2023 1:46 pm
- Forum: Modding help
- Topic: Determine if item_prototypes attribute is a pointer?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 806
Determine if item_prototypes attribute is a pointer?
Is there a way to determine if an attribute in game.item_prototypes is a pointer rather than a static property? With all Bob's mods loaded, I notice the following endless recursion using the Global Variable Viewer mod: game.item_prototypes.diamond-5 .group.localised_name = "item-group-name.bob-...
- Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:16 am
- Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
- Topic: Engine licensing for a full 3D factory game?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1139
Engine licensing for a full 3D factory game?
Would it be possible for some enterprising developer group to license Wube's synchronized lockstep code simulator, multithreaded belt optimizer, LUA modding engine, etc to build a full-3D OpenGL/Direct3D factory game? It seems the developers of Satisfactory are rather grumpy that people keep asking ...
- Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:32 am
- Forum: Gameplay Help
- Topic: Is directly overlapped ore supposed to be possible?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1247
Is directly overlapped ore supposed to be possible?
Is this normal or a bug? Version 1.1.34
Mewmew's Comfy Factorio, vanilla softmod scenario, Fish Defender
I've got about 11,000 game hours in steam and I ain't never seen such a thing before.
Mewmew's Comfy Factorio, vanilla softmod scenario, Fish Defender
I've got about 11,000 game hours in steam and I ain't never seen such a thing before.
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 9:39 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Fish per Minute
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10756
Re: Fish per Minute
In vanilla it is possible to wait for 100 fish to load before launch, via a scenario softmod that periodically checks the inventory of every silo and activates the silo launch command, using control.lua.
I already mentioned it here, lol. Apparently it was overlooked.
I already mentioned it here, lol. Apparently it was overlooked.
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 9:12 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4534
Re: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
This is now all generated via a Windows 10 batch script, no hand-editing of any of it. https://i.imgur.com/FpyWkdr.png https://i.imgur.com/CW8rIaq.png https://i.imgur.com/pQyKFEo.png I'm not sure what happened, but the weird UI icon cropping has stopped appearing in 0.6.4. It is possible the croppin...
- Sat May 29, 2021 3:50 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4534
Re: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
Alas I ain't much of a programmer. The fully automagic would be a script to auto-download all the things and do all the magic hands-free, but that requires knowledge I do not have. Hmm. How do I make a Windows powershell script to ask for credentials, login to this here webthingy, and download from ...
- Sat May 29, 2021 5:10 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4534
Re: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
When you finish this, will you be making it public? Due to the fact that this is Wube's copyrighted content, I probably can't make it available as a direct download without their permission. However if the image modding actions can all be accomplished via ImageMagick commands, then nothing direct n...
- Fri May 28, 2021 3:21 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4534
Re: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
Assembler-1 new into old: Factorio_0.6.4.5945\data\base\graphics\entity\assembling-machine-1\ https://i.imgur.com/lyvU9l6.png 0.6.4 has the same number of animation frames as the current game (32) but uses a 6x6 grid which leaves 4 unused tiles at the end. magick convert assembling-machine-1.png -cr...
- Wed May 26, 2021 1:35 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Can there ever be a full 3D rendered Factorio?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9776
Can there ever be a full 3D rendered Factorio?
Something that has long annoyed me about this game is the forced bitmapped 2.5D perspective... when there isn't really a reason to keep doing that. Powerful 3D cards are now common, and last I recall this is primarily a non-console game, with many people sitting on near volcanoes of 3D rendering. Me...
- Tue May 25, 2021 6:10 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4534
Re: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
Lol, I see upgrading the 0.6.4 game object animations is possible, but would be a ridiculous effort done manually via a mouse. Someone would need to write a program to select image tiles out of the current game data, and recomposite / resize to fit the smaller and fewer animation frames of the origi...
- Tue May 25, 2021 7:24 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4534
Re: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
You ask why? So you never wanted to take grandpa out of the nursing home for a night of partying, dressed in the finest tuxedo and polished black leather shoes? Well, okay, so maybe gramps will stumble here and there, but he may enjoy the attention. https://i.imgur.com/4CE2E62.png It's sorta fascina...
- Sun May 23, 2021 8:59 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Fish per Minute
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10756
Re: Fish per Minute
M3wM3w / Mewmew Comfy Factorio has a way around this. Turn off autolaunch in the game GUI but have a separate scenario/softmod GUI control to trigger launch at 100 fish.
https://github.com/M3wM3w/ComfyFactorio ... to_win.lua
Scroll down to lines 246-286
https://github.com/M3wM3w/ComfyFactorio ... to_win.lua
Scroll down to lines 246-286
- Sun May 23, 2021 8:43 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Belt un-balancers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2533
Re: Belt un-balancers
Balancing to spread evenly across all belts on a bus is bad for machines that are dumping resources onto the belts, because objects on the belt take priority over incoming objects, and it is not possible for an object with space around it to slide forward or back to make room at that exact tick. If ...
- Sun May 23, 2021 8:34 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Wave Defense - Who Plays?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2758
Re: Wave Defense - Who Plays?
Eh, seems like this was Wube taking M3wM3w / Mewmew's incredibly popular Comfy Fish Defense and turning it into an official game scenario.
Have you seen Comfy Minesweeper? Wow, this is an amazing new scenario softmod. I pretty much expect Wube to turn it into another official scenario.
Have you seen Comfy Minesweeper? Wow, this is an amazing new scenario softmod. I pretty much expect Wube to turn it into another official scenario.
- Sun May 23, 2021 8:01 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4534
Re: Upgrading the graphics in 0.6.4
Moving assets from modern game to 0.6.4 data\core\sound axe-meat-1 -> (convert to WAV) axe-meat-2 -> (convert to WAV) axe-meat-3 -> (convert to WAV) axe-mining-ore-1 -> (convert to WAV) axe-mining-ore-2 -> (convert to WAV) axe-mining-ore-3 -> (convert to WAV) axe-mining-ore-4 -> (convert to WAV) axe...
- Sun May 23, 2021 7:55 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4534
Upgrading the old game assets in 0.6.4
Has anyone else ever tried upgrading the 0.6.4 interface and graphics to be like the modern game, as much as possible? https://factorio.com/download/archive If it's been done before, maybe I can download their project? I'd rather not be reinventing the wheel. https://i.imgur.com/GS90aDu.png I'm no e...
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:34 pm
- Forum: Not a bug
- Topic: [1.1.26] serpent.dump fails to dump recipe table
- Replies: 1
- Views: 816
[1.1.26] serpent.dump fails to dump recipe table
Factorio 1.1.26 /c game.player.print ( serpent.dump ( ( game.player.force.recipes ) ) Cannot execute command: Error: (serpent):85 bad argument #3 of 3 to '_ _index' (string expected, got number) Probably not what I want to do as it will scroll a hundred lines off the screen. I want the output writte...