Is a 1/sqrt(n) lookup table faster than doing the computation directly? Maybe if Lua I guess. Yes. Only the most simple functions will break even or be faster than a predictable memory load. But more importantly, having it as a table makes it trivially modable. I would rather say it depends. The bi...

I even recall having had to write extra code in a parser to reject trailing commas in array definitions.

While I agree with your formatting preferences Fury, I suspect being blind to your own mistakes applies here as well.

JackTheSpades wrote: ↑

Fri May 10, 2024 11:30 am

With turrets and artillery in the circuit network, all that is left is being able to send target coordinates to a artillery unit. Why? No idea but it could be fun

Automated deforestation.

If the game engine uses 2 different memory pools for data that's "read-only" and data that changes every tick, then the amount of memory duplicated in copy-on-write can be minimized to less than "doubling the memory usage", but I don't know if Wube uses any memory management str...

If it's possible, it might be worth exploring if the forked Factorio instance could unload essentially everything but raw entity data or similar. I don't know much about the internals of the game, even after reading all FFFs. If the fork() finishes and the forked process checks if it is the child a...

Akronymus wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:04 am

The first few seconds of the last music file gives me heavy simcity 4 vibes, specifically some rush hour expansion tracks. I REALLY like it.

I think either "gridlock" or "bumper to bumper"

It makes me think of puzzle pieces sliding around.

Perhaps if you could do that with a filtered storage chest instead?

Regarding pump filters. Say I have two pumps with different filters stationed next to the same fluid car connection point. Does the filter affect which pump connects to the car?

for a display board A limited bignum implementation in combinators should not be too difficult, especially since you're only adding in scalars. If the accumulator is larger than 1 billion decimal, subtract 1 billion from it and increment the next accumulator up. I guess that would be 3 or 4 combina...

Is there something we have missed? Another problem came up to my mind. I have a problem, where a train departs to a certain station, but in the middle of the trip it decides "I will go to a different one (with the same name)". It does this because the station, which it initially chooses, ...

dragon-architect wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:22 pm

mrvn wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:51 pm

If only there where instant through holes. A wire with one side red and the other side green.

I could suggest an arithmetic combinator set to Each+0=Each to accomplish that.

That's not instant. That's got a delay of 1 tick.

To multiplex channels onto the radar you need a clock. And beware the fool that uses a local clock to demultiplex the data. One power outage and the clocks will get out of sync. You hit the nail. To enable multi channel wireless communication, you need connect those location with a wire. :roll: :lo...

I don't think radar signals are for people who are already using factory-wide signal networks. They are probably primarily intended at players who use circuit-wired rail blueprints "because", never use it, until at some point late in they find a usecase and then find out there are too many...

I like it from a realism standpoint, but it might be better suited to a 'hard mode' mod.

Great stuff! These shots look far more atmospheric. 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. For explanation a use case for version 1.1: Let's say I want to make a mod, that flesh...

How come the Engineer can build towers to support aerial railways, but not to support power lines?

Seems more like a good argument for allowing UI/client-side only modding, because I can almost guarantee this won't be the last thing that someone can think of where one person might want one thing changed in the UI whereas someone else doesn't. I have long felt Factorio would be well served with a...

Interesting post, though I'm almost thinking it would have worked better as a single video with voiceover.

Our eyes and brains use RGB That's not true, it's just a useful fiction. We have (most commonly) three kind of colour receptors (cones) each of which is sensitive to different (but overlapping) parts of the visual spectrum; RGB is simply a reasonable approximation of displaying all colours. Light i...