I'm currently making of a mod, that adds an insane amount of chemical elements, reactions and machines, however I'm a shitty artist, so there is still a texture missing.
The graphics should be for a 3x3 entity.
It should be colourful and futuristic looking reaction chamber, so I thought about a tank ...

Hi I'm new to the whole modding-thing, so I was wondering what the easiest way to create textures for machines was

Pandemoneus wrote:If your mod is named chemfactory then the path has to start with __chemfactory__ too, and not __Chemfactory__.

got it thanks

Klonan wrote:The path is case-sensitive

So that means what?
(Sorry I'm completely new to modding)

when I start Factorio, I get the error "Path __Chemfactory__/graphics/icons/reaction-chamber.png does not match any mod, however the patch is correct.

reaction-chamber.lua:
data:extend({
{
type = "assembling-machine",
name = "reaction chamber",
icon = "__chemfactory__/graphics/icons/reaction ...

Kajanor wrote:Your recipe prototype has no icon defined.

That's what the error says.

Add one by adding

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icon = "__MOD-NAME__/some-path/filename.png"

to the code.

(I could be wrong, it's been a long time since I last modded the game myself.)

Yea that was the problem. thanks

I wrote a little mod, however I always get this error: Error while loading recipe prototype "hydrogen" (recipe): No such node (icon).
{
type = "recipe",
name = "hydrogen",
category = "chemistry",
enabled = true,
energy_required = 3,
ingredients =
{

{type="fluid", name="water", amount=1 ...