+1 from me as well, seems very useful.

@Karakurt I used this tutorial viewtopic.php?t=5336

Hm you'd need to create the spritemasks... Lot of work...

Uhm hello? Was my question stupid or anything? You said you're open to talking.

Bump.

So to be clear are we talking about stopping sounds too or just starting custom ones? You said you can't return a handle because sounds aren't saved. But I think that would be fine, if you're able to check if they're valid during load. Stopping would be cool but I can live without it. I would mainly...

I tried "match_progress_to_activity" but it doesn't work, the only difference is that it now cyclically resets even when not doing anything.
And I already made an interface request which you yourself said you won't implement

When I fly my chopper (carmod) over miners it stops the engine running sound loop and resets to the engine start sound. Flying over other entities does not trigger this. I made a short video where you can see what's going on. I should also mention that the sound emitting entity is not the one the pl...

Bilka wrote: ↑Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:36 pm https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Con ... #SoundPath already supports build, close and various other sounds.

Yes but the sound needs to follow the car.

Can you just make it so that I can trigger custom sounds at will for an entity, it's clearly possible from C++ to play car open, close and no fuel sounds. Maybe you'd define some custom sounds in the prototype, like you can with the afore mentioned. I really don't want to resort to entity hacks agai...

Yes you can play sounds at a position, but the sound's position can't be locked to vehicles, like e.g. engine noise. And rather than having to do a crazy entity hack it would be great if you implement it :) Additionally, if it's not too inconvenient to implement, return a handle to the new sound ins...

I think from a modders perspective, Drakimor summed it up pretty well... We want modular control over the aspects the game already handles and fill in the remaining gaps with some lua. An electricity consuming train wagon assembly machine that beeps when it's done? Sure thing. { type = "modding...

Redoing all the entities is a bit much asked for but some kind of general purpose/highly customizable entity specifically for modding would open the door to so many possibilities. It would be so great and probably even give me joy in modding the game again. And no one expects the same performance as...

After your reply that it wasn't possible I said "figures if it (vehicles with no tank controls) was possible/that easy to do, there would be mods making use of it by now". Oh I think it's totally possible. But I can't see many mods where it would make sense. And you have to ask if the ben...

I meant a platform that controls just like the player but is faster and has no collision. Be that a helicopter, a hoverboard, a jetpack, an UFO, or whatever. Basically, a vehicle you can just enter and never get out of since it's a straight upgrade to player movement rather than those clumsy tank c...

This was suggested before, and I thought about it, but I'm not sure how it would work out in combination with the existing vehicle physics. Probably means creating a new movement system from scratch. And I imagine it would complicate simple tasks like coming to a halt a lot. Oh that "coming to...

Would it be possible to have an option without tank controls? Helicopters can fly sideways no problem. This was suggested before, and I thought about it, but I'm not sure how it would work out in combination with the existing vehicle physics. Probably means creating a new movement system from scrat...

Sn1gger wrote:Hi,

I've just updated to 0.16.37 and the helicopter mod seems to have been broken a bit. The rotors are drawing beneath the chopper and it doesn't draw as smooth anymore?

Check out the latest release

Your helicopter is really amazing! The controling system can almost reach the complexity of vanilla train controling system. Can you extends your framework to ships like those in https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ships_extended? These vehicles works pretty simlar: drive directly, travel from one site t...

posila wrote:On all sprites used in GUI, you should use

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priority = "extra-high-no-scale"

Thanks for the tip!