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by wrsomsky
Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:11 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Route-Override Train Mode
Replies: 0
Views: 834

Route-Override Train Mode

TL;DR
Add a route-override button to the train UI to auto-route a train to an arbitrary station and then drop to manual mode.

What ?
Unless I've missed something: We have manual train mode, where you control the moment-to-moment driving of a train. We have automatic train mode, where you set up ...
by wrsomsky
Mon Jun 26, 2017 6:23 pm
Forum: Modding discussion
Topic: Invoking a Lua command on startup?
Replies: 6
Views: 3130

Re: Invoking a Lua command on startup?

Hmm... Killing the process is a bit heavy-handed, but should be workable, assuming the killed Factorio doesn't leave "droppings" about...
by wrsomsky
Fri Jun 23, 2017 8:32 pm
Forum: Modding discussion
Topic: Invoking a Lua command on startup?
Replies: 6
Views: 3130

Re: Invoking a Lua command on startup?

I was able to use on_tick to do a screenshot on startup. But what would be nice now, is a way to *end* the game at that point and either load the next save to be "screenshotted" or exit factorio completely to let a new instance be started for the next save.
by wrsomsky
Mon Jun 19, 2017 10:15 pm
Forum: Modding discussion
Topic: Invoking a Lua command on startup?
Replies: 6
Views: 3130

Invoking a Lua command on startup?

I'm looking to put together a tool to make a large scale segmented "screenshot" directly from one or more save files, batch-style. I've seen the mods/scripts that will generate such things, but the conventional way to invoke them is to be playing the game and then enter a command / push a button ...

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