This is a broader solution to the filter selection problem than the Each option for the stack size idea that I proposed, and therefore a better one. Thank you DaveMcW!

tsiebecker wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:04 am

You can, but not with RHD. Take mmmPI's layout, switch it to LHD, and you get full signalling.

Is there an analysis of how this compares with an ordinary LHD roundabout without the extra cross-tracks throught the middle of the circle?

It looks like this might answer my question. And the answer would be "No", but here are a whole bunch of hacks to get around it. I'll see if there's a way that works for what I want to do. But if anybody else has any better ideas or knows differently, I'd really appreciate knowing. Accessi...

How do I discover what other power poles a ghost pole is connected to? It seems like it's very hard get to any but the most superficial information about the entity contained within a ghost.

Ghosts are just another type of Entity so all the standard events should apply. When you build a ghost of electric pole you will get `on_built_entity` event with created_entity pointing to the entity-ghost for which ghost_name=<pole name>. Oh, nifty! Thank you. That definitely solves my problem.

There is an event for when the player (not a bot) builds an entity. Is there a way to detect when a player places a ghost? Not a blueprint, but a single entity ghost. My LD Circuit mod automatically adds circuit wires when the player places a long-distance power pole with a small supply range. I wou...

Making your perimeter a convex hull* is overkill. Just making sure it is a rectangle is simple enough and works with just straight and and maybe corner pieces for your perimeter defense blueprint etc. Making it less rectangular isn't going to save you time or effort since you now get a short defens...

I "Diamond Grid" everything, and my base is always a rectangle so I never lose bots flying over aliens. So for me the spidertron is mostly a better tank, turn off auto fire and fill with nukes and laser defense. I no longer have to do the little dance of jumping out of a tank to let off n...

Just out of curiosity, does biter creep permanently change the landscape? Do the associated decoratives ever fade? Does it permanently change the tiles for some parts of the landscape?

So, exactly as posila said then. So why are you saying "So no, not all mods automatically transfer from 0.18" when you are agreeing? That's confusing. :o :shock: Here is what I've noticed... Almost all mods for 0.18 work perfectly on 1.0 without any changes of any kind whatsoever. No upda...

I posted this on Reddit as well.... You've missed that your FFF blog posts have given invaluable insight into game programming, game development, and optimization techniques. They are a serious contribution to the body of knowledge surrounding these things. I understand and appreciate the effort you...

Looking at the log it looks like bogus memory corruption. I recommend running a memory test: https://www.memtest.org/ I discovered that the memory I was shipped for this machine was much slower than the memory I ordered. I was having the motherboard force the speed higher (thinking it was just mist...

JaJe wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:32 pm

1 Bug, 40,2Mb...interesting

If a change involves a piece of executable code, even a small change can be rippled into a lot of code by the compiler. Additionally, doing binary diffs isn't trivial. So, the size of a download doesn't bear a strong resemblance to the size of a change.

No that does not help showing what is actually happening. I'll put this in pending until someone can show how to reproduce this. I tried using the Hive Mind mod to recreate this. But it just lets you place biter nests. It doesn't let you send out an expansion party. :-/ If there was a way to force ...

I like the new laser sounds a lot better. Lower frequency, and more of a hint of power to them. Thank you very much for that. The sounds repair robots make repairing things are interesting and fun. I don't know if they even made a sound before, but they definitely do now and it's amusing and consist...

Thank you! That definitely fixes the ghost stuck in the hand problem.

It told me I should post the log, so here it is. It has a stack trace at the end.

badtouchatr wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 29, 2020 10:56 pm

who releases new "major features" just 16 days before the supposed "stable 1.0" release? huh? who does that?

The Factorio team is about the only team I've seen where I suspect that kind of thing would be likely to go well.

Think we might have a bug .. Pressing 'Q' to get a ghost item in hand, then pressing 'Q' again will not clear the hand. The ghost item will still stay in hand. I have the same problen, you need to change to item in backpack This currently causes some major issues with the Braver New World mod in th...

Looking at why one mod I use is failing, it's looking like the `collision_mask` field of the 'tile-unknown' global game tile prototype is nil. That's kind of weird. It wasn't the case before this update, and I haven't changed which mods I have installed.