I see. Thanks! It's really a pity there's no good official resources on GUIs, so one have to literally dissect other people's mods to figure out things...

Pity. I wanted to make a car with coordinate assignments akin to Locomotive... :) Seems like GUI API is still extremely basic...
Thanks, though.

PS. You've mentioned "open elements besides the original GUI" — do I understand correctly that there is a way to find size and coords of the original UI ...

1. Is it possible to modify existing GUI of, for example, a chest or a car?

2. If not, is there a way to add new GUI elements on top of car GUI?

3. Where are all the GUIs defined? I can't find GUI definition for a locomotive, why isn't it present in LUA code?

@moderator can you, please, move this topic to suggestions forum? Basically:
- implement a render layer that is visible in alt-mode only, or
- implement few render layers that can be toggled by a hotkey, not limited to alt only

I see... are there any libraries or examples how to properly implement UIs?

Is there a way to set the texture/icon for an entity to be shown in alt-mode?
For example, I'd like to have a possibility to mod an entity that would have different textures based on the status of alt-mode: one for "on" and one for "off".

Or a RenderLayer that is shown/hidden based on alt-mode ...

Yeah sure, that could be possible that ...
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Laser_Beam_Turrets
#ohwait
:mrgreen:


Just found this one 5 minutes ago myself, thanks. :) Yet as far as I see, other modders that add their own turrets (like Bob, 5dim, Yuoki, etc.) still base off "base" laser turret ...

Uhm... well... yeah. Like that. Sorry, I feel dumb now. Now if only mod makers would pick that up...

Thanks, though.

TL;DR
Make Lasers to be Lasers, not projectiles. How come lasers shoot some kind of glowing homing (!?!?!?!?) missiles??? Who's sick idea was it in the first place anyway!?

What ?
Change lasers to fire instant-hitting beams, akin to gun turrets. Maybe, just maybe, also add missile turrets that ...

Should be fixed now.

Updated to 0.16, please check if it works.

Pleykorn wrote:Hey could we expect an update for 0.16 please? This mod is really convenient!

Sorry, fell out of the Factorio world for a while.
Sure, I'll update it in the next few days, just need to figure out what needs to be done.

A little update.

• Now it works with 0.15
• Added tiered accus.
• Tier-up rate now x4 instead of x10 (4/16/64/256 in one)
• But costs are lower - x4 items of previous tier + some circuits

Yeah, config wasn't cleaned, thanks. :) Will update probably.
About oil - I also had doubts about it - should I leave it as it was, or just x2/x4/x10 it. Haven't decided yet though.

The one thing is I am sure about, is that 4 piles per resource spawn should be maximum and distance multiplier should ...

moved from [MOD 12.11+] Train Outposts topic to this subforum
-- daniel34

Ok, so I'm back to factorio for a bit, and decided to finish the tweaking of RSO to better fit the idea of infinite resources and remote outposts.
I've "forked" and tweaked RSO version 1.4.7, and the main changes are ...

Great idea. I was also fiddling with RSO once to get the same result (rare patches with small endless resources), and I like what you're doing. There's two thing this mod lacks though - make those patches somewhat smaller, twice at least; and second - add support for mod ores. That's the priority #1 ...

I'd recommend two things:
- infinite resources mod
- modification of size multiplier in config
Should work like what your changes did :)

Oh come ooon, do you think I have not tried it? :P
Nah, that way it's too much resources per spot. Ideal ratio turned out to be exactly 1-2 infinite patches ...

Hi

After our recent discussion on balance I've messed with the RSO code in the 0.11, and ended up changing all the "generate ore" calls into "generate liquid" calls; also changing the ore spawn " size " config to be 1-2. And you know what? That turned out to be a very interesting challenge! You ...

Current size of 20 allows you to fit more than 20 miners on a single iron patch. Growth also should be limited - you don't want to "win the round" in a couple of hours, do you? Go too fast - and it's a one-evening game.

Omg! So if richness is 15k and size is 20 (default starting iron) then amount of iron is somewhere between 420k and 1.1mil? By default!? But that's freaking insane amounts!! You don't even have to leave your base with that for, like, ever! omfg... fshhh….