Another question:
Is it possible to tell the beacon entity to render spilled items over it instead of under it?


Ok i managed to solve this problem by using animation_list with a single layer / render_layer instead of base_picture. So instead of:

render_layer = "floor-mechanics",
base ...

Unfortunately the only way to know when they're made from blueprints is if the entity in the blueprint had some... Not sure where that is.

I think my solution (which i picked up from some other factorio discussion) is kind of easier, maybe less robust:
I simply check the positon of the becaon ...

I managed to solve the problem with proxies, thanks to https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=102415

The first version of my mod that i would describe as "working" can now be tested :D

ocs_0.1.0.zip

Note:
It is only very roughly balanced to give you similar/slightly lower production ...

curiosity wrote: Sun May 15, 2022 7:18 am You can partially work around this by doing your stuff when the item proxy is destroyed.

Thanks so much, works perfectly (as far as i can tell)!
I have uploaded the first version of my mod in the thread linked above.

Hello,
i am currently creating a new mod that changes beacons to work more like the "adjacency" feature from Supreme Commander:
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=101187

Since beacons cannot be made to work like adjancency natively, i had to implement their behaviour myself. So i am ...

Thanks!
Sadly there is no event that fires when robots change the beacon inventory.

I need help:

What is the event that triggers when robots place modules into a beacon?
I don't think this mod is possible (if i want to support blueprints) if such an event does not exist. Or i would have to constantly scan all my beacons for changes due to robots inserting, removing or upgrading ...

Improved sprite:

Hello,

im looking for a 3D module of basically any module ( no need to be textured or have materials! ), because i am working on a mod ( https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=101187&p=567650#p567650 ) that replaces beacons with 1x1 walkable tiles.
- I want to give the entities (which ...

I managed to get my first actual 3D render ingame:
ocs_concept_art_3.png

Now i just need to make the model a lot better, add connection light animations (i have given up on "arm/cable connnections") and thinking about how i can get it to tile better.

If anybody has a design idea, they would be ...

I think the best way would be to have an animation that does something, but not connecting directly to the machine.

For example:
A connector arm putting some cables into the floor towards the directon of the machine like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Katharsas/Overclocking-Stations-OCS/master ...

Ok, i think i have implemented pretty much all event handlers for player actions, and it seems to work fine!
Bots/blueprints are still missing but i think that will not be a big problem and EEI i will implement later.

My next priortiy is graphics, yay!

Originally i had the idea, that the OCS ...

- I personally wouldn't use objects as table keys like that. Use the unit number instead, yes.



This is very interesting. I tried using objects as table keys, so that a table with two entities looks like this in debugger:

{ [<LuaEntity>]=true, [<LuaEntity>]=true, }


And then i easily check ...

I just disabled box shadows, gives me about 7 more FPS (Firefox) when scrolling (but its still above 150fps average on an i7 7700k and GTX 1060), but more importantly it just feels smoother.

With original page, it sometimes stutters/hitches when you start scrolling. With the shadows disables ...

Thats awesome, thanks!

collision_box works after i used rounding. For some reason, the collision_box of an assembling machine is slightly different during control.lua compared to data-updates.lua (starting at around 3rd decimal, so its not just normal float inaccuracy)^^

Thanks!

Another question:
Is it performant and generally "ok" to use Entity object references as keys in a lua table? Or should i use unit_number instead? Basically

table[entity] = { ... }
-- vs
table[entity.unit_number] = { ... }


I think both would work for my code, but there might be ...

Well yeah it seems to be managable. I want to support mods so i just default to generate all furnace sizes, so i get 5 sizes total for vanilla. Will be a bunch more with B&A but its still fine.

One thing though:
I generate my blueprint names like this:
ocs-helper-{{-1'5, -1'5}, {1'5, 1'5 ...

Thanks a lot!

Hmm that would mean that i have to generate all the different sizes to make it same size as crafting machine so it is powered when crafting machine is, i kinda wanted to avoid that because i am a little bit afraid that it is bad for load times or UPS, but i am probably wrong and it ...

Thanks!

Another question that really troubles me a lot right now:

Everything works out fine with the helper object so far, except that my helper objects does not draw any energy. I thought this was fine, but it means that neither my Overclocking Station nor my crafting machine need to be powered ...

Ok thanks a lot!
I already have more questions! xD

1.)
I can set a LuaEntity to be indestructable during runtime:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaEntity.html#LuaEntity.destructible

But it seems i cannot make my prototype indestructible from the beginning? There seems to be no attribute for ...