Does Platinum really have no use whatsoever in Seablock? That seems kind of... strange?

It would be great if the player entity prototype supported something like the max_distance_of_nearby_sector_revealed property - or, even better, if this was modifiable on the LuaEntity at runtime.

Increasing the player's passive radar distance via event hooks is easy - decreasing it, however, seems ...

I mean, sure. On the other hand, power_output = max(power_output, 0) isn't exactly a MENSA brain teaser

Yeah, I think "give me a can_build LUA delegate" isn't going to happen, for exactly the reason you mentioned: having a 10,000 entity blueprint on the cursor and moving it around the map.

However, simply having a blacklist dictionary for "entities that can't be built on this surface" would be much ...

I mean, it's perfectly fine that this directly affects solar panels - I want to make the underground extremely dark, which should also naturally make solar panels next-to-useless. I don't want placing solar panels underground to be a viable source of energy

So that sounds just fine to me!

Currently, the minimum darkness of a surface is hard-coded to be 85% at the deepest part of the night, calculated by time-of-day.

I am writing a mod that implements underground surfaces, and thus I would like to be able to force significantly deeper darkness.

If the override value is simply "How ...

I could, but that seems like a fairly frivolous use of collision masks.

Checking an entity name vs. a surface-level table of banned entities during the can_build check will be MUCH cheaper than many of the other checks that already need to be performed (theoretically skipping checks against ...

It would be fantastic to have a simple way to ban certain entities from being built on certain surfaces. Either a runtime-modifiable dictionary or a property that can be set on a surface when it's created. Either would be fine.

Maybe there's already a way to do this - something to do with defines ...

I expected a "not likely" reply, so I've been formulating a backup plan that's similar to what you're describing

Thank you for taking the time to reply, nonetheless!

So on further reading, there already is a "renderlayer" property but it's only customizeable for decoratives.

So, I guess what I'm really asking for is:

1) Moddable Render Layer for resource entities
2) API call to hide everything in a given render layer

Thank you!

Hello,

I am working on a mod that implements different layers of resources (e.g. shallow/mid/deep ore mining.)

I would like to be able to offer the player a way to switch between viewing different "depths" of ore deposits so that the screen isn't too cluttered at any given time, which means I need ...