Moving the camera position is basically impossible. Cutscenes is one option, maybe there's some other hacky solution I hadn't considered... A larger problem is that you can't read the player's cursor position. Or at least, you can, but only in response to a CustomInput (i.e. when the player clicks o...

+1
Picker dollies and Space Exploration both use teleportation and are both very common. It would be nice not to have to rely on implementing custom events, etc.

Awesome!

"Highlights from 2023-02-05 until 2023-01-30" I think your start and end dates are wrong

Are you aware of the "only-in-cursor" flag on item prototypes? https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/ItemPrototypeFlags#%22only-in-cursor%22 Although personally I'd like `cursor_stack_temporary` write for all items, as I currently attempt to implement a similar thing for the wires in Wire Shortc...

I guess the current API does support it in some way as someone (about a month ago now at time of post) has made such a mod now! This makes me quite happy and here is the link to the mod in question for anyone else who is interested. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/CustomColor Indeed, it isn't actuall...

I had learned to name the migration files as "mod-name_version", where version matched the mod version it's introduced with. I don’t believe this solution always works correctly, since 1.2.30 will sort before 1.2.4. Using dates is the best method. Except that there are different date form...

I don't remember where I learned it, and I don't know if this is the "correct" way or if it's inconsequential, but I had learned to name the migration files as "mod-name_version", where version matched the mod version it's introduced with. As such, as DaveMcW said, I believe it ...

Your underground belt is backwards

I had a similar problem like you. While the example at https://factoriolib.github.io/flib/examples/dictionary.lua.html worked in single player it caused an instant de-sync in multi-player. I managed to adapt the demo code so it works and does not de-sync. The only changes I had to make were: Change...

BoogerPoo2002 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:05 pm

Is there a way to fire weapons from vehicles without a player character?

Yes, in editor mode you can hover your mouse over a vehicle, press Enter, and you'll be driving the vehicles.

aka13 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:29 am

"Certain modpack"
Loaders in 1.2/dlc confirmed?
Make belts viable for megabases again!

He said on discord that the modpack was SE+K2.

It means that after firing a rocket and automatically switching selected weapon to the next rocket, the cooldown will already be half-done. So as long as at least 2 of the 4 spidertron rocket launchers have ammo, then it will launch them twice as fast as it would otherwise, yes. Lex's aircraft gunsh...

As of today, my email notifications seem to have broken HTML in them... see one from 3 days ago, and one from today: Hello Xorimuth, You have a new notification on the Factorio Mod Portal. New reply in Two small suggestions by Vodith. You can see all your notifications, as well as disable them, on t...

Deadlock989 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:27 pm

When did native loaders pulling from cargo wagons become a thing?

In this version

I presume "containers" in this context means "everything except trains", but I haven't checked.

As a workaround for this issue, would adding a 'drag_map' checkbox to the permissions list be feasible? Then I could disable it only whilst holding a wire/cable. Currently dragging is allowed even when all permissions are disabled.

In vanilla, default settings, you cannot use wires/cables in map view near the player because it conflicts with the click-to-drag feature. If you rebind the 'drag map' keybind to anything other than left-click, you can now use wires/cables in map view. This becomes particularly apparent with my mod ...

In my mod (Wire Shortcut X) I want to be able the read whether the player has a drag target (i.e. is dragging a wire/cable from an entity). Personally I don't care what it is, just whether or not it exists. But it should probably return the LuaEntity. I also don't need to be able to write it, since ...

I think the strange-looking width is caused by the fuel tab (lots of fuel slots, maybe a pollution efficiency multiplier as well), and is expected behaviour. The strangeness around the bottom is a base game bug happening because of the Train Groups relative GUI at the top: https://forums.factorio.co...

https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaItemStack.html#LuaItemStack.set_stack and similar don't say that they can raise on_player_cursor_stack_changed (and presumably on_player_main_inventory_changed, on_player_gun_inventory_changed, maybe more). From testing it appears that they aren't raised immedi...

I'm a fan of https://mods.factorio.com/mod/extra-sto ... minibuffer personally. Pipes have such low capacity that I can imagine their content fluctuating quite a bit, which would make it a lot less useful for taking readings for the circuit network.