While I can guess what those two are supposed to mean, min_temperature_gradient completely baffles me.

Side Note: I just remembered a mod called "Landfill Painting" that has rotatable landfill. Rotating gives different variations of landfill. I should look how they did that since normally landfill (tiles) isn't rotatable in the UI. Maybe they same would work for a chest? For me the the GUI...

Everything you just described is the concept of "variation" in Factorio which we already have for most things. Direction is completely unrelated and it seems like what you want is to highjack direction to mean variation on a bunch of entities where direction makes no sense. Trees have var...

Letting a mod change this through some Lua API would be trivial.. but nobody has asked for it because it's not technically a direction on the entity. It's just an 8-bit unsigned number that determines which sprite variation is used. I wonder, if people knew that having a script-controlled sprite va...

Right now it says: Amount of emissions created (positive number) or cleaned (negative number) every second by the entity. This is passive, and it is independent concept of the emissions of machines, these are created actively depending on the power consumption. Currently used just for trees. The wo...

A lot of game developers are working a decade or two behind modern programming practices, especially in C++. So it might well be that Rseding91 doesn't know about dependency injection or that's something not widely known (and therefore not welcome) at wube. Pretty sure dependency injection is as ol...

Sorry if I come across snarky. You're doing a great game. I'm just sometimes amazed at some of the problems when they are well known programming issues with established solutions. It triggers the "I've learned about how not do this and that sounds exactly how this was done" syndrom. The d...

The game will reuse an already loaded asset if there are multiple references to it, so it's less inefficient than it may seem. The only duplication will be the in the structure of the prototype.

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Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:37 pm

Did you ever figure that out? Otherwise, I'm going to have to use a few different tracking methods similar to the ones mentioned in an earlier post.

on_entity_destroyed

You could simulate it statistically. For electronic components like the canonical modules it may even be more believable.

or could you please suggest/provide an alternative way to implement the same mod functionality through other API means? From what I can tell looking at the mod page, blueprint notes is the only problematic feature. And that already exists in base game as blueprint description (although it doesn't s...

Because biters have the same mask as the player and collide with the pipes, and the way I'm doing it makes them unable to pass through the gaps even though the player can. It would make pipes unable to be used as early game walls, which some people like doing. Also, the version I'm making has a mod...

I'm currently writing Squeak Through 2 from scratch, as the original mod hasn't been updated since it's 1.1 version bump and the mod creator is MIA. `pipe` and `pipe-to-ground` entities are causing a bit of trouble, because of the 0.2 border added to the bounding box when the FluidBox receives a ne...

With events as proposed, I'd imagine it would be simple to implement and go along nicely with the other similar features in the engine. In the context of the problem you are trying to solve, it's a suboptimal solution. You have to set up caches that you need to keep updated, handle events and so on...

What if you pass it a nonexistent interface name? Does it error or return nil, or maybe do something else? What about a nonexistent function name?

Why is this better than adding a function like this? Assuming call errors when given a nonexistent interface/function name instead of doing something similar already.

Most if not all of them can be found in the prototype docs.

However, i don't think mods can communicate with each other in the data stage, only in the control stage. That's because there is no barrier in data stage. All mods are mashed together into the same Lua state. The docs tell you this, by the way. That's why you are able to call table.deepcopy etc. w...

Every type is like that.

What is textfield decoration? Additional text around the value of the textfield. Most prominently visible in the train GUI and Sounds and Interface game settings. The most practical way to do this, in my opinion, would be to let the user specify a LocalisedString. Then, when it's time to display tex...