TL;DR
When setting player controller to cutscene, I would like to be able to set the start_position to an entity target, like you can do with waypoints (position or target).


What ?
Currently, the start_position of a cutscene can only be a position, but individual waypoints can have either a ...

TL;DR
Request to let users set GUI scale to more precise values than just 75%, 100%, etc.


What ?
I would really like to set the GUI scale to 80, 85, or 90%. I have a Macbook Pro and with GUI scale at 100% things like the hotbar and alerts can overlap the armor slot/battery display, but at GUI ...

I thought that might be the case Thanks

I've been playing around with cutscenes lately and was wondering what happens when I make a waypoint far beyond the map limit. Today I found out that the game crashes.

steps to reproduce:
1. load or start a new save game
2. run the following command:
game.players["PLAYER_NAME"].set_controller ...

According to the wiki, a cutscene uses the player position to start the cutscene when start_position is not defined:

start_position :: Position (optional): If specified and type is defines.controllers.cutscene, the cutscene will start at this position. If not given the start position will be the ...

Thank you, that was very helpful. I didn't know character color is determined like that. I've set up character/player color syncing for my little cutscene mod now

I forgot to add a log and such.

Upon further testing it appears to only happen on the following save file, but not when I start a new save.
save: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iHuFHFCvEL5hzWuAdsARonxWb8C5vMP1/view?usp=sharing

factorio-current.log:
0.000 2020-10-24 00:18:30; Factorio 1.0.0 ...

When a player controller is set to cutscene, the character color changes to default orange when the camera begins the first pan. Character color is then set back to original color when the cutscene is over and player has control again.

It's nice that character color returns to normal when the ...