So it could be possible to layer a lot of small sprites next to each other to create ilusion of one big sprite? Is it possible to do he same with picture property of entity like this? picture = { {filename, x, y, width, height, shift, ...}, {sprite two}, {sprite three}, {sprite four}, .... },

Is it possible to generate sprites using script on game load and still use it in prototypes?

I'm pretty sure it's not possible, just tought of asking before completely rejecting this idea.

I was looking for ways to place entity created from different entities. And it struck me that rails already implement this. Curve rail entity prototype has entity placeable_by = {item='rail', count=4} Can this be used to place different entity (which doesn't have recipe) using robots (robots would p...

I'm making merging chests mod and run into problems with ghost entities. Blueprint can contain entities that I create only via script (merged chests). To create them I need to replace them with steel chests and merge them by script when all are placed. The problem is that doing so I lose information...

I got into problem with my Merging Chests mod because factorio calculates distance to circuit connection distance to center of entity insead of connection points. If connection point are far away from entity center the connected wire is really long to connect. And if you try to connect to connection...

Thank you very much for combinators setting. In the end I managed to make the circuit network that worked and it was more compact than your first solution with advantage that it could take any type of item instead of preset ones. I will copy your advanced design and work on making it work with any t...

Multiplexer is nice and so far have trouble replicating it (logic selecting one belt from two). Can you post some infor on how to set combinators? Also multiplexer is useless without demultiplexer. But using splitter I don't know how are you going to do it. Splitter from 2 to 1 lane has not used lan...

Oh I just now realized I can create two entities on top of each other. So I don't have to destroy old entities before placing new one so with set_stack() everything is working.

Thank a lot to everybody who helped. I will post resulting mod in a minute (Merging Chests).

local copy = table.deepcopy( tbl ) If table.deepcopy isn't defined, you might need to `require "util"` (although I'm pretty sure util lib is included as standard since factorio 0.13) Unfortunatly it doesn't work. Even when I do deep copy, when entity holding inventory is destroyed, underl...

#1 get_contents() → dictionary string → uint Get counts of all items in this inventory. Return value The counts, indexed by item names. simple item to item inventory transfer inv_to_transfer = inv1.get_contents() for name, count in pairs(inv_to_transfer) do local notinserted = count - inv2.insert({...

Is it possible to move items from one inventory and then insert them into other inventory using mods? Using Factorio API I can get all items in inventory as LuaItemStack using [] access operator of LuaInventory. Problem is inserting them into different inventory because LuaInventory.insert() takes S...

I'm using Angel's Refining version 0.3.0 and on startup i get error: "Error in assignID, resource-category with name "angels-fissure" does not exists. And when I remove require("prototypes.buildings.thermal-extractor") new error saying that subgroup "angels-ores" i...

When holding deconstruction planner in map view you can still select area to be deconstructed. Red rectangle isn't drawn, even list of soon-to-be deconstructed items isn't visible.

Desotryed half of my factory when tried move map when holding deconstruction planner.

That makes sense. I thought it allows another train enter loop sooner, but first train needs to clear entire loop to allow second one in.

I'm using blueprints to build this juction. http://imgur.com/ru0PXUn When rail signals are placed before rails (because I place signals into storage chest before rails) some of rail signals don't property update (blinking green-yellow-red). This happens only when blueprint have signal right before j...

I'm using bobores_0.13.1. When using UnsortedGemOre recipe gives one of each ore per recipe because recipe is loaded before setting of probabilities.

In bobores_0.13.1/data.lua call should be after setting of gem probabilities (ratios).

This mod doesn't seem to work on my existing save. Do I need to generate new map to be able to travel to different surfaces? Or execute some command that creates different surfaces? Also describing process of teleporting between surfaces would be nice. From scripts it whould seems the player only ne...