I'm not sure if this is a bug or working as intended, but while calling find_non_colliding_position() for a player entity it just returned the given position over water as though it wasn't colliding with it.


EDIT: Ignore me, not waiting for chunk gen.

Here ya go.

Should work in multiplayer and work fine with other mods that mess with the main inventory (from my end of things at least).

There's just a main inventory change event, so just hooking into that made it easy. Kept it at just #types.

You may be looking for types +1, btw, not sure if you can even pick an item up if your inventory is full.

The only action that factorio let's modders do is create a file in a set directory. As for logging the information, we can't access who killed an entity until 0.15.

I think OP wants the names before being localized. If so, run the following in the ingame console and look for "item_names.txt" in [factorio install]/script-output /c for name, _ in pairs(game.item_prototypes) do; game.write_file("item_names.txt", name.."\n", true); end

Just wondering, but why? Sounds like it would just make mining ore much more tedious because you could only mine around the edges

It seems factorio performance behaves similar, but the effects are neglectably small. For Inventory Sensor 1.1.3 i changed every possible for pairs to for i, #table and table.insert to table[#table+1] performance only went up by 0.06 UPS at best on my test map and oddly enough stayed exactly the sa...

@Mooncat, couldn't you just use LuaEntity.die() and clean up any Loot at the position within a small time frame? If the entity gives loot then add it's position (+/- a small amount) to a table for deletion.

Or even no big deal for the loot, as this mod isn't really for normal play, correct?

I wonder, could something like custom-input be used here? You register the event prototype with the entity that keeps an eye out for [array of entities] that come within range. The logic behind the gate could be abstracted out. Is binding specific events to an entity prototype possible? If so, there...

There still isn't any proper way to handle players clicking on an entity to fire an event (unless they changed recently). I think your best bet is to make a custom keyboard shortcut that checks the player's selected entity for your entity and handle the GUI from there. (although I believe some peopl...

aubergine18 wrote:Thanks for the infos. Looks like I won't be able to create character specific footstep sound.

You can swap a players character with a new one with different sounds. Depends on how often you need to do this.

I think you need to find "assembler3pipepictures()" and "pipecoverspictures()" and make your own replacements. It's been a while since I touched fluid boxes though. If you check my Avatars mod (in my signature, though check the github because I haven't touched the thread in a whi...

I don't think it's been brought up yet, but support for optional settings would be good too. Plenty of mods have optional dependencies and may have different settings in different situations. Oh, and can we somehow have an array as a setting? Like a multiple selection box (I guess it could be done w...

Adil wrote:Actually it seems easier to make assembler to look like spawner and create units around it with lua.

Or make an extra entity under the assembler that is a spawner (I have to imagine that the spawning logic is better than what a mod can do easily)

Do you want to just post the whole mod so someone can flip through it then (or at least the prototypes)? That's probably better than just posting snippets

You can get a substring btw, it's string.sub() Only if you know the length of the numeric portion of the string... which could be different if some other mod already changed the value to bigger/smaller number. string.sub(string, 1, (#string - 2)) You had the right idea originally, just wrong syntax

You can get a substring btw, it's string.sub()

The base game is getting "loader" belts that do this sort of thing. There's a mod that enables the hidden entities: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/kij336/add-loader Pretty sure that loaders were scrapped from the game (replaced by stack inserters), but they included what they had on them ...

I'm pretty sure that the Lua documentation is also included in the game files, so you wouldn't have to go put to the site to parse the info

It's been suggested before, but it's not really viable. I believe the only ways to handle it are to either teleport the player constantly (would be ugly and laggy), or to turn off the belt