Hi, I'm working on an electric interface for my turret energy shields and I want them to loose their energy more quickly, when there is no energy available on the network. It seems like there is no api to see how much energy the entity actually drains. When I use is_connected_to_electric_network(), ...

feels like you are keeping all those cool features from us...
release 0.17 already

The smoke-with-trigger prototype is what i was looking for
thank you everyone!

I think there should be a property to make animations play properly though.

And the prototypes should be documented better, they are the hardest part about modding.

i already tried the type "simple-entity", it also starts the animation at a random frame. the "random_animation_offset = false" flag you used has no effect on any of the prototypes, i couldn't find it anywhere in the game's vanilla entities either, where did you get this from? it...

When using the trivial-smoke prototype for, lets say an energy shield with an animation, the animation starts playing at a random frame so it won't make a perfect loop.
I tried using a dummy with the unit-spawner prototype, but I can't get the render layer higher than the turret-gun with that one.

Hi, I made some enhancements for the wave defense scenario (mod called wave defense unlimited) and now I'm adding the wave defense mode to freeplay, but there are a few things I can't really find good solutions for. 1. You might know there is a "satellite round", where biters spawn continu...

in control.lua, line 764, in the function script.on_event(defines.events.on_entity_renamed, you wrote: if event.entity.type == "train-stop" then... which causes issues with other mods, especially the "personal teleporter" mod. for that mod, it would be enough to change the line t...

It seems to be incompatible with logistic train network...

why is the unstack stone-bricks recipe in the logistics category?

okay so ritegs don't loose power when attacked looks good though i still think its too expensive except maybe when you use it for outposts that are in danger of loosing their power because creeps destroy your power poles... or other special use cases i made mine cost 60 u238.. but it's your choice. ...

i don't know why 150x66.5 equals 597 kW but that's the number i found out by trial and error.
when you place the thing, it looses it's first health point after ~10 seconds.

edit: 10000 is the energy produced per tick
with that in mind, 66.66666... or 200/3 should be the most exact value.

i made a version for myself that stores the remaining energy in the health, in a pretty simple way.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/og3e48oy7qbx9 ... .lua?raw=1
lines 98-103
of course i also added the flag "not-repairable" to the entity prototype

Ah now i see that it works :) was expecting a higher output though. Do you already have an idea to prevent people from picking them up and placing them again? Maybe you could make them unrepairable and loose health? One more thing: in reality, those things use Pu-238, so maybe it would be nice if yo...

I don't think it works. It constantly generates 600 kW...

i hope the beams will be bright at night, unlike that mod

i already set minimum-latency-in-multiplayer=2 on both computers but it doesn't help it's impossible to drive a car like this... running factorio 0.16.28 server browser shows 0 ms latency, using wired connections. computer performance is not an issue either... on a new map without mods it sometimes ...

And this is the fallout cloud code if you're using the mushroom cloud mod fallout_cloud = { type = "smoke-with-trigger", name = "fallout-cloud", flags = {"not-on-map"}, show_when_smoke_off = true, animation = { filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/cloud/cloud-45-fr...

This is a great idea.
It would add support for various controlling assists
- PavementDriveAssist could accelerate cars again when passing a speedlimit derestriction sign.
- I could make a mod that lets you control vehicles like the player character
and probably many more.

- add combinators with enhanced logic like a processor. possibly something like the mod factorissimo with combinators can you describe an example, what you missing? optimal would be if you can place a computer or processor that you can put combinators into and configure and wire it up, so you have ...

sorted by priority: - add more wire colors - add combinators with enhanced logic like a processor. possibly something like the mod factorissimo with combinators - add combinator lights with at least 2 logics - add "any color" to the any signals - make this mod obsolete: https://mods.factor...