Oh, it seems you spent lot of time on this, I am sorry 🙈 Expectation: Rendering's color to behave like tint, and the default blendmode to be: normal . Rendering's color behaves the same as tint does. This is clear that *just* changing the color results in an increase in opacity, the more white the c...

Some specific things (like smoke) test for transparency level being very close to being completely transparent, but general sprite drawing doesn't. I don't think machines that have working visualizations will generate that many sprites for it to matter.

Fixed/changed for 1.1.73

It's not a bug. So I am moving it back to ideas and suggestions. People forget they chose some specific version and then report bugs about the game not updating. Also if you want to stay on a specific version, I suggest you download it from the website as older builds get deleted sooner or later (ex...

Some programmer tried to be smart (me) and thought nobody will need to tint anything by {0,0,0,0}, because that would make it invisible, therefore the sprite wouldn't need to be there in the first place. So I used 0,0,0,0 as signal value, to indicate the value was not set in the prototype and we sho...

It only happens with Video memory usage set to something lower than All, so as a workaround, until it is fixed, ou can change the setting in the graphics options (and restart the game)

Now I hope that the game not only performs better - and have a much smaller energy footprint, but also let me build bigger factories before hitting the RAM limit. When it does, it is still playable, however it become a lot slower and creates a huge wear on the internal SSD. I know that the most via...

Thanks - now its time to raise Factorio to the iPad (with keyboard) - is it? Last time I had to deal with releasing an app on the App Store, it was not allowed to run scripts downloaded from the Internet. If they still have this rule, that would mean no mods like on Switch, and it could also cause ...

duskwuff wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 19, 2022 6:44 pm

a WASM Factorio would still be less resource-constrained than the Switch port (for example)

True

PowerOnly wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 16, 2022 2:21 am

I have an account through both steam and the Factorio website. Is there a means of installing on Nintendo Switch without having to purchase the game again?

Unfortunatelly, PC purchase doesn't give you access to Nintendo Switch version.

... doing such boring ... I don't want to do boring stuff :D But if anyone on the team is interested in making this work, they can put time towards it if they want to. But I wouldn't expect it to happen anytime soon or possibly ever :( Also I was interested in performance of WebAssembly, and it's h...

I'm not sure I understand what you want to know here. In the Factorio graphics settings "Sprite Resolution" says "Normal". I can change it to high, but when I exit and re-launch the game it is back to "Normal" again. I just wanted you to the button "circled" ...

Either ways, you have to wait. I agree. The browser wouldn't magically download 1.5 GB of assets faster than the ZIP file, so you'd have to wait for the browser hosted version too :D Anyway, we use SDL but are not completely built on top of SDL. Meaning, we'd have to port at least rendering to WebG...

Blay wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 14, 2022 9:06 pm

Because being able to play factorio everywhere without installing anything would be cool!

You can already do that by downloadin ZIP package instead of installer.

On PC with 8 GB RAM and 2 GB VRAM it defaults to high res (and I believe GeForce NOW machines have better specs than that). What does the setting change to if you reset graphics options to default? That will show what it defaulted to. I doubt their support person will have access to do anything abou...

The HW is good enough for the game to default to high-res sprites. When I investigated it, I found out, Nvidia forces it to normal in our config.ini

When are you pushing the 1.1.70 update to the switch so that we can actually use the cross platform capabilities without having to tech non computer literate people how to downgrade there version of factorion on pc. We were trying to have matching stable version on PC on Switch release date, but I ...

The more often, the more feedback. It’s a lot of extra work to handle this feedback, but it’s worth it. I feel scarred for life from responses to some changes ... 0.17 oil change, color correction pass on sprites and removal of pick axe come to my mind immediatelly. But there was more, I think. The...

Unfortunatelly, drawing of the overlay is handled in special way and exploits the fact that it is drawn over all normal obejcts, mainly to optimize rendering of the dark-background outline. The outlines are also rendered first, before the icons are, so that it doesn't occlude other icons that might ...

Also consider registering UDP port 34197 for Factorio, since that's the same form. It's similarly bad practice to use an unregistered port by default (really, modern software should be using dynamic ports until configured otherwise, with SRV/SVCB records if you don't want to make people specify por...