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Posted: **Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:51 am**

While experimenting around with an assemblers fluidbox it broke in a weird way. (thread)

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local f = data.raw["assembling-machine"]["assembling-machine-3"].fluid_boxes

f[1]. pipe_connections = {
  { type="input-output", position = {0, -2} },
  { type="input-output", position = {0,  2} },
  }
f[1]. base_area = 1
f[1]. height = 0
f[1]. base_level = 0

I guess height=0 is causing division by 0 somewhere?
I've attached the mod and a demonstration savegame (place a pipe to make it happen) in case needed.

testmod-assembler-fluid-sharing_0.0.0.zip: (1022 Bytes) Downloaded 134 times

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Posted: **Mon Feb 12, 2018 3:30 pm**

Fluidboxes are very strangely defined. Height Influences the volume, since the volume is calculated like this:
double getVolume() const { return 100 * this->baseArea * this->height; }
When the volume is set by an assembling machine, for example, it's done like this:
void setVolume(double volume) { this->baseArea = volume / (this->height * 100); }

So you can't have a height of 0 since it will mean a fluidbox with size 0.

I updated the value checking in the next version so 0 values are not allowed.

Posted: **Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:28 pm**

Twinsen wrote: double getVolume() const { return 100 * this->baseArea * this->height; }

Twinsen wrote: void setVolume(double volume) { this->baseArea = volume / (this->height * 100); }

I don't know if you use double for all liquid calculations but if you do, maybe you could increase performance a little by using float instead? On modern CPUs the speed of the Instructions should basically be the same, but maybe the reduced memory footprint could be helpful (more data can fit into the caches/be prefetched/whatever). Of course only if the precision still is sufficient, but I hope it would be ok.

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