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I'm looking at making a Logistics mod, and was wondering if there were any of these floating around, or could be made.

Robo-Chest:
Basically a box with a port on top. a 2x2 micro-robo port, has the hatch on the top for Robots to enter.

Logistic zone expander:
Basically, an antenna array. A 2x2 tower-like structure with antennas, and a single charge point (Because aparantly the one thing you can't stop a roboport from doing is allowing robots to queue for recharge.)

Small Robo-charge dock:
Small 2x2 structure with 4 drone charging points.

Large Robo-charge dock:
A 3x3 structure with 9 charging points.

The RoboCharge Mod already adds a little station that has a smaller radius and 4 recharge points.

SuperSandro2000 wrote:The RoboCharge Mod already adds a little station that has a smaller radius and 4 recharge points.

I know of this mod, I didn't want to use it without permission though.

This can possibly work for the LZE, maybe a little to high - needs tested ingame.

it does look a little high, high is fine, I'll try it out later.
Though it would be better with the whole shadow visible.

I removed the shadow and tested it, it does the job nicely, thanks. I can fix the shadow later in an art program, or wait for a full shadow version.
Also, I peiced together a large chest with the roboport door on top to use as a robo-chest. I can link screenshots later.

Here we go, screenshot of me using it in game.


As you can see, I fixed the shadow.

The plan was 2x2 but I made it 1x1 with this graphic.

Looks pretty good, doesn't it?


And here is the Robochest I made too.

bobingabout wrote:Here we go, screenshot of me using it in game.
As you can see, I fixed the shadow.
The plan was 2x2 but I made it 1x1 with this graphic.
Looks pretty good, doesn't it?

- fixing Shadows by you is good, so i can make shadowless versions -> easier
- 1x1 is maybe better (i have some version tested to get the pylon in sight and lower, but i think i doesn't work - the high-platform is for reuse for the other charge-docks)
- yes, looks nice !

so, only the Small- and Large- Charge Dock - ToDo.

YuokiTani wrote: - fixing Shadows by you is good, so i can make shadowless versions -> easier

Only really works if it looks similar when you rotate it almost 90 degrees, that's all I did here, Rotate 100 degrees clockwise, set a -100% brightness, then make it transparant.

YuokiTani wrote:the high-platform is for reuse for the other charge-docks)

that works for me.

YuokiTani wrote:so, only the Small- and Large- Charge Dock - ToDo.

Yup!

I was thinking of adding a T2 and T3, maybe T4 version too... I was thinking perhaps different coloured lights on the charge port, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow... what do you think?

after some time ^^ i think i got the small charger, but needs your hands to fit in game - maybe i need to rescale


makeing stages/tiers with coloring is possible (a cheap and easy way - but in this pixel-resolution perhaps the best)

variant A looks better, but i think B is easier to integrate.
at this pc, colors look different as i designed at other pc. maybe some color-correction is also required.

designed to be the 9x Charger


*edit
i didn't notice that you don't need this gfx anymore.

I should have checked back here earlier, it looks like you put a lot of effort into this.

The ones I released in the mod for the charging port were more of a temporary solution, so I could get the mod released. I wouldn't mind using some of these newer ones in my mod. the 3x3 version does look a fair bit different from the other style though. I'm not sure if I'd want to use that, or stick with something closer to the 2x2 and zone expander.

for gathering more experience and testing around i improved this model a little bit.

looks now ...


the bigger render shows some unfinished and not perfect parts
-> bigger pic <-

That actually looks pretty amazing.