[MOD 0.2.10] Electric Furnace that actually works

[15Cyndaquil]

I have created a working electric furnace that "smelts" the ores into the plates

the crafting recipe is 1 stone furnace, 9 iron plates, 5 iron gear wheels, and 3 electronic circuits

no bugs yet found

15Cyndaquil's electric furnace mod.zip

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[FreeER]

Hey, not a bad job Two things popped out at me when I tested it out, well three but one is to have a slightly better name
First was looking at the pictures and noticed it was the same as regular furnace, just bigger. I'd suggest at least adding fire/sparks the the animation
Second you didn't correct the collision/selection box (unless you're saying that you can't walk on a shadow

[drs9999]

Nice one!
And now: Custom Textures

[drs9999]

Too slow

Animation would be nice. But there is a small problem with it.

Because it is an assembly building it wont work like the furnace-animation does (only display fire if in use)
I have the same problem with the cokery in the treemod. I finally managed to adjust the production speed and frame-count of the animation so it will display the first picture of the animation (with includes no fire-texture) after a crafting-process BUT if you dont produce enough power the machines is slowed down and messed up the animation.

And I noticed the collision/ selection thingy as well, but there is also a small problem. But because I have problems with it in my mod and dont want to spam your topic with this I will post a reply refering to this in my thread.

[FreeER]

I thought the assemblers displayed their first animation frame when not in use and only played through it when in use? Assuming that, shouldn't it just be slowing it down until one animation loop matched one (slow) recipe completion? Then again I'm horrible at animation myself so if i'm wrong feel free to correct me

[15Cyndaquil]

drs9999 i actually got the inspiration from your cokery in your mod and i would add custom animation and graphics if i was any good at drawing/photo editing programs. Finally i will try to update the collision box tomorrow but no promises.

Also I'm just really glad i got this out b before anyone else got the idea.

[drs9999]

I thought the assemblers displayed their first animation frame when not in use and only played through it when in use?

Nope, sadly not, but is hard to see. Also that is impossible at the moment because different recipes need a different amount of time.

Assuming that, shouldn't it just be slowing it down until one animation loop matched one (slow) recipe completion? Then again I'm horrible at animation myself so if i'm wrong feel free to correct me

Yeah I thought that as well and it makes absolutly sense, but sadly it isnt.
So I can be wrong but I tried to solve fo at least 2 hours, making dummy-animation to see the different frames better and sitting with a stopwatch in front of the notebook

[FreeER]

ah well. Maybe one of these days we'll have someone make an indepth tutorial/explanation on how the animation works (as for the timing, for the electric furnace I believe that both copper and iron smelt at the same rate. but yeah, that would be difficult for crafting recipes)

[ficolas]

drs9999 i actually got the inspiration from your cokery in your mod and i would add custom animation and graphics if i was any good at drawing/photo editing programs. Finally i will try to update the collision box tomorrow but no promises.

Also I'm just really glad i got this out b before anyone else got the idea.

Nope, you didny get this befire anyone got the idea, read all the comments in the other electric furnace mod

[drs9999]

Also funny: If Item A needs X ticks or animation-updates to be processed (what lets say correspond to the animation). So you may think Item B that needs 2*X ticks should work as well.
- Nope
It seems like that it needs X+Y updates for item A and 2*X+Y for item B ( I figured it out at some point and believe that Y was 2 additional animation-updates)

[FreeER]

if y is 2 then it might be that it skips a couple of updates after last frame, would make some sense since the machine would have to reset itself . Just a guess however.

[15Cyndaquil]

Nope, you didny get this befire anyone got the idea, read all the comments in the other electric furnace mod[/quote]

What I was saying was that i got a working electric furnace mod out before anyone else.

[FreeER]

lol, you are probably the first to post one. Most decided to wait until they could do it properly so that they wouldn't have to redo it after the next update

[15Cyndaquil]

Well wanted one now so i made it with ingenuity.

[FreeER]

Good, the more modders the better

[15Cyndaquil]

I'm thinking to make a macerator to double iron/copper productivity but it would be close to end game materials and very expensive

[ficolas]

I'm thinking to make a macerator to double iron/copper productivity but it would be close to end game materials and very expensive

Sorry to say but you cant do that (yet? I hope ) if you make an item with two recipes, then the item will be "registered twice" and factorio will send an error message.

[15Cyndaquil]

actualy i could it would have to be like i put in one iron ore and get two out

[drs9999]

May I ask how you achieve that?
The only way to do that that comes to my mind is that you changed the vanilla-recipe and in that case the furnace will do the same.

actualy i could it would have to be like i put in one iron ore and get two out

I am probably wrong, but I am relative sure that I tried something similar some days ago and receive an error, because of creating a recipe like this

[ficolas]

actualy i could it would have to be like i put in one iron ore and get two out

put one ore and get two?
Duping...