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Skeleton Man wrote:how feasable is it to allow vehicles with a color signal or something similar to take on that color on their exterior, similar to how when a player of a particular color is controlling them?

it would be nice to visually organize them

robertpaulson wrote:Do I really have to install all other mods to have RTS control of my car? I don't want any other feature, just to have a RC car.

Before I start playing with the files, is it even viable to shave this mod down to just RC of vanilla vehicles?

Earendel wrote:
No, the ones with ? are optional.

		"aai-programmable-structures >= 0.3.3",
		"aai-zones >= 0.2.1",
		"detached-gun-sounds >= 0.2.1",
		"off-grid-effects >= 0.2.1",
		"aai-signals >= 0.2.1",
		"aai-vehicles-miner >= 0.2.1",
		"aai-vehicles-hauler >= 0.2.1",

robertpaulson wrote:

Earendel wrote:
No, the ones with ? are optional.

Yes, I know that. But you have 7 required mods:

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		"aai-programmable-structures >= 0.3.3",
		"aai-zones >= 0.2.1",
		"detached-gun-sounds >= 0.2.1",
		"off-grid-effects >= 0.2.1",
		"aai-signals >= 0.2.1",
		"aai-vehicles-miner >= 0.2.1",
		"aai-vehicles-hauler >= 0.2.1",

Considering I just want an RC function, hauler, miner, zones I assume could be dealt entirely without. I was asking if its even possible to shave off all these out for an RC functionality (I can do the leg work myself, and started it yesterday). I just don't want to spend few days working on it to realize that the RC or RTS-like control mechanics or tweaks are embedded in something thats not intuitively related.(not sure if I'm making myself clear here)

I really don't want all these items, features. I briefly browsed through some of it and I saw they change vehicle physics which will collide with some mods I already have. So I will be really happy if I can just select a single non-occupied car/tank and click it to go some place (that's how simple I want it). It doesn't have to account for collisions since it will be a single unit (that's where the vehicle physics changes came from I assume since they change collisions) it even doesn't have to engage with enemies, but it can I don't mind that part.

Earendel wrote: I don't know what version you're using but the miner and hauler are optional now. In the future structures, zones, and signals can be made optional.
Data-raw-prototypes will not be required once a few things get properly implemented in the Factorio API, that's probably a few weeks away.
Off-grid-effects and detached-gun-sounds will always be required.

whitecold wrote:

buggy123 wrote:Would it be possible to add a setting to toggle the 1-weapon-per-vehicle mechanic? It's possible to disable it by deleting a few bits in entity-update and entity-update-external but its kind of annoying doing it after every update.

Which bits exactly have to be deleted? I broke the mod trying to accomplish that.

function aai_split_vehicle(vehicle_name, gun_names)
end

    -- only 1 gun per vehicle
    if vehicle.guns and #vehicle.guns > 1 then
        -- assume last gun is best?
        vehicle.guns = {vehicle.guns[#vehicle.guns]}
    end

buggy123 wrote:
I really wish this was a configurable option.

Sabrewulf wrote:My vehicles hit anything at it way to reach the target when following.
Can you add a path-finding when following to avoid obstacles?

Sabrewulf wrote:My vehicles hit anything at it way to reach the target when following.
Can you add a path-finding when following to avoid obstacles?

• Set up a constant combinator and a decider combinator
• Connect constant to decider input with green wire
• Set the decider combinator to output everything by value when X > 0. X is a zone, which loos like an arrow pointing up (color doesn't matter)
• Set the constant combinator to output what you want a vehicle to do on that zone. That would be direction = 360 and whatever speed you want
• Repeat that for the 7 other directions of the same color
• Connect inputs of the 8 decider combinators with red wire
• Connect outputs of the 8 decider combinators with red wire
• Place a unit scanner and connect output to any decider combinator input using red wire
• Set the unit scanner to trigger every single tick and make it output zone and ID
• Place a unit controller and connect input to output of the decider combinators using red wire
• Set the unit controller to trigger every tick

Berkys32 wrote:Im using bobs vehicles and its equipment. And just realized vehicles are using battery energy instead of solid fuels (which I have tons of).
If it isnt bug, how to turn it off?

EDIT: It does even without bobs mods, just with vehicle grid...

EDIT 2: Its most probably caused by your mod - if i turn AAI off, vehicles cant use battery power to move anymore.

robertpaulson wrote:

Earendel wrote: I don't know what version you're using but the miner and hauler are optional now. In the future structures, zones, and signals can be made optional.
Data-raw-prototypes will not be required once a few things get properly implemented in the Factorio API, that's probably a few weeks away.
Off-grid-effects and detached-gun-sounds will always be required.

That's good news. I managed to strip everything except Data-raw-prototypes and off-grid-effects. and few other things like allowing engines to be crafted manually. You changed a lot of things in there without specifying it that (to my knowledge) is not required but affects game balance quite significantly. anyhow:

now, as excepted, i have some trouble getting the mod (remote control item) to work. It selects a unit (a car) and a box appears with Type ID and Unit ID however there is no box below that gets populated, and the Manual Commands (Shift+LMB) do not work. Can you give me a hint where this is handled currently?