Add a Wagon-Turret that has the exact behaviour you can expect: moving on rail like a wagon a shooting like a gun turret on enemies. The turret can be recharged via inserters like a cargo (but only on the center of the wagon).
Approximately from the more plausible (and/or expected easy to do) to the most far-fetched:
Add Accumulator/Laser Turret Wagons. Extend any turret from any mod. (i'll need to tinker a bit in lua to do that, creating new entities prototypes for each new turret).
Functionally there is two entities for a turret wagon, one that receive the ammo and the other that can be placed/removed/attached. It can be a little unintuitive to use.
There is no "shadow" of the turret wagon being placed. But there are the links with what will be attached.
Others ways to customize trains! Sharp wagons that damage enemies on contact, Biter Attractor, Ramp-Wagons for Cars or Tanks (potentially controlled by other players and shooting from there)
{*]Improve the look of it. I am a potatoe in image editing (and even worse at 3D rendering) so for no it is really far from a priority.
Tinker with automated trains: from patrol trains to trains that try to reach conflict zones (via warning listening or radar, potentially an alert that can be triggered via circuit logic and propagate to all the patrol trains). Trains that slow or even stop in contact with natives.
Notes
This is my first factorio mod. I learned a lot from how the RailTanker mod works and want to give it some credit.
For now the turrets on rails are maybe too strong - due to being turrets with train resistances. I will try to balance that.
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Re: [MOD 0.12.24]Combat Trains
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 6:31 pm
by ZombieMooose
awesome work
downloading now
Re: [MOD 0.12.24]Combat Trains
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:52 am
by Susucr
Version 0.0.2 out!
I decided on having a lone turret on a small wagon. Because it let the user chose himself the ratio of cargo/turrets for each train.
I have removed the entire wagon sprite because of that. it looks a little disconnected from the train (especially on horizontal rails), and i will maybe try to improve that.
Added a horribly looking tech icon too.
Next i will add accumulators and lasers!
Re: [MOD 0.12.24]Combat Trains
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:56 am
by Porter65
It seems a very nice mod. I admit though that not having the turrets on a tiny plausible wagon detracts me from the mod.
Re: [MOD 0.12.24]Combat Trains
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:02 pm
by Kazaanh
Tested this, absolutely nice.
But there are few problems.
*First the gun turret sprite seems to overlap with train wagon texture.
*Trying to manually put ammo is kinda tricky at the beginning but it works once you figure it out, highlight area is too small. You mentioned it already so its alright, not a really big problem.
*Insterters only put up to 12 ammo? Its kinda low especially with the late game upgrades when your gun turrets burn through the ammo very quick, they should be able to fill gun-wagons to at least 100 or fill it completely , since there are 4 slots?
*Gun turret sprite slighly *runs away* from the wagon at the high speeds?
Since I am a aesthetics guys and I honestly dislike any kind of recolored official art or ugly ass sprites maybe you should consider using these sprites from the 5dim mod? viewtopic.php?f=15&t=13859#p94606 , there is hella sexy empty wagon so it would look absolutely amazing with gun/tesla turets which ofc are vanilla animated . I really hate static non-animated turrets, it adds a bit of immersion if you know what I mean.
If you manage somehow to put these sprites and replace the cargo wagon , I will love you forever ( no homo btw )
And also speaking about the future updates? Tesla turrets, maybe make them use ammo too? Something like Power Cell ( you need to craft if by using few batteries and some iron plates or sth ) ,a single power cell would work just like the normal gun turret ammo but single ammo would last a lot longer than smg ammo.
Cheers and keep working on this amazing mod~
Re: [MOD 0.12.24]Combat Trains
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:30 pm
by Ben Vagan
Even tho it's still wip this mod is really fun, it hads a lot of new possibilities just by using standard turret wagons.
I bet it will be even more awesome after the laser turret update and adding compatibility with other turret mods might also be a good idea.
[quote=Kazaanh]*First the gun turret sprite seems to overlap with train wagon texture.
*Trying to manually put ammo is kinda tricky at the beginning but it works once you figure it out, highlight area is too small. You mentioned it already so its alright, not a really big problem.
*Insterters only put up to 12 ammo? Its kinda low especially with the late game upgrades when your gun turrets burn through the ammo very quick, they should be able to fill gun-wagons to at least 100 or fill it completely , since there are 4 slots?
*Gun turret sprite slighly *runs away* from the wagon at the high speeds?[/quote]
I completly agree with this suggestions tho, how you are going to change the current sprite it's not a problem, I just think it's something that must be done!
Re: [MOD 0.12.24]Combat Trains
Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 2:56 pm
by Kazaanh
It seems this mod is abandoned but it didn't stopped me anyways from trying to edit it.
Looks way better and more immersive, there are some problems with models transparency because turret vanishes sometimes ( no idea why iam just beginner modder, JUST barely started modding ) and turret is quite small if you compare it to the wagon.
