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zytukin wrote:A simple solution for calling the train could be a way to open the GUI from outside the train, if that is possible. Like a button at the top of your screen the same way blueprint flipper, fat controller, and many other mods do. Then you could just open it and call it to whatever station is closest to you. As it is now, one can use the fat controller to remotely access the train and send it to your location (I do this with a normal train already for personal transport) but accessing the engine from outside the train still has the unmodded station listing gui. Eliminating that step (and the requirement of the fat controller to do it) would make the mod far more versatile and appealing.

DofD wrote:Stations from the Smart Trains mod are not recognized as stations and as such are not listed
Other than that it works flawlessly in MP ^^
Maybe you could include an option so smart stations/stations are displayed separate. This might reduce the clutter in the menu?!

StanFear wrote:Hey, I made a pull request for filtering station in the list

feel free to merge it or not, but maybe don't merge it if you don't understand what changes I made, well, unless you are not doing this to learn lua : but just to have a super fun mod !

anyways, if you don't understand something, just ask ! and if this is your baby and you don't want help (by that I mean someone that does the work instead of you), I get it

DofD wrote:So i uploaded the mod to my .29 headless client and started it up
it only shows 2 stations atm but i have more in my network
Not shure if it is releated to multiplayer but i guess. Will test more ;D
Cancel this. Stations from the Smart Trains mod are not recognized as stations and as such are not listed
Other than that it works flawlessly in MP ^^

Cheers

Edit 987423 :
Maybe you could include an option so smart stations/stations are displayed separate. This might reduce the clutter in the menu?!

Vas wrote:I was also hoping that as suggested before, we could get a filter to show train stations with either a specific name, or you could make a "Shuttle Stop" (Train stop) that will show up on the shuttle's menu instead of showing "all stops".

Vas wrote:I was hoping we could get compatibility with bob's mods, the one that adds the additional tiers of trains. Your shuttle barely moves if I put two MK3 wagons on it. Was hoping for Shuttle MK2 and Shuttle MK3 that works the same as the ones in bob's mod.
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Vas wrote:I was also hoping that as suggested before, we could get a filter to show train stations with either a specific name, or you could make a "Shuttle Stop" (Train stop) that will show up on the shuttle's menu instead of showing "all stops".

• Station filtering
• Alphabetically sorted train station list
• Call button to get the train to come to you

DofD wrote:Got something new for you

log

It seems to conflict with the [MOD 0.12.x] The 8L Train Project v1.2.2 (Updated '16-04-12). It doesnt crash without this mod ^^
Just a heads up for you to prevent further complications in the future

Cheers

 if (player.vehicle == nil or player.vehicle ~= nil and player.vehicle.name ~= "shuttleTrain") and player.gui.top.shuttleTop == nil then

 if (player.vehicle == nil or player.vehicle ~= nil and player.vehicle.name ~= "shuttleTrain") and player.gui.top.shuttleFrame == nil then

• Fixed crash bug reported here
• Fixed multiple shuttles being sent to stations with the same name
• Fixed certain chars in statioins names would crash
• Distance check is now done so that it's the train nearest the station not the player

Jackielope wrote:Is the Shuttle Train button on the top left supposed to show up before having researched Shuttle Trains? I recently added the mod to my list (and I'll also be supporting it with my 8L Train Project mod) so it has been brought into a map that has everything else researched. The button is also showing up on a save that has only just finished researching trains but hasn't built any yet.

Jackielope wrote:And thank you for making this mod! One thing I am really hoping can work with this is having a little electric monorail system or whatever that only transports the player character. Useful for going around the base.

I noticed you've got a bit of a problem in the code though: In the item.lua file you've got the stack size as 1. The vanilla game has locomotives stacking to 5. I've already changed the number in my own copy of your mod and that fixes the issue.

As for coding it so the button doesn't pop up until after the research is done, I'm not sure how to do it myself but I do know Choumiko and Outsider know how to do that since they both have mods that add a button on the top left after the mod has been researched. Choumiko has done work on YARM, FARL, SmartTrains, and TheFATController. Outsider has the Advanced Logistics Systems mod. Before directly asking them for some help it'd probably be worthwhile to dig through the coding to hopefully see what it would take to make the button only pop up after the research.

simwir wrote: Thaks for letting me know about the tsack size of only 1, that was an oversight and has been fixed for next release

I will be sure to check out their code to see how they did it.

StanFear wrote:that's actually fairly easy : when creating the GUI, check if the player's force has the research complete (player.force.technologies["tech_name"].researched)
if it is not, just create the GUI for all players of the force when a tech is researched (using event on_research_finished)
You might have to do a little thinking if you want to handle player changing forces

player.force.technologies["shuttleTrain_tech"].researched

/c game.player.force.technologies["shuttleTrain_tech"].researched = true

Roktaal wrote:Check my Mod Iconizer. It handles research in a fairly simple way altho it doesn't handle players changing force

Roktaal wrote:This is a simple solution:
I've added

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script.on_event(defines.events.on_research_finished, function(event)
	for player_index, player in pairs(game.players) do
		addPlayerGui(player, event.research.name)
	end
end)

and changed function addPlayerGui to

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function addPlayerGui(player, research_name)
    if (player.vehicle == nil or player.vehicle ~= nil and player.vehicle.name ~= "shuttleTrain") and player.gui.top.shuttleFrame == nil then
		if research_name == "shuttleTrain_tech" or player.force.technologies["shuttleTrain_tech"].researched then
			player.gui.top.add{type="frame", name="shuttleFrame", direction = "vertical"}
			player.gui.top.shuttleFrame.add{type="button", name="shuttleTop", style="st_top_image_button_style" }
		end
    end
end

This was enough to make the button appear only when the tech is researched.

...but my OCD kicked in so I went further and removed the frame and redesigned button style. My personal preference is to avoid as much elements as possible so having only a button is better than having a button inside a frame, but thats my personal preference.