Description
Adds portals that can teleport players (and only players!). Build the portals using the portal gun: Left click for the orange portal, SHIFT+ Left click (ghost build) for the blue portal. Every player can have one set of portals which can be distinguished using the number next to the portal. Adds combustible lemons that work similiar to cluster grenades, just with fire.
Details
Name: Portals
Version: 0.7.1
Factorio-Version: 0.16 to 1.1 (0.14 and 0.15 available on github)
Description: Adds combustible lemons, a portal gun and portals. Each player has their own set of portals that can be used by all players.
surface: LuaSurface, the surface of the new portal
player: LuaPlayer that the portal belongs to. This player can't have more than one pair, build_portal will delete any excess portals
destroy_portal: function(entity)
Destroy the given entity if it is a portal (also destroys label + animation).
Parameter:
entity: LuaEntity, the portal to destroy
disable_long_distance_placing: function(bool)
Change whether the blue portal can be placed from a long distance.
Parameter:
bool: Boolean, if this is true the player can never place from a long distance, if it is false, the player can place from a long distance depending on the mod option
/c remote.call("portals", "build_portal_b", game.player, game.player.surface, game.player.position) --place at current player position
/c remote.call("portals", "destroy_portal", game.player.selected) --destroy currently selected portal
/c remote.call("portals", "disable_long_distance_placing", true) --disable long distance placing
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 12:34 am
by teenkertoy
How has nobody thanked you for this? Portals in Factorio was a small revolution for me. Awesome work.
Two requests:
Could you make the portals a little larger? They are sometimes hard to walk through when I'm using lots of exoskeleton because my ability to walk to such a precise target is difficult at high speed.
Also, since 0.15.12 updated today I have the following error upon loading the game:
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Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 12:53 am
by teenkertoy
I'm not sure if this is a good fix or not, but poked around in the mod file entities.lua and replaced two instances of "effectivity = 0" with "effectivity = 1". It seems to work, I hope this help.
Also, I was able to get the functionality I wanted by changing some of the X and Y values in control.lua. Don't worry about making changes to the mod just for me since I am happy now.
Thank you again for your work on this!
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:37 am
by Bilka
Thanks for the bug report, I'll release a fix today. Darn devs didn't document the change....
I have had problems with getting into the portal before, though I thought it had to do with how often I check if someone is on a portal. I find that making the portal bigger would be kind of weird because it currently fits to the size of the player. So I can only tweak the values you mentioned by very small amounts without making people teleport while they are not *really* on the portal.
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 10:08 am
by Bilka
Alright, I fixed the bug, the newest version is currently version 0.2.3.
Currently known issues: The portal shows the researched lab research speed bonus. This willl be fixed by a major overhaul that will also add better sounds, propulsion gel, and repulsion gel.
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Sat May 20, 2017 7:45 pm
by teenkertoy
You know companion cubes look an awful lot like chests, and the talking turrets look a lot like turrets, and the Glados potato looks a lot like a combinator, and Glados might look like a radar if you quint your eyes a bit.
Just saying.....
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 7:56 pm
by Bilka
Alright, version 0.2.5 is done. I was sadly unable to add the gels in a way that wasn't incredibly unintuitive. I was however able to add combustible lemons. So have fun with the lemons that life gives you
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:32 am
by teenkertoy
Heh, thank you again for your work on this. I really enjoy using the portals and they seem to fit into the Factorio play style so cleanly despite being completely against the lore. It's very strange, but very fun.
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 5:27 pm
by FerrariMAF
Hi Bilka!
Thanks for your mod. I love Portal (who does not?), And I'm also developing a mod, MSI, which adds missions to the game. Recently it includes secondary missions, and one of them is to rescue Wheatley, who will help to build the gun portal of his mod. So the mods are integrated. If you want to check the mod, here it is: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/MFerrari ... Industries
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 3:36 pm
by Sander_Bouwhuis
This mod is indispensable in my rail world playthrough. A request though : could we possibly have more than 1 portal?
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 3:59 pm
by Bilka
Sander_Bouwhuis wrote:could we possibly have more than 1 portal?
No, that would make the mod more than op. A tip though: You can place the blue portal from the map view
If you are looking to just instantly teleport everywhere, you might want to have a look at the teleportation mod.
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:35 pm
by FerrariMAF
Bilka wrote:
Sander_Bouwhuis wrote:could we possibly have more than 1 portal?
No, that would make the mod more than op. A tip though: You can place the blue portal from the map view
If you are looking to just instantly teleport everywhere, you might want to have a look at the teleportation mod.
Hi Bilka. some may think placing portal from map view too OP. Have you thought about making this feature an optional setting ?
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:45 pm
by Bilka
FerrariMAF wrote:Hi Bilka. some may think placing portal from map view too OP. Have you thought about making this feature an optional setting ?
No, since I can't. It's not intended, it's just a side effect of how the portals are placed. But it works. If you don't want it to work, don't use it
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:42 pm
by FerrariMAF
Bilka wrote:
FerrariMAF wrote:Hi Bilka. some may think placing portal from map view too OP. Have you thought about making this feature an optional setting ?
No, since I can't. It's not intended, it's just a side effect of how the portals are placed. But it works. If you don't want it to work, don't use it
Well...
script.on_event(defines.events.on_built_entity, function(event)
if event.created_entity.type == "entity-ghost" and event.created_entity.ghost_name == "portal" then --is portal ghost-placed?
local new_position = event.created_entity.position
local player = game.players[event.player_index]
local max_dist = player.character.build_distance
local X = new_position.x
local Y = new_position.y
local pY=player.character.position.y
local pX=player.character.position.x
event.created_entity.destroy() --destroy portal which is just a placeholder entitiy
if X>=pX-max_dist and X<=pX+max_dist and Y>=pY-max_dist and Y<=pY+max_dist then
player.surface.create_entity{name = "portalgun-shoot-b", position = new_position}
build_portal(player, "portal-b", "portal-animation-b", new_position, global.b_portals, event.player_index)
end
elseif event.created_entity.name == "portal" then --is portal normally placed?
local new_position = event.created_entity.position
local player = game.players[event.player_index]
event.created_entity.destroy() --destroy portal which is just a placeholder entity
player.cursor_stack.set_stack{name="portal-gun", count = 1} --make player hold one portal gun, does not care if player already holds portal guns
player.surface.create_entity{name = "portalgun-shoot-a", position = new_position}
build_portal(player, "portal-a", "portal-animation-a", new_position, global.a_portals, event.player_index)
end
end)
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:46 pm
by Bilka
I guess I'll have to update it then... Here I am, trying to be lazy, and you ruin it
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 6:48 pm
by FerrariMAF
Bilka wrote:I guess I'll have to update it then... Here I am, trying to be lazy, and you ruin it
Hahahaha
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:48 pm
by Sander_Bouwhuis
Please don't change it, or have it as an option.
Can I only place the blue portal, or both?
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:52 pm
by Bilka
Only the blue one. And yes, it will be a mod option, no worries.
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:27 pm
by Bilka
Version 0.2.7 is out.
- Added setting to disable the ability to place blue portals from long distances.
- Cleaned up entity code
Re: [MOD 0.14 + 0.15] Portals
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 2:25 pm
by Sander_Bouwhuis
Thanks for this wonderful mod. I use the 'blue portal from map' mode and it works great!
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