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[MOD 0.11.14+] Blueprint String

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:14 am
by DaveMcW
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This mod makes it easy to import and share blueprints.


Installation

1. Download the mod. (0.12 version here)
2. Move it to your Factorio mods directory.
3. Start Factorio and research Automated Construction.


Importing Blueprints

1. Craft an empty blueprint
2. Click the "Blueprint" button to show the panel.
3. Copy a blueprint string from your friend.
4. Paste the blueprint string in the text box.
5. Click "Load String".

Here is a sample blueprint string, for the classic design of 2 assembling machines fed by logistics bots.

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H4sIAAAAAAAA/43SUWvDIBDA8a9S+hxHIltfip+kjOL01h7omZ2mdAS/+67bKAsNWV4UxD+/aPRpE5Kz
YXM0I1DBgpDNOJKNYLY2Z4hvAemkonVnJFB62/Qpy7ZEZrwa1T29NJ9Gxlqb3yqCxyEqCOAKo1N9CjCt
9HfU/o3+p54fpZBOmIsQ7gy5KIaPQWbgafjziXoh7EXHC6ie0wX9fD+B361USBn4QWvvWuOR5Qpu6/pe
5mh5Oe2m6W4NqufQ3SpUz6FajooukTyFQ/dqFv8Rkofr7YSHdtXOrta6ZygD0+a4B/JfV+CPvIMCAAA=
Exporting Blueprints

1. Click the "Blueprint" button to show the panel.
2. Click "Save All"
3. Find the blueprint in your "script-output/blueprint-string" folder (located in the same parent directory as "mods/blueprint-string").


Features

This mod has strict error checking, so bad strings will not crash your game or mess it up. Please report any strings that do!

This mod is tested in single player. I don't have a lot of experience playing multiplayer or modding it, so I appreciate any suggestions on how I can make the mod work better for multiplayer.

Changelog

Re: [0.11.3] Blueprint String

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:24 am
by User_Name
It would benefit everybody if you could agree on the same data format with the author of the Foreman mod.

Re: [0.11.3] Blueprint String

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:53 am
by DaveMcW
We both use the same format for uncompressed strings.

Re: [0.11.3] Blueprint String

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:29 pm
by -root
This. Is. The. Best.

Thanks Dave.

Re: [0.11.3] Blueprint String

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 3:50 pm
by Tami
a blueprintmanager by default in the game would be really nice ;)

Re: [0.11.3] Blueprint String

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:22 pm
by GewaltSam
Does this work in multiplayer at all right now? Then we'll give it a shot I guess. Sounds like a very useful tool indeed!

Re: [0.11.3] Blueprint String

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:52 pm
by KrzysD
Used the code from https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=6516 for the outpost.zip, opened the file with copied with notepad and pasted to compressed it, ran it into Blueprint String, and it created the blueprint fine, placed it and bots started to come to assemble and crashed Compressed code

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Blueprint string https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6742 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Re: [0.11.3] Blueprint String

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:55 pm
by DaveMcW
Thanks, it is fixed in version 0.0.4.

Re: [0.11.3] Blueprint String

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:36 pm
by Zequez
This is fantastic! I've been waiting for this! Gonna totally try it this weekend!

Re: [0.11.3] Blueprint String

Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 6:16 pm
by Nirahiel
I made myself a nice shell script to compress. (Please make it so your mod stops respawning the readme file, PLEASE)

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compress.sh :

#!/bin/sh
find ~/Library/Application\ Support/factorio/script-output/blueprint-string/. -type f -name '*.txt' -exec sh -c 'gzip < $1 | base64 > ${1%.txt}.b64z' -- {} \;
I "invented" the .b64z extension for the compressed files. On mac, a simple cat in enough to view fie contents, no matter the extension.

Re: [0.11.3+] Blueprint String

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 3:08 am
by DaveMcW
I spent the past week porting gzip to lua.

We now have automatic compression for blueprints!

Re: [0.11.3+] Blueprint String

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:58 am
by JamesOFarrell
DaveMcW wrote:I spent the past week porting gzip to lua.

We now have automatic compression for blueprints!
That is awesome. amazing work DaveMcW.

Re: [0.11.3+] Blueprint String

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 9:24 am
by User_Name
DaveMcW wrote:I spent the past week porting gzip to lua.

We now have automatic compression for blueprints!
:o :shock:

Re: [0.11.14] Blueprint String

Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:43 am
by DaveMcW
Updated for Factorio 0.11.14.

I added support for line breaks in blueprint strings. This allows people to break up long lines of text to get around phpbb's 10,000 character line limit.

I am planning to add line breaks by default, but I will wait a bit to give everyone a chance to upgrade. I also need to figure out the best line length. 80 characters? 200 characters? User-defined?

Re: [0.11.14] Blueprint String

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:16 am
by Jos
Excellent work!
This is the most stable tool for sharing blueprint!
What's more, it is really simple and clear to use!

Re: [0.11.14] Blueprint String

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:17 am
by NotABiter
DaveMcW wrote:This mod has strict error checking, so bad strings will not crash your game or mess it up.
But good strings can bring down your whole computer. :lol:

Just posting here to let you know I filed this bug: import "large" blueprints -> computer locks up

In short, something is up with the memory usage. If I import a blueprint with 1,024 items, I see ~38KB of memory used per item (which seems kind of high to me -- 38 bytes would seem more than enough, but whatever - "modern" software is what it is). When I import a blueprint with 2,048 items the per item use goes through the roof (running my machine out of memory when it gets to somewhere around 1MB per item). The massively higher per item memory usage makes it seem that something is broken somewhere, but I have no idea whether the issue is in the blueprint string mod or in Factorio itself.

Re: [0.11.14] Blueprint String

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:06 am
by DaveMcW
Thanks, I added a workaround in version 0.0.7.

Using indexes increases blueprint size by up to 50%, but at least it doesn't freeze.

Re: [0.11.14] Blueprint String

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:15 pm
by DaveMcW
In version 0.0.8, I removed all the indexes and entitynumbers. This cuts blueprint size in half.

Newly generated blueprints require the new import function, so they are not compatible with previous versions.

Re: [0.11.14] Blueprint String

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:10 am
by Jos
Thank you for your excellent work again! :D

This is my translation text for zh-CN:

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main-button=蓝图代码
save-all=蓝图->代码
load-string=代码->蓝图
textbox-caption=代码:
blueprints-saved=已保存__1__个蓝图的代码至 'script-output/blueprint-string'
blueprints-not-saved=未找到可保存的蓝图.
no-empty-blueprint=没有空蓝图, 无法加载代码.
unknown-format=这不是有效的蓝图代码.
no-string=请将蓝图代码粘贴至代码框.
blueprint-api-error=蓝图错误: __1__
blueprint-icon-error=蓝图图标错误: __1__

Re: [0.11.14+] Blueprint String

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 9:01 am
by DaveMcW
Thanks, I added the translation in version 0.0.9.