"Generates electricity" label

[Byzzee]

Hello mates,

I'm making a mod bringing some ecology stuff in game and I got stuck on wind turbines. In-game entities that produce power have "Generates power" label and production bar in their description (screenshot 1). So I wanna make same thing with my wind turbine, but I didn't find the corresponding attribute for the entity prototype.
Will appreciate any help possible.

https://imgur.com/2N7DXR1
https://imgur.com/SkJGCfQ

[FuryoftheStars]

This is likely an automatic thing that is tagged on either for the entity type or anything that net generates power (without script).

There does exist a few other wind turbine mods already. You can check them out to see if they solved that issue or not and how.

[Byzzee]

Actually I did check some other mods having wind turbines and they didn’t solve this problem either.
It just doesn’t seem right that I can’t put this thing into my entity’s description, so maybe it should be done from control script or something…

[Stringweasel]

It's possible to add custom tooltips. It won't look exactly like normal generators, but at least the information will be there. I do something similar in my mod Biter Power to display the change of escape



In the prototype you add the field `localised_description`

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  {
    name = "bp-generator",
    type = "burner-generator",
    localised_description = {"",
      {"entity-description.bp-generator"},
      {"bp-text.escape-modifier", 5},
    },
    
    ...
 }

And then have the field in you local/en/locale.cfg file something like this

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[bp-text]
escape-modifier=\n[img=tooltip-category-turret][font=default-bold][color=#FFD249]Chance of Escape[/color][/font]\n[font=default-semibold][color=#ffe6c0]Containment modifier:[/color][/font] __1__

[Byzzee]

It's possible to add custom tooltips. It won't look exactly like normal generators, but at least the information will be there. I do something similar in my mod Biter Power to display the change of escape

Oh, actually it's quite close to what I'm trying to accomplish, thanks!
However, making description that way doesn' look exactly like vanilla ones. Also, your "generator" has "Working" status and energy production bar - I suppose you just copied vanilla generator entity, so it just works for you. Maybe if you know, can I just also copy generator entity instead of

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type = "electric-energy-interface"

and just make "required fuel" = None (pardon, Nil) or something like that?