Hello, I had this cool idea for a mod which is an oil powered generator. You can either pump heavy oil or convert petroleum to fuel and use that for better efficiency.
The problem is I have no idea where to start, I've been poking around for some reference material but have yet to find anything useful. (I have a basic mod structure and that's about it)
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Help with making an oil powered generater
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Help with making an oil powered generater
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Re: Help with making an oil powered generater
Okay, so I've been digging about and I found the code for the steam engine entity.
I now have a shell of a mod going but my oil generator is not showing up in-game plus I don't know how to change it so it accepts oil instead of water.
Here's what I have so far: https://www.darkserver.co.uk/downloads/ ... _0.0.1.zip
I now have a shell of a mod going but my oil generator is not showing up in-game plus I don't know how to change it so it accepts oil instead of water.
Here's what I have so far: https://www.darkserver.co.uk/downloads/ ... _0.0.1.zip
Check out my gaming community, we hope to one day host Factorio servers! http://www.darkserver.co.uk
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Re: Help with making an oil powered generater
it is currently impossible to set an steam generator to use only 1 type of fluid. It can use every fluid that has an fuel value.
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Re: Help with making an oil powered generater
Ah okay, what about using 2 other liquids?Dysoch wrote:it is currently impossible to set an steam generator to use only 1 type of fluid. It can use every fluid that has an fuel value.
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Re: Help with making an oil powered generater
Maybe you can use the control.lua to override this behaviour?Dysoch wrote:it is currently impossible to set an steam generator to use only 1 type of fluid. It can use every fluid that has an fuel value.
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Re: Help with making an oil powered generater
No. We don't have any logic regarding liquids. (Unless we can use standard inventory functions on liquid boxs.)SHiRKiT wrote:Maybe you can use the control.lua to override this behaviour?Dysoch wrote:it is currently impossible to set an steam generator to use only 1 type of fluid. It can use every fluid that has an fuel value.
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