For my belt sorter mod I would like to make outgoing belts connect to the entity itself.
However currently I don't see a way to implement this. Spawning invisible belts below the entity doesn't help since there would be multiple outgoing belts and those outgoing belts only check for 1 belt on the beltSorter's tile it seems.
See also this screenshot: https://github.com/judos/beltSorter/issues/9
It would be cool to have a property to make belts automatically connect (visually change their input direction) to an entity.
Thanks for your feedback!
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Connect adjacent belts to entity
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aubergine18
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Re: Connect adjacent belts to entity
The base game is getting "loader" belts that do this sort of thing. There's a mod that enables the hidden entities: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/kij336/add-loader
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Re: Connect adjacent belts to entity
Pretty sure that loaders were scrapped from the game (replaced by stack inserters), but they included what they had on them for modders to useaubergine18 wrote:The base game is getting "loader" belts that do this sort of thing. There's a mod that enables the hidden entities: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/kij336/add-loader
Re: Connect adjacent belts to entity
Ok thanks to Nexela we could narrow down the problem.
Spawning multiple belts on the same tile helps and adjacend belts will connect. The problem is only 2 output belts will connect and it's always either only vertical or only horizontal. See also the image.
Spawning multiple belts on the same tile helps and adjacend belts will connect. The problem is only 2 output belts will connect and it's always either only vertical or only horizontal. See also the image.
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?See also the appendix.
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I meant the image that I appended.
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For the curved belts, have you investigated their .direction/.orientation/etc? Maybe a combination of the two is what determines whether to use curved belt sprites? If so, you could potentially listen for changes in belts (create/destroy, etc) adjacent to your entity, and then ensure any that connect to your entity have the right combo of .direction and .orientation etc?
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Just for giggles
Way too hacky to include reliably but a proof of concept. and gives me hope that it can be done!
Way too hacky to include reliably but a proof of concept. and gives me hope that it can be done!
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Which property was it - the .orientation or .direction or something else?
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