[Mod Request] Standalone crawler/truck

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:39 pm

Hi guys.

You have all seen the crawler from bobs mods. I was wondering if there was a mod that is already available that has this type of car/truck in a stand alone mod.

Or if someone is willing to work with me upon the development of said mod?

I am currently working upon a modpack of sorts and this is something lacking within the pack currently

Mythiey

steinio · Post by **steinio** » Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:02 pm

The Crawler is included in Angel's Industries: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/angelsindustries
Easiest would be to ask Angel to make the dependencies optional or release a standalone version.

The AAI Hauler: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/aai-vehicles-hauler is also very nice.

Other mods provide lorries or trucks:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/truck
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/vwtransporter_A16
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/LJD_Vehicles_A16

Do you have a special use case?

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:51 pm

steinio wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:02 pm
The Crawler is included in Angel's Industries: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/angelsindustries
Easiest would be to ask Angel to make the dependencies optional or release a standalone version.

The AAI Hauler: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/aai-vehicles-hauler is also very nice.

Other mods provide lorries or trucks:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/truck
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/vwtransporter_A16
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/LJD_Vehicles_A16

Do you have a special use case?

Hi, firstly thankyou for your reply. I am looking for something stand alone and the hauler from AAI does match some of the requirements. However it does not meet the style of the pack.

I'm really looking to be able to speak with a mod developer so I can explain in detail and bounce ideas back and forth to nail my idea down and it get developed.

darkfrei · Post by **darkfrei** » Sat Jan 26, 2019 7:23 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:51 pm
I'm really looking to be able to speak with a mod developer so I can explain in detail and bounce ideas back and forth to nail my idea down and it get developed.

Must it be a car for ores mining?

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:05 pm

darkfrei wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 26, 2019 7:23 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:51 pm
I'm really looking to be able to speak with a mod developer so I can explain in detail and bounce ideas back and forth to nail my idea down and it get developed.
Must it be a car for ores mining?

No. It's a truck with a huge cargo area, and a grid (like on power armour) in which roboports, fusion reactors etc can be used.

If you would like anymore info feel free to direct message me

darkfrei · Post by **darkfrei** » Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:21 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:05 pm
No. It's a truck with a huge cargo area, and a grid (like on power armour) in which roboports, fusion reactors etc can be used.

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:24 pm

darkfrei wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:21 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:05 pm
No. It's a truck with a huge cargo area, and a grid (like on power armour) in which roboports, fusion reactors etc can be used.
Which truck it looks like?
https://sketchfab.com/models/3d6aaca01b ... 1277c329e2
https://sketchfab.com/models/42168ac5ba ... 52009c7a7c
https://sketchfab.com/models/7692d6ca88 ... 5b6378b560
https://sketchfab.com/models/3268ee5b3e ... 96a1908d68
https://sketchfab.com/models/d9d717249c ... 9fd01901a9

https://sketchfab.com/models/29ace45ed1 ... 30d39c2142
https://sketchfab.com/models/a67af65739 ... f6805afe29
https://sketchfab.com/models/0ec37184c6 ... a3f89ee705
https://sketchfab.com/models/abed9dc401 ... 1c9071dc18

The 4th one of the list you have looks fantastic!

The "Moon & Mars Buggy - All Terrain Vehicle"

Perfect!

darkfrei · Post by **darkfrei** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:34 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:24 pm
The 4th one of the list you have looks fantastic!
The "Moon & Mars Buggy - All Terrain Vehicle"
Perfect!

Here is my model:
https://sketchfab.com/models/f6c014564d ... 757de111f9

Sprite sheet in 4 parts, public domain:

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: hr-vehicle-2.png (75.25 KiB) Viewed 5305 times

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Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:36 pm

I like it! Is there any way we can make it like the trains where you can pick a colour?

darkfrei · Post by **darkfrei** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:41 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:36 pm

I like it! Is there any way we can make it like the trains where you can pick a colour?

If I make the mask for it. It looks like that orange part of model is too small for this mask.

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:42 pm

darkfrei wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:41 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:36 pm

I like it! Is there any way we can make it like the trains where you can pick a colour?
If I make the mask for it. It looks like that orange part of model is too small for this mask.

Okay

darkfrei · Post by **darkfrei** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:51 pm

Here is the mask.

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:54 pm

Perfect!

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:48 pm

darkfrei wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:51 pm
Here is the mask.

It's looking really good so far!

darkfrei · Post by **darkfrei** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:52 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:48 pm

darkfrei wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:51 pm
Here is the mask.
It's looking really good so far!

Here is it

Crawler_0.0.1.zip: (1.23 MiB) Downloaded 71 times

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 9:15 pm

Sweet! Thanks man! I will test tomorrow on my stream!

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:27 am

So,

I have tested! and it is working as intended!, so far its perfect and exactly what i was hoping for!

there are a few little things i would like to change

I'm not sure if this can be done, is it possible to as logistic request slots and auto trash, like the player has?

The whole premise of this truck/mod is to work has a "building vehicles".. you drive along place a blueprint and it builds it from the cargo of the vehicles , using roboports from the grid, it would be awesome to be able to automatically restock it soon as you drive back within your logistics bots range it restocks.

Immediate Improvements

Change name of mod - "Upgrading Vehicles"

Change name of truck - "Transit Van" - as the vehicle name hauler is also in use by angels mods

Change mask colour - green - i love the colour green

Change research costs to include high techs packs, maybe 100 red,green,blue, yellow science

Larger trunk, double the size - *see extra ideas

larger grid, double the size *see extra ideas

Logistic request slots *see extra ideas

Logistics trash slots *see extra ideas

Extra idea's

I do not want to make the vehicles invincible as soon as you get them, and would like to make it that you have to "work" towards the endgame vehicles, so i think extra research would be good to add

Research Hauler trunk - each level of research adds an extra 10-20 slots of trunk space, maybe up to 8 levels of research, tripling in cost for each level

Research Hauler Grid - each level of research increases the size of the grid, maybe up to 8 levels of research, tripling in cost for each level

Research Hauler Resists - each level of research increases the base resists of the truck, 5 or 6 levels of research, tripling in cost for each level

Research Hauler Health - each level of research increases the base health of the truck by 1000 points, tripling in cost for each level

Research logistic request slots - each level of research increases number of slots

Research logistic trash slots - each level of research increases number of slots

Other types of Transit vehicles

"Transit Locomotive"

Train - "Transit Locomotive" - with the same setup as the truck truck. But with a much larger cargo. Locked behind lots of research

"Transit Plane"

Plane - "Transit Plane" - with the same setup as the truck. But with a much larger cargo. Locked behind and extreme research list, with fast movement speed, a "upgraded version" of the train

darkfrei · Post by **darkfrei** » Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:34 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:27 am
I'm not sure if this can be done, is it possible to as logistic request slots and auto trash, like the player has?

The whole premise of this truck/mod is to work has a "building vehicles".. you drive along place a blueprint and it builds it from the cargo of the vehicles , using roboports from the grid, it would be awesome to be able to automatically restock it soon as you drive back within your logistics bots range it restocks.

Exactly that I've done in https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ConstructionCar

Change mask colour - green - i love the colour green

If you are the first player in your force, then your color is color of the force. Type into console:
/color green

Change research costs to include high techs packs, maybe 100 red,green,blue, yellow science

This vehicle now is easier as tank, no weapon, but nice for going to far posts.

Such updating of vehicles is no possible. I can make a lot of vehicles, every has own properties, but visually same. 3 types of max _health x 3 types of hull size x 3 types of resistance makes 27 prototypes instead of just one that you can see.

I am not sure that I can add logistic slots and trash slots to the vehicle.

Mythiey · Post by **Mythiey** » Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:11 pm

darkfrei wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:34 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:27 am
I'm not sure if this can be done, is it possible to as logistic request slots and auto trash, like the player has?

The whole premise of this truck/mod is to work has a "building vehicles".. you drive along place a blueprint and it builds it from the cargo of the vehicles , using roboports from the grid, it would be awesome to be able to automatically restock it soon as you drive back within your logistics bots range it restocks.
Exactly that I've done in https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ConstructionCar

Change mask colour - green - i love the colour green
If you are the first player in your force, then your color is color of the force. Type into console:
/color green

Change research costs to include high techs packs, maybe 100 red,green,blue, yellow science
This vehicle now is easier as tank, no weapon, but nice for going to far posts.

Such updating of vehicles is no possible. I can make a lot of vehicles, every has own properties, but visually same. 3 types of max _health x 3 types of hull size x 3 types of resistance makes 27 prototypes instead of just one that you can see.

I am not sure that I can add logistic slots and trash slots to the vehicle.

Thanks for informing about how to change the colour!

With regards to the types. That sounds good. Like a mk1 mk2 and mk3..

How about the other types of vechials?

darkfrei · Post by **darkfrei** » Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:50 pm

Mythiey wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:11 pm
With regards to the types. That sounds good. Like a mk1 mk2 and mk3..

How about the other types of vechials?

Plane - "Transit Plane" - with the same setup as the truck. But with a much larger cargo. Locked behind and extreme research list, with fast movement speed, a "upgraded version" of the train

Planes are very dangerous, if you go out to the water then you are dead.

Very powerful locomotive mode: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/BulletWillTrain

Very powerful aircraft: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Aircraft

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