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Hi, in 0.15.7 will be possibly breaking change for lot of mods.

Since this changes requires users to disable a *TON* of mods (basically all that use icons), it would be nice if the list of disabled mods were logged somewhere. I just checked my log and I only see the icon error, but no list of mods to be disabled. Now, I just exited and didn't do the disabling, so maybe(!) if I let the game disable them I get a list? I also can't copy/paste list, and screenshots, the only option I see, are damn annoying for text lists.

This change also seems to be inaccurate as well when listing the mods to be disabled.

My mod originally defined the height/width of the 5 images it uses as 32x32. I changed it to use icon_size of 32 yet my mod still appears in the list of "bad" mods. I even double checked my images to make sure they were 32x32 pixel of the png type.
Yet if I comment out all the sprite image prototypes it disappears from the list.

This is getting frustrating.


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Yeah this change is inaccurate for mods....Creating a bug report.

credomane wrote:This change also seems to be inaccurate as well when listing the mods to be disabled.

My mod originally defined the height/width of the 5 images it uses as 32x32. I changed it to use icon_size of 32 yet my mod still appears in the list of "bad" mods. I even double checked my images to make sure they were 32x32 pixel of the png type.
Yet if I comment out all the sprite image prototypes it disappears from the list.

This is getting frustrating.


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Yeah this change is inaccurate for mods....Creating a bug report.

The mods list is "all mods that use this icon". The game doesn't know which one gave the bad definition. That part wasn't changed with this update - the update just requires that all mods do it correctly now instead of just chopping icons incorrectly.

Rseding91 wrote:The mods list is "all mods that use this icon".

It is acutally little worse. It lists all mods that modified a thing that uses this icon, and if the thing is gui-style, it will list every mod that added/modified any style, because all styles are just one big prototype. This is for example what research queue mod does, creates new gui styles for every technology prototype. I want to improve that part.

I was really banging my head off the desk trying to figure this one out when I managed to create a small dozen line (that could really be reduced to a one-liner mod that would trigger the issue.)

Glad to know what the cause is. Believe I'm actually creating the gui-style in the wrong way causing my mod to appear in the list for "no" reason. Will have to experiment more later and see if I can't fix that.

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Guess I can't fix it the way I expected. Now I get "Only one gui style can be defined now, later we can make it more variable. Great.
Off to modding discussion!

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I worked around it. LuaStyle is runtime editable on individual buttons. I just made a silly helper function that sets up the sprite buttons the way I want upon creation. Dirty but it works and gets rid of the custom button style. Gets my mod off of this list whenever that error happens.

I really wonder why base mod has different technology icon size than custom mods.
The absence of icon_size in the base mod, with the need of icon_size = 128 for custom mods has caused confusion for quite a long time.

Mooncat wrote:I really wonder why base mod has different technology icon size than custom mods.
The absence of icon_size in the base mod, with the need of icon_size = 128 for custom mods has caused confusion for quite a long time.

It's a legacy thing from 0.13 where we changed technology gui and technology icons to 128x128px and decided to default mod icon to 32x32px because "that is what mods are used to".

posila wrote:

Mooncat wrote:I really wonder why base mod has different technology icon size than custom mods.
The absence of icon_size in the base mod, with the need of icon_size = 128 for custom mods has caused confusion for quite a long time.

It's a legacy thing from 0.13 where we changed technology gui and technology icons to 128x128px and decided to default mod icon to 32x32px because "that is what mods are used to".

I thought 0.15.0 was a good opportunity to break existing mods for making things better (more consistent in this case), since they are already broken by "factorio_version" in info.json. But sounds like you have missed the opportunity.

Don't miss 0.16.0, if you want to require icon_size to be always specified.
Also, the event names.

Especially since previous versions demanded 64x64, it did feel odd that it demands for 32x32