Stop Camera Movement?

[FishSandwich]

I'm not sure where a post like this belongs, so feel free to move it if it's not meant to be here.

I'm trying to find a way of making the player move independently of the camera. For example, what I want to do is make the camera stay still and have the player move off the screen. Does anyone know if this is possible with a console command or mod? (I know that the opposite is possible with game.player.character = nil)

[n9103]

I've no idea, but I'm curious/puzzled why you'd want to do this?

[DaveMcW]

Here is a proof-of-concept mod that manipulates character position.

How to use:

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remote.call("AutoMove", "north")
game.player.character = nil
remote.call("AutoMove", "south")
remote.call("AutoMove", "east")
remote.call("AutoMove", "west")
remote.call("AutoMove", "speed", 5)
remote.call("AutoMove", "stop")
remote.call("AutoMove", "center")

Issues:
- No collision detection
- No animation

[FishSandwich]

Any way to keep animation? I guess more specifically what I want is to keep the camera on one spot and control the player as normal.(including being able to move it off screen)

[Xterminator]

Dare I ask why you want to be able to do this? :p

[silman]

Dare I ask why you want to be able to do this? :p

Methinks Fish is going to be producing some sort of machinima made in Factorio and needs to be able to get views with the player not on screen.

[rk84]

Seems like it has been only mentioned in changelog (0.8.0), but it is possible to read/write character states.
Example usage I had mod that copy/paste my drivingstate to other characters ontick.

I'm not sure if it is possible to read god controller state. since it has no charracter.
for god mode, you could possibly set up textfield in corner and use it to read keyport inputs.

Setting walkingstate.

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character.walkingstate = ( walking = boolean, direction = number )

Its a table, but I'm typing this with smartphone that has no wavy brackets in key layout.

[cube]

Dare I ask why you want to be able to do this? :p

Methinks Fish is going to be producing some sort of machinima made in Factorio and needs to be able to get views with the player not on screen.

Take a look at the trailer mod. There were several lua api calls added just to make things like this possible in trailer.

[FishSandwich]

Oh wow, I forgot about the trailer mod! I'll definitely look into that then, I think that'll definitely be easier than how I'm doing it now..

[DaveMcW]

Setting walkingstate.

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character.walkingstate = { walking = boolean, direction = number }

Thanks, that solved animation and collision detection!

Textfield input is really awkward. I went with mouse input and an onscreen direction pad.

Updated mod:

[rk84]

Textfield input is really awkward. I went with mouse input and an onscreen direction pad.

I made rival mod with textfield
Clicking the textfield toggle mode.
I made same kind of system as in your pad.

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-- Keyport inputs: S is stop. Others are directional inputs that can toggle walking.
-- QWE
-- ASD
-- ZXC

remote-move_0.1.0.zip

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[micomico]

I made rival mod with textfield

Shots fired!

[FishSandwich]

Textfield input is really awkward. I went with mouse input and an onscreen direction pad.

I made rival mod with textfield
Clicking the textfield toggle mode.
I made same kind of system as in your pad.

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-- Keyport inputs: S is stop. Others are directional inputs that can toggle walking.
-- QWE
-- ASD
-- ZXC

remote-move_0.1.0.zip

Beautiful! This works well, thank you! To both of you.