[closed, a mod exists] Idea suggestion for pipe placement: manual orientation

[aeshar]

TL;DR

Change direction of pipes when put down from automatic to manual.

What ?

Instead of having pipes direction handled automatically, I suggest that pipes could have a direction, but no orientation. Long story short, you could either place north-south pipes or east-west, then the same logic that handle belt would change the direction of the soon-to-be-placed pipe:

Why ?

It will allow the placement of different fluids one next to another.

[darkfrei]

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Flow%20Control

[Koub]

https://imgur.com/8lCQgGI (note: the img tag doesn't seems to work?)

The img tag works like a charm. But it needs an actual image, not a link to a page containing an image.
https://imgur.com/8lCQgGI <== Not an image, just a link to the imgur page containing the image + ads + trackers + links to other stuff
https://i.imgur.com/8lCQgGI.png <== Image

[BlueTemplar]

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/PickerPipeTools pretty much does what you ask for :

(Pipes can also be clamped manually, using the Ctrl+R shortcut.)




P.S.: Sorry for the image sizes, the resize subtags for img (.gif) don't seem to work, and I haven't been able to find any for .webm...

[darkfrei]

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/PickerPipeTools pretty much does what you ask for :

Yes, it's pretty difficult to recognize this mod with that mod icon, on the icon image must be at least one clamped pipe.

[BlueTemplar]

It did, before being absorbed by the Picker-Borg :
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/clamp-tool

[aeshar]

Thanks to all of you. I checked the forum, but forgot to check if a mod existed.

[Darinth]

Keep in mind, just because a mod exists doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad feature. The ability to lay pipes next to each other without fluid mixing honestly seems like a good base game feature.