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

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:31 am
by 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:
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Why ?
It will allow the placement of different fluids one next to another.

Re: Idea suggestion for pipe placement: manual orientation

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 10:30 am
by darkfrei

Re: Idea suggestion for pipe placement: manual orientation

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:44 am
by Koub
aeshar wrote:
Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:31 am
Image 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

Re: Idea suggestion for pipe placement: manual orientation

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 2:16 pm
by 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.)
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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...

Re: Idea suggestion for pipe placement: manual orientation

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 3:07 pm
by darkfrei
BlueTemplar wrote:
Sat Jul 20, 2019 2:16 pm
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.

Re: Idea suggestion for pipe placement: manual orientation

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 3:38 pm
by BlueTemplar
It did, before being absorbed by the Picker-Borg :
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/clamp-tool
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Re: [closed, a mod exists] Idea suggestion for pipe placement: manual orientation

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:08 pm
by aeshar
Thanks to all of you. I checked the forum, but forgot to check if a mod existed.

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

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:56 pm
by 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.