Hide GUI

[Néomorphos]

Hi all o/
just a quick idea : having a hotkey to hide/show the whole GUI. It would allow to simply walk through your base, enjoying its beauty/complexity/ingeniosity/whatever you want without the GUI. Many games have this option, and it also allows some content creators to produce "cinematic" content (but in Factorio, kinda hard tbh). Examples : overwatch, the witcher 3. (Ok, these are graphically big games, but still, Factorio has its own beauty) I haven't found a control for that in the settings.

[Koub]

[Koub] Moved to Ideas and suggestions.
I'm sure i've seen a similar suggestion recently, but couldn't find where.

[eradicator]

Good news is that it's already trivial to mod. The problem with adding more and more vanilla hotkeys is just that it gets more and more difficult to chose a good default key :D.

Code: Select all

/c
local keys = {
  'show_controller_gui', 'show_minimap', 'show_research_info', 'show_entity_info',
  'show_alert_gui', 'update_entity_selection', 'show_rail_block_visualisation',
  'show_side_menu', 'show_map_view_options', 'show_quickbar','show_shortcut_bar',
  }
local x = not game.player.game_view_settings.show_controller_gui
for _,k in pairs(keys) do game.player.game_view_settings[k] = x end

[Néomorphos]

Very nice!! I don't know much about coding, how can I play with this code as a mod?
And, for hotkeys, I think some already aren't bind by default, so this could be added without bind.

Good news is that it's already trivial to mod. The problem with adding more and more vanilla hotkeys is just that it gets more and more difficult to chose a good default key .

Code: Select all

/c
local keys = {
  'show_controller_gui', 'show_minimap', 'show_research_info', 'show_entity_info',
  'show_alert_gui', 'update_entity_selection', 'show_rail_block_visualisation',
  'show_side_menu', 'show_map_view_options', 'show_quickbar','show_shortcut_bar',
  }
local x = not game.player.game_view_settings.show_controller_gui
for _,k in pairs(keys) do game.player.game_view_settings[k] = x end

[eradicator]

You just need to define a custom-input ("hotkey") or a shortcut (those buttons right of the quickbar) in data stage and then listen for the corresponding event in control stage to call the function i posted.

Long time ago when hotkeys were new and shiny i made a tutorial mod to demonstrate how they work. I've been slacking off a bit on properly commenting all the changes each time i had to fix it up for a new factorio version but it should still be ok as a general guidline: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/HandCrankGenerator

If you want to make your own mod out of this you better make a new thread in modding-help.