[0.12]Ideas, suggestions & discussion

[Boogieman14]

Nah, this is such a fringe case that I suspect any development time spent on it would be far better spent elsewhere

[Boogieman14]

Speaking of development time

Do you think it would be feasible to implement a toggle for the blueprint? Right now you could clear and then re-read the same blueprint set, but it might be nice to have a toggle to switch between blueprint-based building or regular building. That would make it easier for me to use FARL for laying the main line and then switching to building a specific siding going into a station.

And while I'm suggesting features: I realize it's pretty hard to place the tracks other than the main track in turns, but it might be useful if it would clear out any trees and rocks within blueprint range at least to make room for manually placing the curves there.

[Choumiko]

Do you think it would be feasible to implement a toggle for the blueprint? Right now you could clear and then re-read the same blueprint set, but it might be nice to have a toggle to switch between blueprint-based building or regular building. That would make it easier for me to use FARL for laying the main line and then switching to building a specific siding going into a station.

Under Settings you can toggle placing of parallel tracks already. I could at this option to the main ui, so it's easier to reach?

And while I'm suggesting features: I realize it's pretty hard to place the tracks other than the main track in turns, but it might be useful if it would clear out any trees and rocks within blueprint range at least to make room for manually placing the curves there.

Should be quite easy, i'll see what I can do.

[Boogieman14]

Under Settings you can toggle placing of parallel tracks already. I could at this option to the main ui, so it's easier to reach?

I had noticed that toggle, just never considered it would do just this... I'll give that a try next time i play.

[Choumiko]

I had noticed that toggle, just never considered it would do just this... I'll give that a try next time i play.

It's not exactly toggling between blueprint / no blueprint layout. It's just not placing the tracks/signals for parallel lines. Poles and other stuff will be built as defined in the blueprint. Should be good enough or even better than switching to the standard layout?

[waduk]

I'm curious about this planned feature :
Pathfinding and automated driving to location
Do we setup some marker on map, than FARL will go to that marker automatically ?

Also, maybe a bit of stretch of my current skill, but i will starting to learn 3D program (Cinema4D) soon (next week).
Maybe i can contribute to make a model for FARL ?

[Choumiko]

I'm curious about this planned feature :
Pathfinding and automated driving to location
Do we setup some marker on map, than FARL will go to that marker automatically ?

Ideally, yes. But i might have to ditch the pathfinding and instead have the player programm it like: go 1k tiles north, go 500 tiles northeast, go 50 tiles east. Or maybe have it programmable by some sort of drone that let's you define waypoints. Last time i tried pathfinding was a pain and slow to find the path.

Also, maybe a bit of stretch of my current skill, but i will starting to learn 3D program (Cinema4D) soon (next week).
Maybe i can contribute to make a model for FARL ?

Depending on the result i guess that would be nice

[waduk]

That's really awesome, yeah this will be a really-really useful feature. Factorio is all about automating, right?
Wow...

Haha, yeah, it's up to you to decide. I will not posted the attempt on forum (PM's you instead), if i submitted my work.
Will be embarrassed by newb attempt at 3D modelling, hehe...

[DRBLN]

Please advise when "Enter" bug will be fixed.

[Choumiko]

Seems like it's going to be 0.12.7:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 30&t=14802

[provet]

Could you please add compatibility for multiple forces? As far as I know only the placed entities are incompatible, rails etc.

Edit:
In FARL.lua replace all game.force.player with self.driver.force and it should work with multiple forces. I don't think if any issues occur by doing this, I tested it and it worked like a charm for me.

[crazylionator]

I like your mod very much.
But can you add support to another mods? I playing game with Bob's mods and there are Big poles MK2, MK3. They have longer distance.

[xiaohong]

Really like the mod Choumiko.

The license is TBD for your mod.I am planning to make my own mod that is about trains, can I use you code? It will not be a clone of your mod, focused on a whole different area, but automated rail laying will be useful in my mod.

Suggestion, I have played a lot with your mod and one of the parts that is really annoying is when I want to connect back to an existing track with FARL, its really hard to aim/align to the existing track. An Idea that could partially mitigate the problem would be to add a laser guild that could be placed at the start/end of the track, an object that shoots a laser guild in one direction for a long distance, this way we will have more time to aim for the track. Something like a buildcraft landmark:



It would probably be really easy to add, just an entity with a really long sprite, and would make life much easier. Then again this might already be in another mod.

[Choumiko]

Really like the mod Choumiko.

The license is TBD for your mod.I am planning to make my own mod that is about trains, can I use you code? It will not be a clone of your mod, focused on a whole different area, but automated rail laying will be useful in my mod.
It would probably be really easy to add, just an entity with a really long sprite, and would make life much easier. Then again this might already be in another mod.

Feel free to use it, though you might want to hold off a bit, since i'm rewriting the rail laying part, to be better/support parallel curves and stuff. Licencse for the code is MIT or something similar, reason for tbd is: not sure what license the sprite has to be, since it's merely a recolored vanilla loco..

I guess a custom rail piece with an added lang colorful line should do it. When 0.13 is out and the better rail pathfinding is accessible via API , FARL is gonna learn to do it automatically for sure

[kinnom]

you should wait with the curves until 0.13, as it will have more types of curve

[MightyMike]

Is it possible to add a "'demolition derby" mode that picks everything up you drive thru, somewhat like the maintenance mode but then picking up everything. Just in case you want to build a train track thru the middle of you base of solar farm?

[waduk]

Plopping new train station for FARL, then this happened :

Pic

I guess it's meant to be.
I keep the name
It's an honor.

[DutchJer]

hi choumiko,

I know a bit of coding, and i was wondering is it hard to make it work with different poles, poles like bobs mods higher tier poles, or for example the concrete lamppost, so my rails are nice and lit up.

[Factorio2016]

you can cut down the forest with the help of robots? staying inside the train.
a lot of laid railway tracks, but little time has passed. not realistic

[Choumiko]

you can cut down the forest with the help of robots? staying inside the train.
a lot of laid railway tracks, but little time has passed. not realistic

If i understand you right you want robots to cut trees/place the rails?
Thought about this a while ago (https://github.com/Choumiko/FARL/issues/34) and the possible issues seem to become more and more whenver i think about it again. It would be really cool i guess.