[GUIDE] Level Creating and Modding

[Milaha]

How hard would it be to add something to fill all of the turrets on the map with ammo at the start of the game? Looking at making a custom map now, but the prospect of manually filling all the enemy turrets is.... daunting.

[kovarex]

You could do it using script, It would just search all entities at the start of the game.
It would just add the ammo to all turrets.
I can write the sample here if you want to.

Another thing would be to add copy/paste in the editor (even for larger structures, more buildings)

[ficolas]

How do I assign items ID?
where is the file to do that?
Error in assignID "nameoftheitem" not recognized as id of item

[kovarex]

Items are defines in data/prototype-definitions/items

[ficolas]

Weird, I alredy placed the file there...

Edit: Capital letters... Fixed it.

[ficolas]

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Content Title
Sprite "C:/Program
Files\Factorio\data\resources\icons/electric-furnace.png" couldn't be loaded

... why? D:

[kovarex]

Do you have the file there?
(Every item needs to have icon picture)

[FreeER]

perhaps this should be obvious but how do you fix the "Unknown key:"entity-name.iron-furnace" (on gui and when you hover over the entity)
As is fairly obvious I'm creating an iron furnace right now (currently is 2x as fast but is more wasteful on coal). I'd rather like for the name to show up as Iron Furnace rather than entity-name.whatever however So far that is my only problem

P.S. I didn't think this question warranted it's own topic so I figured I'd post in this one.

[kovarex]

You need to add the value into locale/<language>/entity-name.cfg
<code>
iron-furnace=Iron furnace
</code>

[ficolas]

yes, electric furnace.png is there, im sure :S

[kovarex]

yes, electric furnace.png is there, im sure :S

Are you sure the file name is correct?, as you wrote electric furnace.png (with space).
Note, that it is also case sensitive.

[ficolas]

the problem was that I named it electric-furnace.png, when I removed the .png it worked.

And also, for the lua stuff, for example, the "insert" function, what is the ussage?

insert( type,name,position,health,force,readablename,name,count)??

And how do I get the player position?
and to use onunitdied, I do
table=onunitdied() ?
and like so I can do
if table[name]==creeper then
and so?

[kovarex]

And also, for the lua stuff, for example, the "insert" function, what is the ussage?

insert( type,name,position,health,force,readablename,name,count)??

You are probably reffering to the create entity function:
https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... eateentity

And how do I get the player position?

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  game.getplayer().position

and to use onunitdied, I do
table=onunitdied() ?
and like so I can do
if table[name]==creeper then
and so?

You can do:

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game.onevent = function(event)
  if event.name == "onunitdied" and 
     event.unit == "creeper" then
    game.getplayer().print("You just killed creeper hooray")
  end
end

[ficolas]

No, im refering to the insert, to add items to an entity (I want to add items to the player), and can to make the code be for all the games, in freeplay, in campaigns, etc. I should place the lua script in the lualib?

[kovarex]

It is not possible to create code for all types of games now.

Inserting example is in the lualib/freeplay.lua:

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game.getplayer().insert{name="iron-plate", count=8}
game.getplayer().insert{name="pistol", count=1}
game.getplayer().insert{name="basic-bullet-magazine", count=10}

[ficolas]

Well, at least I can modify the freeplay.lua, but the freeplay.lua is ejecuted once or its beeing ejecuted all the time?
I added this to the end of the freeplay but it is not working

if event.name == "onunitdied" then
glob.player.insert{name = "small-alien-artifact", count = 1}
end

[rk84]

Well, at least I can modify the freeplay.lua, but the freeplay.lua is ejecuted once or its beeing ejecuted all the time?
I added this to the end of the freeplay but it is not working

if event.name == "onunitdied" then
glob.player.insert{name = "small-alien-artifact", count = 1}
end

Is it inside game.onevent -function? Have you defined glob.player?

[ficolas]

Well, at least I can modify the freeplay.lua, but the freeplay.lua is ejecuted once or its beeing ejecuted all the time?
I added this to the end of the freeplay but it is not working

if event.name == "onunitdied" then
coun=math.random(1,5)
glob.player.insert{name = "small-alien-artifact", count = coun}
end

Is it inside game.onevent -function? Have you defined glob.player?

glob.player is alredy. defined in freeplay, and I didnt put it inside game.onevent function, just at the end of the code

Also, I dont know why but I cant make the shadows of furnaces in photoshop, how can I make them?

[kovarex]

Yes, you need to put it inside the function


Btw, your code will add it directly to the player inventory, even if your turret (or anybody else) kills creeper on the other side of map.
You can also specify what entity drops when it is killed by adding this to the entity definition in json:

You can even add more values there, and all are applied, this example is from enemy spawner

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"loot":
    [
      {
        "item": "alien-artifact",
        "probability": 1,
        "count-min": 2,
        "count-max": 10
      }
    ],

[ficolas]

Aaah that exists! lol
I tried adding a resource entity to the corpse, but that didnt work

Also, can I create a furnace-like machine (something that converts X into Y using Z) without modifing any non lua/json file?
I dont think I can do it with lua, because is almost only for events but maybe with the json creating a new type or something??