0.13 Lua API documentation preview

[Oxyd]

Let's fuel the hype train a little, shall we? We just uploaded a preview of the 0.13 Lua API documentation for your previewing pleasures.

Obviously the API may still change between now and actual 0.13.0 release, but the changes should be reasonably small. Hopefully this preview will answer some questions about mod compatibility in 0.13 and the requred changes.

[ArderBlackard]

Thanks a lot! So many things to discover!

[Adil]

Are we getting the prototypes documentation someday?

[Oxyd]

Are we getting the prototypes documentation someday?

Hopefully, but not soon. Like I already said quite a few times here, prototype documentation is a big task that will take quite a lot of effort.

[DedlySpyder]

This is all I need to hold me over (well, I would love prerelease patch notes, but I understand not giving them to us)

[AutoMcD]

ooh, that is a juicy link. I'm just getting started with a mod and had no idea about that site.. I'm still finding documentation about all the knobs to tweak difficult.

[golfmiketango]

http://lua-api.factorio.com/0.13.0-prev ... rk.signals! yaay!

[Afforess]

Thanks for publishing this.

[doc]

The control behaviours seem really really interesting.

Now that this part of the engine has been abstracted, is there any chance that some day we might be able to override which control behaviour exists on an entity? Or even have an entity with multiple control behaviours?

As an example, what if I create some new type of chest which performs a function when something is inserted into it. But I also want this chest to have an on/off circuit control behaviour so the player can choose when they want the chest's function to be switched on? (Real example from the mod I'm working on.)

[Adil]

Will the on_entity_settings_pasted when blueprints are placed?

[doc]

Will the on_entity_settings_pasted when blueprints are placed?

It sounds like it's only for shift-right-click shift-left-click operations. When planting a blueprint, there isn't a source/destination pair - the original entities the blueprint was taken from might no longer exist!

[Rseding91]

The control behaviours seem really really interesting.

Now that this part of the engine has been abstracted, is there any chance that some day we might be able to override which control behaviour exists on an entity? Or even have an entity with multiple control behaviours?

The control behavior system still requires that the implementing entity be coded to implement that behavior in the C++ class for that entity.

As an example, what if I create some new type of chest which performs a function when something is inserted into it. But I also want this chest to have an on/off circuit control behaviour so the player can choose when they want the chest's function to be switched on? (Real example from the mod I'm working on.)

No, that wouldn't be possible with how it works now.