[MOD 0.17x] Flare

[Ranakastrasz]

Flare
Description:

• Adds a Flare Capsule, which provides significant amounts of light for 2 minutes after throwing. Intended for night fighting early on.
  Demo Video

Details:

• Factorio Version: 0.17
• Released: June 14th 2016
• License: MIT License
• Tags: Capsule,Light
  

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LONG DESCRIPTION

Throws a modified Poison capsule that does no damage, and instead just provides constant light for 2 minutes after landing, before vanishing.

TODO

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To Do
-Add custom graphic
-Figure out how to prevent the landed capsule from moving around.

CHANGLOG

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17.1.0: 4/13Updated for Factorio v0.17
16.1.0: 12/19 Updated for Factorio v0.16
15.1.0: 4/27 Updated for Factorio v0.15
14.0.3: Updated for Factorio v0.14
0.0.2: Updated for Factorio v0.13
0.0.1: Initial Release

[British_Petroleum]

Cool, i think other players will like this, but i don't like the night so i usually disable night time in console.

[sporefreak]

Wow! What a great idea! Almost jealous I didn't think of it myself
I will probably using a modified version of this when I decide to do a play through again!

[Ranakastrasz]

Wow! What a great idea! Almost jealous I didn't think of it myself
I will probably using a modified version of this when I decide to do a play through again!

Modified? In what way?

[sporefreak]

Wow! What a great idea! Almost jealous I didn't think of it myself
I will probably using a modified version of this when I decide to do a play through again!

Modified? In what way?

Reduced length, Change the recipe, etc.

[Ranakastrasz]

120 seconds is too long? I thought it should last most of a night. And what kind of recipe would you suggest? I pretty much used the same as Agent Orange.

[Ranakastrasz]

Added a short Demo Video.

[thereaverofdarkness]

I saw the video on your youtube channel so I came here.

I think the light entity should have a bright center, much like a real life flare. It's a bit obnoxious to look at, but that's one of the drawbacks of using it.

[Ranakastrasz]

No idea how to do that. If you stack a ton, it barely gets brighter. If you add even the slightest tint, the entire thing becomes opaque. No idea what to do.

If you made a mod of it that does so, I might use it tho.

[sporefreak]

No idea how to do that. If you stack a ton, it barely gets brighter. If you add even the slightest tint, the entire thing becomes opaque. No idea what to do.

If you made a mod of it that does so, I might use it tho.

What if you had the flair spawn a flair entity that had a part of textures glowing look and then normal lighting effects.

[thereaverofdarkness]

No idea how to do that. If you stack a ton, it barely gets brighter.

You need to have two separate entities: one that produces light, and one that looks like a bright white flare. The flare would probably be a textured sprite entity, but would also be partially transparent.

If you add even the slightest tint, the entire thing becomes opaque.

Are you sure you didn't accidentally make it almost completely opaque, and just slightly transparent?

[XBBX]

Cool now we need molotov cocktails

[Peter34]

Cool now we need molotov cocktails

Those are going to rock in alpha 0.13 when fire can spread.

[Ranakastrasz]

Heh. I guess I might as well make a Capsule Pack mod.

Flare Capsule,
Agent Orange.
Fire Grenade.

Any other ideas?
Maybe an Ender Pearl Teleport Grenade. (No idea how to do that)

[thereaverofdarkness]

an upgrade to the basic grenade

a fragmentation grenade which deals physical damage

an iris capsule which shoots long range laser bolts in all directions


I'd like to see these mixed in at all different military research levels based on their strength, material cost, and the technology they use--for instance the iris capsule should be at least military 3 because it uses laser, but it might be powerful enough to go into military 4. And there should be some capsules that you start with, like the flare capsule.

[Ranakastrasz]

v0.0.2:
Updated for Factorio 0.13

[Ranakastrasz]

V14.0.3
Updated for V0.14

[SquarelyCircle]

I'm not sure if I've done something wrong, but I just installed this mod, and it enables flare production from the very beginning (even though it requires a green circuit to produce.

It would be much better if flares didn't show up as craftable until you've done some sort of research.

[SquarelyCircle]

Actually, on second glance, you don't need to do any research to unlock green chips. Still, I like science things, and it would be cool if there was at least a cheap science for researching flares.

[Ranakastrasz]

V15.1.0
Updated for V0.15