[MOD 0.14-1.0]Helmod: Assistant to plan its base.

[Helfima]

Helmod: Assistant to plan its base.
Assistant to plan its base. calculates the needs, resources, factories, beacon or electric power.

tutorial en francais: https://youtu.be/zrdLD2QOA0w

@see MOD and description: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Helfima/helmod
@see for help: click on help icon

@issues: https://github.com/Helfima/helmod/issues

the last version is build for 0.15.x

production line

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production block

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recipe selector

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recipe edition

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summary

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resources

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pinned block

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options

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Sample for balancing oil
See the number in the screen
1) you must use Product field in recipe edition and set production ratio
-ligth oil = 0.4
-Heavy oil = 0.17
-Refined = 1
2) the light oil recipe produce 40% of required gas
the Heavy oil recipe produce 17% of required ligth oil
the refine recipe produce 100% of required Heavy oil
3) the production of refine is consumed for the rest
4) when the are few products in a recipe my mod always balances the recipe

balancing oil

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[Helfima]

Version 0.2.0 commited and wiki updated with the change

[Helfima]

arf i had removed icon file
i have commited quick fix version 0.2.1

[Nexela]

From the mod portal post:

In addition to the config option defaulting to off also do something like this so that even if the speed portion is enabled if time-tools is present it will be hidden

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in function PlayerController.methods:init()

       --Don't create time controls if TimeTools mod is installed.
       --Clutterfree GUI
       if game and not game.active_mods["TimeTools"] then
               self.controllers["speed-controller"] = SpeedController:new(self)
       end

Also would love a 32x32 icon for the gui.top part instead of the text button

Thanks

[apriori]

russian locale

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helmod_speed-menu-down=<
helmod_speed-menu=x1
helmod_speed-menu-up=>
helmod_planner-command=Планировщик

[helmod_common]
block=Блок
blocks=Блоки
recipe=Рецепт
recipes=Рецепты
ingredients=Ингредиенты
products=Продукты
beacon=Маяк
beacons=Маяки
factory=Фабрика
factories=Фабрики
resources=Ресурсы
module=Модуль
modules=Модули
version=Версия
input=Ввод
output=Выход
quantity=Колич.
generator=Эл.генератор
generators=Эл.генераторы

[helmod_button]
save=Сохр.
add=Добав.
update=Обновить
apply=Применить
options=Настройки
refresh=Обновить
close=Закрыть

[helmod_label]
electrical-consumption=Энергопотребление:
block-number=Номер блока:
limit=Макс/блок
energy-nominal=Станд.потребление
speed-nominal=Станд.скорость
module-slots=Слоты модулей
energy=Энергия
speed=Скорость

[helmod_product-edition-panel]
title=Редактирование продукции

[helmod_recipe-edition-panel]
title=Редактирование рецепта
current-modules=Активные модули
selection-modules=Модули

[helmod_settings-panel]
title=Настройки
base-time=Время
data-section=Таблица
model-section=Модель
about-section=Инфо
data-col-index=Показывать индекс колонки
data-col-level=Показывать уровень колонки
data-col-id=Показывать ИД колонки
data-col-name=Показывать имя колонки
data-col-weight=Показывать ширину колонки
model-auto-compute=Автовычисление
model-loop-limit=Лимит цикла
mod-version=Версия мода
model-filter-factory=Фильтровать по фабрике
model-filter-beacon=Фильтровать по маяку

[helmod_result-panel]
back-button-production-line=Назад к произв.линии
add-button-production-block=Добавить произв.блок
add-button-recipe=Добавить рецепт
row-button-delete=X
row-button-up=<
row-button-down=>
tab-button-data=Инф.
tab-button-production-line=Производственная линия
tab-button-disabled-recipes=Запретить рецепты (__1__)
tab-button-resources=Ресурсы
tab-button-summary=В целом
tab-title-data=Инфо
tab-title-production-line=Производственная линия
tab-title-production-block=Производственный блок
tab-title-disabled-recipes=Запрещ.рецепты
tab-title-resources=Ресурсы
tab-title-energy=Энергия
tab-title-summary=В целом
col-header-index=Индекс
col-header-action=Действие
col-header-level=Уровень
col-header-weight=Ширина
col-header-id=ИД
col-header-name=Имя
col-header-recipe=Рецепт
col-header-factory=Фабрика
col-header-extractor=Добытчик
col-header-beacon=Маяк
col-header-energy=Энергия
col-header-products=Продукция
col-header-ingredients=Ингредиенты
col-header-ingredient=Ингредиент
col-header-total=Всего
col-header-type=Тип
col-header-input=Ввод
col-header-output=Выход
col-header-production-block=Блок

[Helfima]

@apriori: locale added for v0.14 i mean our source file is not full and check the file https://github.com/Helfima/helmod

[apriori]

Most locale entries for UI can be found in "Factorio\data\core\locale\".

[Helfima]

It is not false
but now I do not think adding more translation, you made me a base and the last few I made by myself and another personne on github i have help me
thank

i have update the first message

[Jupiter]

Hej Helfima,

I love your mod. I am planning out my first base with it and I thought of some suggestions.
It would be handy if you would show how many belts (user picks which kind) I need to transport all my good around. With your mod I calculated that I need 9.5k of green circuits per min but then I had to go to the factorio wiki and look up the capacity of a blue belt to calculate how many belts that is.
Maybe you can show similar numbers regarding bots. Like the number of jobs generated per time or so.

The number of factories a single beacon reaches in a production block is kind of useless right now. This is because the resulting number of beacon never actually matches what you will need in practice.
For example. If a have a single row of assemblers next to a row of beacons, then every factory is reached by 4 beacons and every beacon reaches 4 assemblers but you still have as many beacons as you have assemblers. Of course the ends of the line are different but that's okay.
You can even say that every assembler will be reached by, say, 8 beacons but if you need just a little bit of production the mod actually predicts you will need less than 8 beacons. I understand why this happens but it isn't useful and just weird.

Oil derivatives are a bit awkward right now because refining has multiple outputs and there are 2 different recipes for LO and gas (refining and cracking). This pattern doesn't really fit the system you've built so maybe you can treat oil derivatives as a special case and handle them differently in the UI so users can specify that gas will come partly from refining AND from cracking the LO by-product. And LO will come partly from refining and from cracking HO which also comes from that same refining process. Or maybe you can give the user a choice as to whether they want to crack the by products or not.
You could pack all this stuff in a special kind of product block I think.

[Helfima]

@Jupiter

1) Transport by belt, robot, train, we have lot of container, perhaps is better to add a new tab for that

2) For the ratio factory/beacon is important for the power calculation and the combo is even more important, it's for ingredients calculation
for me i have factory/beacon = [1.1,1.3] perhaps for other template is 1

3) for oil, i have try few solutions but i have use a new property, Production property is the ratio of ingredients consumption and it can use for other

i know is not perfect but you can estimate the necessary

see this sample

Light oil cracking to petroleum gas

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Heavy oil cracking to light oil

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Advanced oil processing

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[Jupiter]

@Jupiter

1) Transport by belt, robot, train, we have lot of container, perhaps is better to add a new tab for that

would love that

2) For the ratio factory/beacon is important for the power calculation and the combo is even more important, it's for ingredients calculation
for me i have factory/beacon = [1.1,1.3] perhaps for other template is 1

First of all, I don't think we were talking about the same number. Because I thought that this number is the number of factories that each beacon can reach (perhaps on average), not the actual ratio of factories per beacon per ce. But it seems you meant the latter (which makes more sense actually). If that's the case then this works actually very well if you assume that the player designs his product build designs to be tileable (which I do). The player puts in the data about his blueprints (by supplying this ratio) and you tell him how many times he needs to stamp it.
Things are clicking in my mind

3) for oil, i have try few solutions but i have use a new property, Production property is the ratio of ingredients consumption and it can use for other

i know is not perfect but you can estimate the necessary

see this sample

Light oil cracking to petroleum gas

2016-09-16_185117.png

Heavy oil cracking to light oil

2016-09-16_185244.png

Advanced oil processing

2016-09-16_185257.png

Ah, I was actually wondering what that production number was for. But now I know. That is actually quit a nice solution even though it needs a little bit more thinking on the users side (for figuring out this percentage).
Is it also possible to specify that the remaining LO or gas will be used for solid fuel (and rocket fuel subsequently)? I ask because I noticed in your example that you would have some left-over LO which I assumed you would be using for solid fuel. You also had some left over gas which you've might used for acid.

[Helfima]

i have put a new version for 0.13 and 0.14

I have change the number of element, now is before icon
I have change the recipe edition
I have added the rest of products
and other

now we can see percent production in the list

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[Mechanical]

I'm currently using version 0.2.13 of Helmod with version 0.14.10 of Factorio.

What does the number for product represent?

When I want to input an amount for a final product, for instance Science Pack 3, I want it to produce 1 per second. I'm using Assembler 2s, and input an amount of 15 to achieve this. The results is it recommends I build 4 Assembler 2s. In order to get it to recommend 15 Assembler 2s, I must input a the number 53.

[Helfima]

I have push new version

Add 1s base time
Add scroll on recipe selector panel
Moved main panel in center gui

I'm currently using version 0.2.13 of Helmod with version 0.14.10 of Factorio.

What does the number for product represent?

When I want to input an amount for a final product, for instance Science Pack 3, I want it to produce 1 per second. I'm using Assembler 2s, and input an amount of 15 to achieve this. The results is it recommends I build 4 Assembler 2s. In order to get it to recommend 15 Assembler 2s, I must input a the number 53.

if u have few same productions with different recipes, the fisrt recipe produce for all ingredients and the next produce 0.
if u set for the first recipe Production = 0.5, the second recipe produce for the reste ect...
in recipe edition u can change machine, click on icon
new i have add 1s base time

Science Pack 3

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[Durabys]

I have a problem. The newest version is borked. The window is 'moved' to the side so much that I cannot move the mouse to close it by clicking on its close button.

[Helfima]

I have a problem. The newest version is borked. The window is 'moved' to the side so much that I cannot move the mouse to close it by clicking on its close button.

normaly the top button close window
could you give me your display size? if it's under 1600*900 u can i have a problem, with screen shot is better
but u can change display % in game options

[Durabys]

I have a problem. The newest version is borked. The window is 'moved' to the side so much that I cannot move the mouse to close it by clicking on its close button.

normaly the top button close window
could you give me your display size? if it's under 1600*900 u can i have a problem, with screen shot is better
but u can change display % in game options

The problem happens if you have UI scale set above 100% in the graphics setting. I have a 1920×1080 BENQ display.

[Gecko]

Holy Sh***, Sir your mod is severely under-rated!! It's purely awesome!! Thank you very much for integrating all my printed excel tables and my calc into the actual game.

[Kamikatze]

Hi,

first of all: great mod! (the first tool i found, that supports productivity module calculations)
second: it doesn't allow me to put productivity modules in mining drills even though it is possible

Edit: I'm using the Advanced Drills mod and i can select the new drills, but it doesn't change the properties automatically.

Also there is no field to enter the Mining Power which affects the time it takes to mine something:

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(Mining power - Mining hardness) * Mining speed / Mining time = Production rate (in resource/sec)

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Mining time / ((Mining power - Mining hardness) * Mining speed) = Seconds for one resource item

[Gecko]

As I stated earlier, your mod is awesome! After excessively using the mod to plan, I encountered a behavior I can't approve and would kindly ask you to fix. Please refer to the picture below for annotations in brackets.

The calculation of the oil stuff doesn't take in account the surplus of it's intermediate steps(arrows + question mark). Further testing is required to see if this is the case for other intermediate products, too.

Although I at least tried to put it in the right order,

• The surplus light oil (1a) from the initial advanced oil processing is not used in the step for light oil->gas (1b).

• The same goes for (2) respectively. Only the products of the step before are taken into account for calculation of the current step. (see 3 and 4).

• The calculation is right, but there are still 31 light oil (see 1a) left to be converted to gas by the concerning step (arrow pointing left).

• Also there are 35 gas (2) and 31 light oil (1) left for converting to batteries. This would lower the requirement for Refineries (arrow pointing right) significantly.

Maybe you are willing to fix this, maybe not.
Either way it's not on me to tell you how to implement this but I can tell you what my approach would be: An if-case to check if the *output* items can be reused again in any step starting from the bottom until every item in the *output* is not used in any intermediate step.

Thanks for reading!
Kind regards, Gecko

Illustrating Picture

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