[MOD 0.15.x] Shield Pulse

[Ranakastrasz]

Shield Pulse

Description:

• This is a simple mod that displays a shield animation when you take damage and as your shield charges.
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Details:

• Factorio Version: 0.15
• Released: July 28th 2015
• License: MIT License
• Tags: Shield,Animation,Graphics
  

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LONG DESCRIPTION

A shield barrier flares up when you take damage, and then pulses, growing until it fully recharges.
Can look wrong in multiplayer if latency is high.

TODO

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To Do
- get sphere animation to work.
- Figure out how to better display shield charge from animation
- Figure out how to show shield is not charging at all.
- Latency Hiding

CHANGLOG

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15.1.2: 5/29/17:Multiplayer Fix
15.1.1: 5/18/17:Fixed Null grid validation
15.1.0: 5/4/17:Update for V15.
0.0.1:Initial Release.

[sporefreak]

Pictures really are important. a lot of people won't touch mods without pictures. (Myself included)
Some mods don't need pictures, (Like something that just speeds up vanilla buildings.
Basically, anything with any visual change should have pictures

[Ranakastrasz]

Added a video demo. It isn't that good, but it should help at least.

[LuziferSenpai]

Pls fix a Bug:

In the info.json is the Version 0.1.0 and not 0.0.1 ^^

Greetz,

Senpai

[Ranakastrasz]

It was already fixed.

[Ranakastrasz]

V15.1.0
Updated for V15.

Unfortunately, my clever plan of using the new sticker mechanic failed because stickers don't support players or latency hiding yet.

[Darloth]

I got a crash bug with this but sadly I could not reproduce it.

I have a lot of mods installed.

Here's the things I was doing at the time. Doing the same things after loading an autosave didn't seem to cause the problem to reoccur, sadly.

• While having no armour at all, building a light armour.
• Standing on a belt full of iron plates holding down F (which is also bound as the shortcut for autofill for me) to scoop things up.
• Passing under an inserter taking the plates off the belt and into a chest.

Under these conditions I got an error from shield pulse saying that grid was null, just about the time the new armour finished building. Not entirely sure what was happening but somehow it seems to have tried to query for a shield in an armour that can't have one, and crashed.

[Ranakastrasz]

Ugh. Still?

Why did they have to change the API again?.....

Will look into it.

[Ranakastrasz]

Could you send me the save? Assuming you are using Version 15.1.0, i don't see how that could have happened.

[Darloth]

well with the latest version of the mod in the latest version of Factorio I get the grid error reliably on every load of the save I'm about to link you.

I think it's because you're checking grid.valid but haven't checked if grid itself is a null reference, on line 107 of control.lua.

[Darloth]

Indeed, changing line 107 to:

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                    if (grid ~= nil) and (grid.valid) then -- Check for grid existence.

has fixed the problem for me.

Now if dropbox would kindly hurry up with uploading the save, I'd gladly send it over...

[Ranakastrasz]

Seriously?

Weird. I don't get the issue on my end, but maybe it has to do with other factors.

I mean, I run the game, add light-armor. and nothing goes wrong. Not really sure what is going on there. The validation I use gets rid of the crash for me, but apperently other factors exist.

Thing is, they reciently changed the API involved, so I had to rewrite the validation, so I am not hugely surprised.

[Darloth]

Well here's the link to the save, see if it works for you?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q045h4eyhs2pb ... s.zip?dl=0

[Ranakastrasz]

Getting an error trying to download.

[Ranakastrasz]

V15.1.1
Fixed that null-grid error, probably.

thing is, I can't reproduce it, so I have no idea what causes it. as such, It might not be a functional fix.