[MOD 0.13] Wagon Capacity Color

[binbinhfr]

Infos

• Type: Mod
• Name: Wagon Capacity Color
• Description: Change the color of the wagon, whether it's empty or partially filled.
• Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.13.0
• Multiplayer compatible: tested on a headless server...
• Locale: none
• Tags: wagon, color.
• License: You are free to use and distribute this mod and also to modify it for personal use, but not to release a modified version without permission (unless visibly not maintained anymore).
• Portal download : https://mods.factorio.com/mods/binbinhf ... acityColor

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NOTES

When installed on an existing map, the mod take a little time to scan the map, searching for existing wagons.
The mod does work only on any wagons that have an inventory (so not on rail tanker...).

[Otterbear]

I love the idea of this mod but, I can't help but be bothered by the color arrangement. lol

Red is typically a Warning color, and green is typically a "all is well" color.
IMHO, the color scheme of this mod is reversed.

Can this be changed in the Lua file?

[binbinhfr]

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Red is typically a Warning color, and green is typically a "all is well" color.

Yes, you are perfectly right :
- Red is for : warning this wagon must be emptied as fast as possible
- Green is for : everything is OK with this wagon that is ready to be filled.

So, you see that it depends on where you see the problem.

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Can this be changed in the Lua file?

But you can edit the config.lua file for this
Or even if you are daltonian.

[Nexela]

Yes, you are perfectly right :
- Red is for : warning this wagon must be emptied as fast as possible
- Green is for : everything is OK with this wagon that is ready to be filled.

Well now I need to wipe up the coffee I spilled on the floor after I read this....

[binbinhfr]

As my wife says, everything depends on what side of your brain you are using the most.
Presuming that both parts are not empty.
Eeasy to detect: these are colored in green !

[Otterbear]

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Red is typically a Warning color, and green is typically a "all is well" color.

Yes, you are perfectly right :
- Red is for : warning this wagon must be emptied as fast as possible
- Green is for : everything is OK with this wagon that is ready to be filled.

So, you see that it depends on where you see the problem.

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Can this be changed in the Lua file?

But you can edit the config.lua file for this
Or even if you are daltonian.

Thanks Binbinhfr! *I realize that not all people use their brain correctly(as I do). (I just wanted to know if I could FIX this error in the Lua file.)

[binbinhfr]

Thanks Binbinhfr! *I realize that not all people use their brain correctly(as I do). (I just wanted to know if I could FIX this error in the Lua file.)

Yes, as I told you, you can edit the config.lua and inverse colors, or even choose other colors if you want something more funky. You have the right to be different !

[Otterbear]

I saw that. I just had to respond to your humorous remarks. * You made me laugh, I just wanted to return the favor.

[binbinhfr]

I saw that. I just had to respond to your humorous remarks. * You made me laugh, I just wanted to return the favor.

Yes, afterall even if it's a serious game, we're here for having fun

[Faark]

Love the mod but it doesn't scale that well on / isn't optimized for larger games. In my save this mod takes about 1.3ms, nearly 10% of total time available when targeting 60fps. In comparison, Bottleneck does kind of the same function for production facilities of which i have at least 25 times as many, but only takes around 0.4ms.

The easiest optimization might be to only update a limited number of wagons per tick, though i wonder if we can find more creative approaches. Like not updating trains that are moving or outside of stations, but a player might still interact with them. I also don't like the idea of that inner loop potentially doing the same check 40 times for a full wagon containing a single item type. Have you considered iterating over inventory.get_contents() instead of inventory slots? The following seems to cuts my time down to less than 0.1ms.

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local function update_wagon_color(wagon)
	local invent = wagon.get_inventory(1)
	if invent then
		if invent.is_empty() then
			wagon.color = color_empty
		else
			for key, cnt in pairs(invent.get_contents()) do
				if invent.can_insert(key) then
					wagon.color = color_partial
					return
				end
			end
			wagon.color = color_full 
		end
	else
		wagon.color = {}
	end
end

[darkfrei]

Can it recolor locomotive for resources inside wagons? Iron is blue, copper is red, stone is gray, uranium is green, empty - do nothing.

[binbinhfr]

Love the mod but it doesn't scale that well on / isn't optimized for larger games.

Hi. I integrated your optimized code.

Can it recolor locomotive for resources inside wagons? Iron is blue, copper is red, stone is gray, uranium is green, empty - do nothing.

Well I use wagon for a lot of other items, not only for resources... And a train can contain diffents wagons with different items type per wagon. So it would be a big check routine to determinate a unique locomotive color. I won't do it.

[tazdu29]

Can it recolor locomotive for resources inside wagons? Iron is blue, copper is red, stone is gray, uranium is green, empty - do nothing.

Just press alt instead ! You'll see the resources' icons over the wagons

[binbinhfr]

updated 0.16

[DukeAl]

Hi,
i wonder why after such a long time of 0.17 being out no one asked for an update for this great mod.
So, would it possible to update it to 0.17 ?

[markzl]

If you want to update it just unzip it (it'll create a subfolder on its own thats already in the zip) then change the line:
"factorio_version": "0.16",

into

"factorio_version": "1.1",

...save the file, leave the folder there & delete the original zip. This works on most mods - including minecraft mods.