[MOD 0.17]AE Industries Sentry Guns

[MnHebi]

Description:
Presenting to you the Automated Extermination Industries Sentry Guns. As of now we can offer you the Series 352 Automated Sentry Gun, that fires 10x28mm explosive tipped caseless rounds. Craftable with the most basic materials, these completely automated sentry guns can turn 90 degrees to either left, or right of their initial facing. Their magazines hold 100 cartridges each, however bear in mind they will deplete them quickly as they fire 18.3 rounds a second, and their range is rather short, they are designed for defending key locations. Do not deploy these units behind walls or other objects that may block their line of fire, they will hit them.

Cartridges which hold the rounds, and magazines are crafted separately. Cartridges, and magazines are not compatible with other turrets, and cannot be outfitted into handheld weaponry.

Thanks to darkfrei for providing the Blender render scenes & various other help that led to the creation of this mod.
Thanks to Arch666Angel for the icon for wood breadboard circuit(sourced from viewtopic.php?f=15&t=40923#p241737 )
Thanks to Bilka for providing technical assistance
Thanks to Boodals for providing technical assistance

Bear in mind there might be some bugs.

Details:

• Name:AE Industries Sentry Guns
• Latest Release:v1.1.1 July 4th 2019
• Factorio Version: 0.17
• Download: Here

Changelog

V. 1.0.1
-Initial release
-Introduced series 352 automated sentry gun
-Introduced sentry box magazine
-Introduced 10x28mm caseless cartridge

V. 1.0.2
-Fixed missing localization for series 352 automated sentry gun turret damage bonus.
-Fixed series 352 automated sentry gun recipe not showing statistics by removing recipe description from locale.
-Fixed sentry box magazine recipe not showing statistics by removing recipe description from locale.
-Corrected oversight that mod did not modify bullet damage technologies to give series 352 automated sentry gun damage modifier bonus from those technologies.

V. 1.0.3
-Corrected series 352 automated sentry gun recipe for Bob's mods so it is not locked behind beyond starting technologies. Exchanged electronic circuits for basic circuit boards.
Checks for presence of Bob's electronics to activate the recipe.

V. 1.0.4
-Fixed bug with sentry box magazine only having 1 damage type when two were intended.
-Buffed physical damage to 1.5 from 1.

V. 1.0.5
-Hopefully fixed load bug when HR graphics are activated, base graphic west HR version had direction count specification when none is needed.

V. 1.0.6
-HR graphics now load, still some minor alignment issues with the muzzle flare.

V. 1.0.7
-Finalized sentry gun HR version alignment.
-Tweaked muzzle flare location.
-To match muzzle flare locations on low res sprites with the high res sprites, the low res sprites were doubled in size. NOTE: Collision box has changed! Existing saves with these turrets placed might have oddities!
-Increased icon sizes to 128x128 from 32x32. Also removed shadows from them to match stock Factorio.
-Corrected sentry box magazine icon so the ammo box has same color as on the sentry.
-It is noted that with current size the 352 automated sentry gun is now larger than the Factorio gun turret. AE Industries will wait for Factorio 0.17 before making decisions about making a mod to replace them.

V. 1.0.8
-Updated for 0.17
-Recipe for 10x28mm cartridge, changed from raw wood to wood due to raw wood not existing anymore in base.

V. 1.0.9
-Updated technology modifications so sentry gun & 10x28mm cartridge get relevant bonuses from physical projectile damage bonus technologies.
-Added compatibility for Rampant Arsenal, where turret damage bonuses are in a separate tech from physical projectile technology.

V.1.1.0
-Fixed Rampant arsenal compatibility when vanilla techs are not enabled, internal name physical-projectile-damage was changed to rampant-arsenal-technology-bullet-damage
-Added check for Rampant arsenal startup setting Unhide vanilla damage technologies value so Rampant Arsenal compatibility is not used if vanilla technologies are enabled.
-Added settings that allows you to specify if you want to start with a certain amount of series 352 automated sentry guns, and sentry box magazines. By default these settings are not enabled.
You must first tick a box in "Startup" mod settings to allow these items to spawn. Then in "Map" mod settings you can modify the number. Default is 4 sentry guns, and 4 magazines. Maximum value is 50 sentries and 100 magazines.

V. 1.1.1
-Added a tweak to the series 352 automated sentry gun recipe if Pyanodons Petroleum Handling is present. Previously it required 4 Small Parts to assemble, now only 2.
-Added new item "Wood Breadboard". series 352 automated sentry gun recipe now requires 1 wood breadboard, and one electronic circuit. Wood breadboard costs 1 wood, and 2 copper cable to assemble.
This change was done to cheapen the recipe in mods where circuits are expensive time or material wise. And lore wise, the turning mechanism of the sentry gun "head" does not need any advanced circuitry.
Bob's Electronics recipe remains unchanged however.
-Tweaked 10x28mm caseless cartridge recipe. You now get 4 cartridges each crafting cycle. This was done so sentries are easier to maintain.

To-Do

-Series 613 automated sentry gun, armed with twin miniguns, additional armoring on the front in form of steel plates.
-Some kind of HMG that can use the 10x28mm caseless cartridge in its magazine.
-Maybe make another early game sentry that uses boiling water as weaponry? Basically a burner level sentry gun, requiring nothing but coal, and water.

[Sworn]

Nice work!

If possible, add a check to bob, angel, pyaddon mods, if they are present, reduce the circuit level required, otherwise it became late tech .

I think you need to look only for bobs, as angel and pyaddon work on top of it

[MnHebi]

as angel and pyaddon work on top of it

Well Pyanodon also works totally solo these days. But I'll look into that Bob's recipe change.

[edit]And as of now V 1.0.3 is on the mod portal that alters the recipe on the presence of Bob's Electronics so it requires basic circuit boards.

[Sworn]

Sup! Thanks

[MnHebi]

The HR graphics now load, there are still some issues with the muzzle flare positioning but that will take me a while to sort out...very hard to look how off it is when you are being attacked by biters.

[edit]Come next version the bug with multiple muzzle flare graphics is fixed, and the muzzle flare is properly aligned. Also, low res sprites will be revised to be twice the size they are now.

[MnHebi]

Just to update, I am working on the next version of the mod with two additional Sentry Guns, but atm I am fighting Blender on how to get the "mask" parts on the models to render without anything else being visible except their shadows on the mask parts(everything else but mask should be transparent but still cast a shadow like they were there so the mask is shaded properly). These "mask" parts are needed to get the Sentry Guns to color certain parts of themselves according to which player they belong to just like the Factorio Gun Turret.

[Deadlock989]

Just to update, I am working on the next version of the mod with two additional Sentry Guns, but atm I am fighting Blender on how to get the "mask" parts on the models to render without anything else being visible except their shadows on the mask parts(everything else but mask should be transparent but still cast a shadow like they were there so the mask is shaded properly). These "mask" parts are needed to get the Sentry Guns to color certain parts of themselves according to which player they belong to just like the Factorio Gun Turret.

I do it by turning on the MaterialIndex pass and giving the material on the colourable part of the turret a specific index, and then masking it off and outputting a separate file in the compositor.