How to update the map after modifying the terrain?

[VBMeireles]

I've used lua commands in-game to change a bunch of tiles from water to grass but the maps (the minimap and the "M" overview map) do not reflect the changes. I've tried saving the game, restarting Factorio and loading the game but it still doesn't refresh the maps.

Is it possible?

[FreeER]

I'd think that game.player.force.chart(boundingbox_to_chart) would work (though I haven't had to do this myself), see Wiki Lua/Force, well the wiki doesn't actually have much more to say for that command but...

[VBMeireles]

Thanks. I'll test it ASAP and see if it does work.

[VBMeireles]

It doesn't work. Console says "chart" expected a table but got nil instead.

[n9103]

Did you give it a bounding box?
I imagine it's looking for something like [s](-500, 500, -500, 500);[/s] a table of coordinates.

E: I should bother learning lua at some point.

[FreeER]

It doesn't work. Console says "chart" expected a table but got nil instead.

chart would need to be called with a valid bounding box (nil means it got something with a value equivalent to "no real value here"), I used boundingbox_to_chart as a placeholder (sorry for not making that obvious). I usually use a function like this

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function getbb(position, radius) return {{position.x-radius, position.y-radius}, {position.x+radius, position.y+radius}} end 

to generate a bounding box, so copy/paste that function into Factorio's console and then use game.player.force.chart(getbb(game.player.position, 10))
to chart a box 20 wide by 20 tall (10 in each direction) centered around the player. Or you could manually create the bounding box as {{game.player.position.x-10, game.player.position.y-10},{game.player.position.x+10, game.player.position.y+10}} but... that's very annoying in my opinion especially if I need more than one bounding box .

[VBMeireles]

Awesome. I'll try it with the proper input next time.