[>= 0.17.73] GCKI -- Gizmos Car Keys (improved)

[Pi-C]

I've uploaded the first version of GCKI about a month ago. Now, after fixing some bugs, adding new features, testing, fixing newly introduced bugs, breaking the mod while trying to make it fit for use in multiplayer games, more bugfixing and adding of features, and doing some more testing (thanks to Dragonling for acting as external tester!), I believe the mod is stable enough to present it here.

This mod makes use of some features recently added to Factorio (teleporting cars across surfaces, setting the color of cars, setting weapons control to driver or passenger), so you'll need Factorio 0.17.73 or later to use it!

MODPORTAL DESCRIPTION

Is your vehicle always where you are not, especially when you need it? Do you regularly waste time running to your vehicle because you need something from its trunk? Then let it come to you instead!

This mod is based on Gizmos Car Keys by aodgizmo. It should work with most modded vehicles (except trains and trains in disguise) -- not just cars.

Usage

After you've researched Automobilism (or Ships, if Cargo Ships is active), the keys are available. Use them on a vehicle to make it yours. Using them again on the same vehicle will lock/unlock the vehicle. By using them on another vehicle, you give up your previous vehicle and claim the new one. (Hint: If you want to exchange vehicles but are afraid that other players might take something from your vehicle, or the vehicle itself, lock it before you give it up! Only you will be able to claim it in this state.)

If you use the keys on the ground (or on water, if you have a boat) the vehicle will be summoned there -- if it can be placed there, and if that position is within your character's reach. Usually, your reach will be limited during this action to the vanilla game settings (10 tiles) even if you have mods installed that extend your reach. I consider using long reach as extremely cheaty because you can also summon a car if you are in it -- with long reach enabled, your vehicle keys would become your personal mobile teleporter! Nevertheless, if you insist on using the keys with long reach, there should be a startup option hidden somewhere …

In contrast to the original mod, this one also supports vehicle grids and everything else a vehicle might contain. It also is possible to summon vehicles to another surface; driver and player will be teleported along with the vehicle unless they have chosen to be left on the original surface via a per-player runtime setting.

Other than the original mod, this one should be safe to use in multiplayer games.

Does it work with other mods?

Incompatible mods
There have been no reports yet that this mod would cause errors if used together with another mod, so I guess it's safe to use.

Supported mods
Autodrive

• Remove the "autodrive-passenger" character from vehicles before the vehicle is locked.
• Turn over weapons control to the driver, if present, or to the passenger otherwise. That way, the gunner set by Autodrive will always be able to actually use the weapons.
• WARNING: You can use the Radio Control to drive your vehicle to another location and still use your keys with it. However, if you lock your vehicle, you effectively turn it off. It will stop immediately, and if you have put the Enemy Sensor into its grid, the vehicle won't shoot even if it has ammo and is under attack. After you've unlocked it, the vehicle will resume driving on the calculated path and fight back.
  (TLDR: Don't lock a vehicle and expect it to react to commands transmitted via Radio Control!)

Cargo Ships
- If this mod is installed, the keys will also be unlocked by researching "Ships".

Supported languages

• English
• German
• Russian (Dragonling fetches and translates new/changed strings from other mods and includes them in his. I'll eventually integrate his changes, but you'll get new translations faster if you also have his translations-pack mod installed!)

If you can provide a localization for another language, I'd be happy to include it!

Help needed

I've spent quite some time on testing this mod to make sure it's safe to use in multiplayer mode. However, doing these tests locally may not be reliable. So I'm interested in any feedback on issues while playing multiplayer games!

Credits

Credits go to

- aodgizmo: for the original mod -- I used the code (and changed, added to, or removed parts of it) and the car-key graphics (which I also used for the mod thumbnail) in my mod.
- Zahnfeechen: for Gizmos Car Keys - Zahnfeechen Patch (which updated aodgizmo's mod for Factorio 0.17) -- I happily played with this mod myself until I decided to make my own version. Because this mod shares a lot of code with mine, it is not only unnecessary to have both active at the same time, it could even lead to unforeseeable results because both mods act on the same events. I therefore decided to let my mod conflict with this one.
- Dragonling: for the Russian localization -- thanks a lot!

SCREENSHOTS

Mod settings

GCKI_01-settings.png (57.56 KiB) Viewed 5608 times

Works with boats from Cargo Ships

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Some other vehicles it should work with

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Trying to summon the car too far away from your location

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Trying to summon the car to a location where it can't be placed

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Another player trying to claim a car we previously owned and locked

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Another player trying to claim the crawler we currently own

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Another player trying to enter a car we locked

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Another player has entered our crawler because it wasn't locked.

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The player has left our vehicle again, so it has changed its color to the owner's color (ours). The vehicle is unlocked, so he can steal it ...

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SOME MORE SCREENSHOTS

... and he did steal it!

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Trying to enter the car we locked before we gave it up for the crawler

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The other player was in our car while we summoned it to another surface. He had changed the per-user setting to not be teleported to other surfaces, so he was ejected from the car before it was moved.

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This time, the other player was moved to the other surface along with the car.

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Update (0.17.11):

• Bumped dependency on base mod to >=0.17.75.
• Use the event filtering mechanism introduced in Factorio 0.17.75. This should improve performance as the mod now ignores events it doesn't need to know about.
• Fixes that a dummy character is left on the surface if a vehicle controlled by Autodrive is destroyed. (That's actually a bug of Autodrive, and I'll remove the fix once the bug has been fixed there.)

[Pi-C]

Updates:

VERSION 0.17.12

Date: 2019-11-17T16:48:00+02:00
Bugfixes:
- Event filtering doesn't work if events are raised by scripts (see this thread on the forums: <viewtopic.php?f=34&t=77550#p464525>), so I added a check to on_built_entity. This fixes a bug with the "Rocket-Silo Construction" were the construction site would be removed again as soon as the first stage was completed -- thanks to Dragonling for finding it!

VERSION 0.17.13

Date: 2019-11-19T19:13:00+02:00
Bugfixes:
- Added checks to prevent crashes if a vehicle doesn't exist anymore because the mod that introduced it has been deactivated.
- Make sure players are associated with a character before doing anything in event scripts for on_built_entity and on_player_driving_changed_state. This should prevent crashes occurring in editor and god mode -- thanks to Pankeko for reporting the bug!

Changes:
- Removed event filtering for now: Extra code for filtering events raised by scripts is still required, and event filtering doesn't work with the current stable version of Factorio (0.17.74).
- Reverted dependency on base mod to >= 0.17.73, to make this mod usable with the current stable version again.
- Using the vehicle keys won't have any effect in god mode or editor mode. Also, entering/leaving a vehicle in these modes won't do anything special -- you'll need to play a normal single- or multiplayer game.

[Pi-C]

VERSION 0.17.14

Date: 2019-12-27T21:24:00+02:00
Changes:
- Disabled patches for Autodrive. The things they fixed (adjusting weapons control and removing dummy passengers) are now taken care of in Autodrive itself.

Modding:
- Added remote interface. Other mods can now check who has locked a vehicle or who is the owner of a vehicle. As I am now collaborator on Autodrive (>=0.1.18), I will use this myself to allow for better interaction between these mods.

USAGE:
remote.call("GCKI", "vehicle_locked_by", vehicle)
remote.call("GCKI", "vehicle_owned_by", vehicle)

In both cases, the argument 'vehicle' must be an entity of type "car". Both remote calls will return either a player entity or nil.

[Pi-C]

Version 0.18.1:
- Quick update of info.json so the mod works with Factorio 0.18

[Pi-C]

I've just uploaded a major update, quickly followed by a first bugfix release. Here are the latest changes:

GCKI 1.1.2

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Version: 1.1.2
Date: 2022-12-21T21:30:00+02:00

Info:
- It's been a while since the last update -- close to two years! While a lot has changed under the hood, there are also some changes that you will probably notice immediately if you've used GCKI before. The two most conspicuous change probably are that you can now manage your vehicles via a GUI and that can't craft the car-keys any longer -- they have been replaced with a shortcut. While you still can use the keys to claim, lock/unlock, or summon a vehicle by clicking on the vehicle or on the ground, you now can also select all the vehicles in a given area at once. Moreover, you finally can use GCKI to claim spider-vehicles as well as cars! I hope you'll enjoy the new stuff. Have a lot of fun playing with the new mod!

Major features:
- GCKI now supports spidertrons!

- You can now use GUIs to manage your vehicles!

- The keys are now on the shortcut bar, not an item you can craft and put into an inventory. There's still research required to unlock the shortcut. Click on an individual vehicle to claim or lock/unlock it, or on the ground to summon the vehicle you've claimed. Select an area on the ground to act on various vehicles at once (if possible). Using alt-selection (usually SHIFT+Left mouse button) will add vehicles to an existing selection, using reverse-selection (usually Right mouse button) will remove the selected vehicles.

- Can't tell your three cars apart? Then give them custom names! You can always (re)name a vehicle that you've claimed or locked; unclaimed and unlocked vehicles without a name can be named by anybody; once a vehicle has a name, it can be changed/removed only by the player who originally named it, or by the current owner/locker of the vehicle. Custom names are unique and will persist until the vehicle is destroyed or renamed. Names of vehicles that are temporarily unavailable (e.g. when loaded onto a vehicle wagon) will be reserved until the vehicle is destroyed for good (e.g. when the vehicle wagon carrying it is destroyed). Custom names will be shared with Autodrive, if it is active.

- There are commands you can use to unlock (make active, operable, and minable) or reset (unlock + set color to default and remove custom names) all or selected vehicles. Admins can change all vehicles available in the game, normal player only vehicles that they have claimed, locked, or named. You can also unlock/reset a specific vehicle by specifying its unit_number or custom name.

- You can only enter, mine, or open vehicles that belong to your own force. But now, you can steal a vehicle from another force by claiming it! If the vehicle is unlocked and there is nobody inside, it will be turned over to your force. I hope this will make multiplayer games more interesting!

Bugfixes:
- Fixed crash in multiplayer mode. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 69917d7e68)
- Fixed that characters would be destroyed if the "Avatars" mod was enabled and the player entered/left an Avatar Control Center or Avatar Remote Deploy Unit. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 0252bcd08d)
- Fixed that players would be spammed with messages when using AAI Programmable Vehicles. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 69917d7e68)
- You may have locked entities based on the car prototype that were never meant to be used as vehicles. These will be reset next time you load your game.

Changes:
- Huge overhaul of code (clean-up and rework).
- It seems irrational that just any old jalopy could be locked remotely, or respond to being summoned by a player, they should at least require some advanced tech for that. Therefore, the recipes for all the vehicles that can be claimed with GCKI now require some green circuits. GCKI will add them to any recipe that doesn't already require green, red, or blue circuits.
- Added GUIs (see below) to manage the vehicles you have claimed, locked or selected!
- Moved setting for long reach from start-up to map settings.
- Added new player settings (see below).
- You can give vehicles custom names using the GUI. For vehicles that are based on a spider-vehicle prototype, the same name will be used on the vehicle's GUI (you may have to close and reopen it before the new name is shown).

Commands:
- GCKI now supports commands that you can enter on the chat console. Use "/help" to get a list of the commands; the names start with "GCKI-".
- You can change user settings set with a checkbox using a command now.
- Unlock/reset vehicles from the command line! Resetting a vehicle will unlock it, apply the default color, and remove the custom name. Admins (in single player mode, the player is admin) may unlock/reset any vehicle available in the game; normal players may only change the vehicles they've currently claimed/locked:
- "/GCKI-unlock [vehicle specification]" to unlock all eligible vehicles, or the vehicle specified by custom name or unit_number.
- "/GCKI-unlock-player 'player index or name'" to unlock all vehicles locked by the specified player. Can only be used by admins.
- "/GCKI-reset [unit_number or custom name]" to reset all eligible vehicles, or the vehicle specified by custom name or unit_number.
- "/GCKI-reset-player 'player name or index'" to reset all vehicles owned/locked by the specified player. Can only be used by admins.
- New commands that will only be available in debugging mode:
- "/GCKI-show-active-events" will print and log a list of all events GCKI is currently listening to.
- "/GCKI-is-event-active [event name, event id]" checks if GCKI is listening to the event with the given name or numeric ID.

GUI:
- You can open a GUI of all the vehicles you've currently claimed or locked. Use it to claim/give up or lock/unlock vehicles, assign custom names, or watch a vehicle on minimap/camera. Once you have no claimed/locked vehicle left, the GUI, its toggle button, and the minimap will be automatically hidden. (Camera view will be kept open if messages about destroyed/stolen vehicles are rendered for the player).
- Selecting an area with the keys will open a GUI with information about all selected vehicles. You can see who has claimed/locked a vehicle, manage your claimed/locked vehicles, or give a custom name to unnamed and unlocked vehicles without an owner. Selecting an area in alt-select mode will add the selected vehicles to the GUI, selecting an area in reverse-select mode will remove them from the GUI.
- In minimap or camera view, left click will zoom in, right clíck will zoom out, middle click will reset to default zoom.

Settings:
- New player setting: You can now can turn off purely informational messages (toggle hints). (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 69917d7e68)
- New player setting: If you want to keep your game chat clean, you can display messages and optional hints as flying text.
- New player setting: Open a list of all your locked vehicles when the vehicle you've owned last has been destroyed or stolen, so you can claim one of your remaining vehicles.
- New player setting: Automatically claim your locked vehicle if the vehicle you've owned last has been destroyed or stolen. This will only work if you've exactly 1 locked vehicle left.
- New map setting: Players who join another force can either take all vehicles they've claimed/locked with them (they will then be removed from the selected-vehicles GUI of all players from the old force), or must abandon all their vehicles (vehicles will be unlocked and lose their custom name).
- New map setting: When players change forces and keep their vehicles, players from the old force will be ejected from those vehicles. When players change forces and abandon their vehicles, they will be ejected from any vehicle they are riding in.

Compatibility:
- Other mods may prevent GCKI from changing their recipes by adding the custom flag "recipe.GCKI_ignore = true" in data.lua or data-updates.lua.
- Some mods use entities based on the "car" or "spider-vehicle" prototypes creatively. GCKI will ignore prototypes where selectable_in_game == false (unless they are whitelisted). Entities from the following mods are blacklisted by default:
- "Avatars"
- "Companion Drones"
- "HelicopterRevival"
- "Industrial Revolution 2"
- "King Jo's Warhammer 40K Bunker"
- "Logicarts", "Logistic Carts"
- "Nullius"
- "Renai Transportation"
- "Satisfactorio"
- "Shield Projector"
- "Space Exploration"

- "Space Exploration": Even unlocked vehicles won't be active if they are in space.
- "DMV - Directional Movement Vehicles": Add dummy-items to place the vehicles based on the "car" prototypes for which DMV has created a "spider-vehicle" version (we'll need this so the selection tool will show an icon, and to get the icon for the GUIs).
- Added custom event "on_GCKI_teleported_vehicle". Mods like "AAI Programmable Vehicles" can use that to stop/repath vehicles that have been teleported by GCKI (perhaps even to another surface) while in motion. Use remote.call("GCKI", "get_custom_event_ids") to get the IDs of all custom GCKI events (there's only one event now, but I may add more events in the future).
- Added remote function "vehicle_proxy_destroyed". Mods may store vehicle data when they temporarily remove a vehicle (use case: "Vehicle Wagons 2" loading a vehicle on a wagon). Now vehicles may have a custom name that should persist even though the vehicle is temporarily unavailable, but could be restored. This function should be called when the proxy (e.g. the wagon carrying the vehicle) is destroyed, so that GCKI can remove the custom name from its list.
- Added functions other mods can use to add black- or whitelist their vehicle prototypes with GCKI. See data.lua for instructions!

Localization:
- Renamed strings, so their names make a bit more sense now.
- Removed frequently used phrases from strings, and made new strings ("hints-") for them. Such hints can be toggled with a user setting.
- Considerably shortened long strings. Removed several obsolete strings.

GCKI 1.1.3

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Version: 1.1.3
Date: 2022-12-22T23:23:00+02:00


Bugfixes:
- Fixed that shortcut keys and GUI toggle button were not working after updating. Forgot to register the events in on_configuration_changed… (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 5a09f9870d)

Please report any other bugs you may find -- and most of all, have a lot of fun with the new version!

[Xenophore]

Just to let you know I've encountered a crash when opening an existing save with GCKI 1.1.3 and Nullius 1.5.22, error message given below. Let me know if you need a save file. (do you prefer bug reports here or on the mod portal?)

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The mod Gizmos Car Keys (improved) (1.1.3) caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.

Error while running event GCKI::on_configuration_changed
__GCKI__/scripts/event_handlers.lua:795: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
	__GCKI__/scripts/event_handlers.lua:795: in function 'on_configuration_changed'
	__GCKI__/control.lua:140: in function <__GCKI__/control.lua:138>

[Pi-C]

Just to let you know I've encountered a crash when opening an existing save with GCKI 1.1.3 and Nullius 1.5.22, error message given below.

Thanks for the report! One crash on loading has already been reported, but I'd feel bad when I'd upload a new version where I just removed two duplicate lines from a locale file. Now that there is another bug, updating doesn't look as if I was trying to artificially boost the number of downloads.

Let me know if you need a save file.

I always appreciate getting saved games! Even if they may not be necessary to fix the symptoms (judging from your bug report, I'd just need to check whether a certain table exists before accessing it), I might find out the reason why the table wasn't valid when I turn on debugging and see what functions where called with what arguments in your particular setup. Also, by syncing the mods on loading there's a good chance that I'll get mods I didn't know about before. It has happened several times already that I've found new bugs before they were reported -- and sometimes I've even found completely unrelated bugs after adding one of the other mods I maintain!

(do you prefer bug reports here or on the mod portal?)

Both are OK with me. The forum has one advantage, though: You can attach files directly, if they are not too big!

Error while running event GCKI::on_configuration_changed
__GCKI__/scripts/event_handlers.lua:795: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

OK, I'll try to fix that ASAP! However, given the time of the year, I won't have too much time for the next few days.

Also, given the time of the season, I'd like to wish a merry Christmas (or happy holidays, if you don't celebrate that) to you and all the others reading this!

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Error while running event GCKI::on_configuration_changed
__GCKI__/scripts/event_handlers.lua:795: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

OK, I'll try to fix that ASAP!

I couldn't reproduce the bug. But If you comment out line 795 of __GCKI__/scripts/event_handlers.lua (it's just dumping the value of a variable to the log file), are there any more crashes?

[Xorimuth]

updating doesn't look as if I was trying to artificially boost the number of downloads.

Don't worry, for the last year multiple downloads from the same user (same version and different versions) have been deduplicated when calculating the total downloads number, so updating frequently doesn't boost the number of downloads (although I guess it does still get you more visibility by being in "Recently updated"...)

[Pi-C]

updating doesn't look as if I was trying to artificially boost the number of downloads.

Don't worry, for the last year multiple downloads from the same user (same version and different versions) have been deduplicated

Thanks! I knew that multiple downloads by the same user would be counted just once, but I thought that would only apply to downloads of the same version.

[Anachrony]

Don't worry, for the last year multiple downloads from the same user (same version and different versions) have been deduplicated when calculating the total downloads number, so updating frequently doesn't boost the number of downloads (although I guess it does still get you more visibility by being in "Recently updated"...)

Oddly, I've observed a bigger impact on unique total downloads from when the "trending" value goes positive than from being recently updated per se. On the mod portal, recently updated is the default, and trending isn't great to browse because it doesn't let you break it up into categories. But the in-game mod portal defaults to sorting by trending, and it does let you break it up by categories and still sort by trending. So my theory is that a ton of players are discovering mods through searching the in-game, even though in my opinion it doesn't seem like as good of an interface for finding new mods.

Of course these factors are not unrelated. The existing users updating to a new version does count for the daily/monthly downloads graph, which is what is used for the trending statistic. So after a long period without updates, a new update is pretty much guaranteed to result in it trending within the next day or two.

[Xenophore]

Error while running event GCKI::on_configuration_changed
__GCKI__/scripts/event_handlers.lua:795: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

OK, I'll try to fix that ASAP!

I couldn't reproduce the bug. But If you comment out line 795 of __GCKI__/scripts/event_handlers.lua (it's just dumping the value of a variable to the log file), are there any more crashes?

Removing line 795 fixed it, but after saving and quitting, putting in back in didn't break it. I can't reproduce the bug with the save now, and a new save always worked, so apologies - I should have backed up the broken save.

[Pi-C]

Removing line 795 fixed it, but after saving and quitting, putting in back in didn't break it. I can't reproduce the bug with the save now, and a new save always worked, so apologies - I should have backed up the broken save.

After you've saved the game, the configuration didn't change again, so on_configuration_changed wasn't entered and the code couldn't break. You could try to add or remove a mod, then it the event would be triggered again.

[Pi-C]

Just to let you know I've encountered a crash when opening an existing save with GCKI 1.1.3 and Nullius 1.5.22, error message given below.

Fixed in version 1.1.4.

GCKI 1.1.4

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Version: 1.1.4
Date: 2023-01-03T14:35:00+02:00

Bugfixes:
- Fixed that game wouldn't load with Russian localization because there were two duplicates of string names. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 69917d7e68)
- Fixed crash when trying to access a value in a non-existant table -- in a debugging function, of all places! (viewtopic.php?p=578984#p578984, https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 4417c024aa)
- Fixed crash caused by a typo in the handler for on_runtime_mod_setting_changed. (Thanks to robot256 for finding this!)

TODO:
- If an AAI-controlled vehicle is summoned to another surface while driving, it will continue its way on the new surface even if the target position is in an empty chunk. (We raise a custom event now when a vehicle is teleported, so AAI could respond to it.)

- Spider-vehicles can have entity.entity_label, it should be in sync with the custom name. (Problem: on_entity_renamed won't give us event.player_index if event.by_script == true)

- Fix that missing difficulties will be added to recipes (and recipe.result replaced with recipe.results) in prototypes.3-add-circuits-to-vehicle-recipes. We just need to check for vehicles among the results, not modify every recipe!

[Pi-C]

Some bugfixes:

GCKI 1.1.5

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Version: 1.1.5
Date: 2023-01-11T00:38:00+02:00

Bugfixes:
- Fixed that our super-secret dummy items were visible in logistic requests etc. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 082ef9cad1)
- Fixed crash on opening the Tips & Tricks tutorial scenario. Thanks to robot256 for directing my attention to this bug which probably affects all my mods! (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... b807a63fba)
- GCKI won't add missing difficulties to arbitrary recipes any more when looking for results or adding ingredients. It also won't replace recipe.result with recipe.results. Unifying recipes seemed to be a good idea to avoid problems when accessing the recipes, but apparently that will cause problems for other mods. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... ce5dcbdc8d)

Some new stuff:

GCKI 1.1.6

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Version: 1.1.6
Date: 2023-05-25T17:05:26+02:00

Changes:
- GUI events used to be enabled or disabled together with the shortcut events when research of the/an unlock tech had been finished or reverted or a force was reset. Now we only enable GUI events if at least one player on a force that has unlocked the keys has stored data for at least one GUI.
- Added global settings for dealing with force resets and reverting research of the unlock tech(s). Depending on the setting, vehicles will be retained until the force has researched the unlock tech again, or the players on the force will lose ownership of their vehicles for good and any vehicles they have locked will be unlocked again.
- Change per-user setting "Render color" to new (as of Factorio 1.1.77) type "color-setting".
- Requires Factorio >=1.1.77.

Compatibility:
- Forced startup setting of "Spidertron Weapon Switcher" for alternate items to be true.
- Blacklisted dummy prototypes of "Spidertron Enhancements".
- Blacklisted spider-vehicle from "Companion Drones".
- Blacklisted car-prototype from "Long range delivery drones".

Modding:
- Deprecated custom event "on_GCKI_teleported_vehicle" in favor of the new vanilla "script_raised_teleported" event (added in Factorio 1.1.77). We'll still raise the custom event for now, but it will be removed in one of the next versions.
- As script_raised_teleported will be raised manually, it may contain the additional argument "name_render_text_id".

TODO:
- If an AAI-controlled vehicle is summoned to another surface while driving, it will continue its way on the new surface even if the target position is in an empty chunk. (AAI should listen to define.events.script_raised_teleported!)
- Spider-vehicles can have entity.entity_label, it should be in sync with the custom name. (Problem: on_entity_renamed won't give us event.player_index if event.by_script == true)
- Remove deprecated custom event "on_GCKI_teleported_vehicle" in one of the next versions!
- Does it make sense to keep the mod active is the scenario doesn't support characters?

[Pi-C]

Small bugfix:

GCKI 1.1.7

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Version: 1.1.7
Date: 2023-05-29T00:15:00+02:00

Changes:
- Bumped optional dependency on Autodrive to version 1.1.5, so that the game won't crash because of different setting types for the "Render color" setting if both mods are active. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/autodrive ... 5ec1cec5f6 )

A bunch of changes under the hood:

GCKI 1.1.8

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Version: 1.1.8
Date: 2023-10-17T10:05:00+02:00

Bugfixes:
- Fixed that spider-vehicles wouldn't show their path anymore once they had been un-claimed. The path color is the same as the entity color, so using {a=0} as default color of the vehicle made the path rendering invisible; the new default color is {a=0.5}. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 6424fd2833)

Changes:
- We'll now ignore vehicle prototypes where allow_passengers is false because such vehicles may have neither driver nor passenger.
- Will now also register renamed vehicles that are currently neither claimed nor locked.
- Added handler for custom event on_spidertron_switched from "Spidertron Weapon Switcher".
- Added handler for new (as of version 1.1.83) event on_entity_color_changed. There are still some issues with the "Custom Color" mod; waiting for an update on the other end before I can tackle this.
- Replaced most references to game.players[], which is shorter to write, with game.get_player(), which is faster to run.
- In on_configuration_changed, we now exchange the following data with Autodrive: list of supported vehicle prototypes; original colors of vehicles based on prototypes supported by Autodrive/GCKI; custom vehicle names set by Autodrive/GCKI; Autodrive owner and GCKI owner/locker of vehicles controlled by both mods.
- Improved cleanup of obsolete mod data.
- We now inform Autodrive about vehicles added to/removed from our GUI. Likewise, we store and update info about Autodrive owners with the respective vehicle when it is added/removed by Autodrive. This way, we don't have to use remote calls each time one of the mods wants to update their GUI or rename/recolor a vehicle.
- If both GCKI and Autodrive are active, the events on_entity_color_changed and on_entity_renamed will be handled only by us (we will tell Autodrive to update its data).
- Bumped dependency on base to >=1.1.85. (Required for on_entity_color_changed, but as version 1.1.91 is already stable, this is a mere formality.)
- Bumped optional dependency on Autodrive to >=1.1.6, so the two mods can interact correctly.

GUI:
- If a vehicle doesn't have a custom name, its unit_number will be shown instead in the header of camera and minimap GUIs. The unit_number may change if a vehicle has been exchanged by another mod; however, this shouldn't cause too much confusion as the unit_number is also shown on the main GUI if the vehicle has no custom name.

Modding:
- Removed deprecated custom event "on_GCKI_teleported_vehicle". Listen to defines.events.script_raised_teleported instead! It will be raised with the following data:
{
entity = LuaEntity,
old_surface_index = uint,
old_position = MapPosition,
name_render_text_id = uint (optional, ID of LuaRendering for custom name)
mod_name = "GCKI" (fixed string added by Factorio)
}

[Pi-C]

Again, there are some minor versions I've skipped so far:

GCKI 1.1.9 and 1.1.10

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Version: 1.1.9
Date: 2023-10-18T18:32:00+02:00

Bugfixes:
- Fixed crash when trying to enter/leave a vehicle of a prototype not supported by GCKI (e.g. rolling stock) while Autodrive was not active. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 1fa1442d7d)


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Version: 1.1.10
Date: 2023-11-25T11:15:00+02:00

Compatibility:
- The recipe for the monowheel from IR3 required a green circuit, which comes so late in the research tree that it rendered the monowheel useless. We now ignore the monowheel recipe. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 86192e246e)
- Characters that don't have character.player, but do have character.associated_player won't be regarded as dummy characters any longer. This should solve an issue with Nullius when players switch characters while riding in a vehicle. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... 8d06fde2be)

In the latest update, I've finally cleaned up some bugs that had gone unnoticed for a long time. Additionally, I've implemented a new feature allowing you to adjust the orientation of summoned vehicles to the player character's orientation. This makes it easy to place vehicles on roads with walls left and right.

GCKI 1.1.11

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Version: 1.1.11
Date: 2024-01-03T00:35:00+02:00

Bugfixes:
- Fixed some references to localized strings that don't exist (wrong name or category).
- Fixed that force data would not be initialized if a player changed forces, and was the only player on the new force.

Changes:
- Improved position check when summoning vehicles. LuaSurface::can_place_entity() checks only whether the target location has space for vehicles pointing north. We now also look for entities in the rotated area to make sure that there really is nothing that could collide with the summoned vehicle.

- By default, summoned vehicles will be placed with their original orientation. If you summon the vehicle using alt-select (Shift + Left Mouse Button), the vehicle will be rotated so it matches the orientation of your character. If you are in another vehicle which is supported by GCKI, the summoned vehicle will use that vehicle's orientation. If you are inside the summoned vehicle or in a vehicle that is not supported by GCKI (e.g. trains), the summoned vehicle will keep its orientation. (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/GCKI/disc ... e803935074)

- Added per-player setting to invert the behaviour (summoned vehicles use the player character's/vehicle's orientation by default and keep the orientation with alt-select).

Compatibility:
- If a player enters a force from "Blueprint Sandboxes", we will hide the player's GUIs and disable the player's shortcut until the player returns to the original force.

Localization:
- Removed default values from mod setting descriptions. This has been obsolete since the reset buttons for each setting have been added to the game a long time ago.

[ukezi]

Hi. I would like to do a compatibility patch for ultracube, but you don't have a linked repo. How would you like to get the patch?