Editor Lua Snippets

[D4rkL0rd]

Hello,

I am trying to program some editor snippets but I can't get it to work (i'm not a programmer) I just want to set all objects in the selection to indestructible/not minable/ not rotatable. Can anybody help?

[eradicator]

Never used editor snippets myself. Looks like any command is prepended to include a local variable "area" that is defined as the area you just selected. So you can basically reuse the example snippet:

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function myfunction(entity) --[[edit as you like but don't change name]]
  entity.destructible = false
  entity.minable = false
  entity.rotatable = false
  end

--[[don't touch the stuff below]]
local surface = game.player.surface
local entities = surface.find_entities_filtered{area = area}
for _, v in pairs(entities) do myfunction(v) end

[darkfrei]

You can also make a mod, that adds selection tool for do this code for selected entities only:
https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/SelectionTool
The vanilla has all prototypes, just look how it was done there.

And for control:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/eve ... ected_area
Also you can add some graphics by "saved" entities with the LuaRendering.