Graph combinator
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Graph combinator
It'd be cool to be able to see time series graphs of all the outputs of a network, like the production graphs. I couldn't find any APIs to add a mod for this, but if someone knows better, please point me in the right direciton.
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Re: Graph combinator
[Koub] Moved to Modding help. If the modding experts lurking here say it's not possible, I'll move it to modding interface requests.
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Re: Graph combinator
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/factorio-dashboardblazespinnaker wrote: ↑Thu Feb 11, 2021 10:05 pmIt'd be cool to be able to see time series graphs of all the outputs of a network, like the production graphs. I couldn't find any APIs to add a mod for this, but if someone knows better, please point me in the right direciton.
like this?
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Re: Graph combinator
Yuck++. Did you look at that mod? These are the sort of details which are the difference between a miserable experience and a pleasant one and why mods are not the panacea that people think they are.
Sure, with a turing complete engine, I guess you can do anything. You could probably write Quake with a word processor macro language. But would you want to?
What half makes Factorio great are in the details. Folks don't appreciate that enough.
Sure, with a turing complete engine, I guess you can do anything. You could probably write Quake with a word processor macro language. But would you want to?
What half makes Factorio great are in the details. Folks don't appreciate that enough.
Isn't it rather obvious that everything is also a modding interface request?[Koub] Moved to Modding help. If the modding experts lurking here say it's not possible, I'll move it to modding interface requests
OptimaUPS Mod, pm for info.
Re: Graph combinator
nothing you said really makes sense to me in this context.blazespinnaker wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:41 pmYuck++. Did you look at that mod? These are the sort of details which are the difference between a miserable experience and a pleasant one and why mods are not the panacea that people think they are.
Sure, with a turing complete engine, I guess you can do anything. You could probably write Quake with a word processor macro language. But would you want to?
What half makes Factorio great are in the details. Folks don't appreciate that enough.
Isn't it rather obvious that everything is also a modding interface request?[Koub] Moved to Modding help. If the modding experts lurking here say it's not possible, I'll move it to modding interface requests
can you elaborate? you asked for time-series details of the production flow statistics. I showed you what's possible. what's the problem?
Re: Graph combinator
Wiring up the lights to make pretty pictures of the data I leave up to whoever wants the fancy stuff bad enough to implement it, here's how you get however much of a circuit history you want to make pictures of.
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Re: Graph combinator
Yeah, that's another way to go for sure and it was what I originally planned on doing, though something like train lights on a map view was what I was thinking. The idea being that the lights would generate digits. Graphs for bonus points, I guess.
However, my original intention (subverted unkindly by the mod, imho) was that Wube had already created a very nice graphing interface and enhancing it to consume combinators should in theory be a simple tweak on their part assuming basic engineering practices took place, or at the very least adding a mod API.
Given some of the nonsenical API design, it's possible that basic engineering practices didn't always take place. I've done my share of hacks though, so I get it.
However, my original intention (subverted unkindly by the mod, imho) was that Wube had already created a very nice graphing interface and enhancing it to consume combinators should in theory be a simple tweak on their part assuming basic engineering practices took place, or at the very least adding a mod API.
Given some of the nonsenical API design, it's possible that basic engineering practices didn't always take place. I've done my share of hacks though, so I get it.
OptimaUPS Mod, pm for info.