Belt Turns and Splitter problems.

[tonberrytoby]

I think we really need an High speed splitter. And some sort of lane Splitter/Merger.
If I want to move a lane to the different lane, it basically only works on slow belts. You can't saturate a red belt.


You can even try to split it but it doesn't work. You need 3 splitter, possibly because the splitter is to slow.


And about the idea that splitter are fast: Here you see that on a fast belt the splitter causes the input to bunch up. So I do think a fast splitter is needed. Or the splitter could work fast.



So what we need is a Fast Splitter, like the old one only faster. We need a lane splitter that Outputs the left and right lane of an input to 2 different belts. And a lane merger that outputs one belt to one lane.



Also. can someone recommend some way to balance several fast inputs. That is you have one or more input lanes that are full fast belts. And you want to put them on a fast output:

[kovarex]

Ok, I did some changes to make the inner turn of belt and belt crossing disturb the flow less for the next version

[tonberrytoby]

I did go into the data files, and increased the speed of the splitter from normal to express (0.03 to 0.09). It fixed most of my problems. Makes merging and splitting a lot easier.

[gr0mpel]

I did go into the data files, and increased the speed of the splitter from normal to express (0.03 to 0.09). It fixed most of my problems. Makes merging and splitting a lot easier.

what value did u change and in which file?
i would be interested in that too. these slow spliters really are a pain..

[tonberrytoby]

what value did u change and in which file?
i would be interested in that too. these slow spliters really are a pain..

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--- factorio_base/data/base/prototypes/entity/entities.lua	2013-05-06 13:12:34.000000000 +0200
+++ factorio/data/base/prototypes/entity/entities.lua	2013-05-10 19:04:06.570808302 +0200
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@
       y = 224
     },
     fast_replaceable_group = "splitter",
-    speed = 0.03125,
+    speed = 0.09375,
     structure_horizontal =
     {
       filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/basic-splitter/basic-splitter-structure-horizontal.png",

[gr0mpel]

nice thx!!