It would be nice to NOT have to scroll to see the entire map preview. Having a zoom defaulted to the map preview generation would be a good start. Allowing players to set the preview size/zoom level via the preview panel or options menu (to set a default) would be even better.
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Map Preview enhancements prior to game start!
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Re: Map Preview enhancements prior to game start!
You can set the size in the config file.
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Re: Map Preview enhancements prior to game start!
Awesome. is there anyway to change the zoom at preview prior to game start? If not, would that be a big change on Wube's end?
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Re: Map Preview enhancements prior to game start!
It would be handy if we could change the zoom even through the config — for those guys who take screenshots of the map in the preview dialog
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It would also be nice if the game could run the on_chunk_generated hooks so things like the Resource Spawner Overhaul show an actual preview. At least optionally or via the mod setting a flag that it changes the map drastically.
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Re: Map Preview enhancements prior to game start!
If they would do this, then the idea of the zoom would be infinitely more useful (to memrvn wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:02 pm It would also be nice if the game could run the on_chunk_generated hooks so things like the Resource Spawner Overhaul show an actual preview. At least optionally or via the mod setting a flag that it changes the map drastically.
). I like setting RSO to give me very spread out resources, so much so that at current I have to load into the game and then reveal a 4kx4k tile area just to make sure none of the resources were excluded in that range. Makes generating maps with additional mod added resources a pain, too....My Mods: Classic Factorio Basic Oil Processing | Sulfur Production from Oils | Wood to Oil Processing | Infinite Resources - Normal Yield | Tree Saplings (Redux) | Alien Biomes Tweaked | Restrictions on Artificial Tiles | New Gear Girl & HR Graphics
Re: Map Preview enhancements prior to game start!
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of what the preview is showing. The preview does not make a game, it doesn't make a surface, it doesn't load mods at all. It's a pure preview of what map generation would apply when run with the given map generator settings in the GUI. It can't and never will show anything beyond that. If you need more than that; you can click "generate" to make the actual game and see what it shows there.mrvn wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:02 pm It would also be nice if the game could run the on_chunk_generated hooks so things like the Resource Spawner Overhaul show an actual preview. At least optionally or via the mod setting a flag that it changes the map drastically.
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Sure, I often do. And then restart and restart the game till I get a nice map. The map preview is simply pointless with mods that modify the map.Rseding91 wrote: Fri Dec 08, 2023 2:56 amI think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of what the preview is showing. The preview does not make a game, it doesn't make a surface, it doesn't load mods at all. It's a pure preview of what map generation would apply when run with the given map generator settings in the GUI. It can't and never will show anything beyond that. If you need more than that; you can click "generate" to make the actual game and see what it shows there.mrvn wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 9:02 pm It would also be nice if the game could run the on_chunk_generated hooks so things like the Resource Spawner Overhaul show an actual preview. At least optionally or via the mod setting a flag that it changes the map drastically.
When I want to make a map preview to test modifications to a mod then having to do so manually via GUI is a lot slower than doing a preview from the command line. Even more so than picking a map for the game. If the mod modifies the elevation function you have to restart the game every time. So it would be nice to have a map preview with on_chunk_generated hooks, at least for the command line.