[2.0.21] The wire does not reach

[IsaacOscar]

Except thay won't work, the range is the intersection between the wire reach ranges of the substation and inserter (also the wire reach of the substation is actually the same as its supply range!) So you'd need to draw your green square around the inserter as well, and the substation wouldn't have a blue square anymore as it would be entirely overlapped by its green square.

At the very top, the animation proves otherwise.
Or the map editor is not working properly.
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What part is wrong?
Your animation does not demonstrate what the wire reach range of an inserter is, to work that out you'll need to try and connect two inserters together.

[SANTIMEL]

No, i will just use your own argument about importance of real life analogy here: to have long cables, both endpoints need to be able to resist increased tensile forces so they need to be strong enough. Inserter is not strong enough to resist immense tensile forces of having such a long wire (it was only tested to safely hold wires up to 9 tiles long) and as such it cannot hold wire going to a substation in some cases regardless of being in the electric supply range.

I've already accepted your decision.
However, it will still be useful to visualize it.
Not on a permanent basis. But only when the player tries to connect one or another wire.

That is, if the player tries to connect the green wire. Then you need to show him the radius of propagation of this wire.

[SANTIMEL]

What part is wrong?
Your animation does not demonstrate what the wire reach range of an inserter is, to work that out you'll need to try and connect two inserters together.

Oh, I see what you mean. It is difficult to interpret a machine translation of a text perfectly.

I suppose to implement it like this:

- The player presses the green wire
- And when player try to connect it, the object with the smallest radius, this radius is visualized as a square. The same color as the connected wire.
- If you remove the wire from your hands, or switch to another object, then the visualization of the propagation radius should disappear.

Ps.: Although in my opinion, it is more profitable and easier to make the length of colored wires equal to the radius of electricity distribution

[Loewchen]

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