[MOD 1.0] Alien walls [0.9.5]

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[MOD 1.0] Alien walls [0.9.5]

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Type: Mod
Name: Alien Walls
Description: Originating as an add-on to darkshadow's Evolution, this mod is now a stand-alone mod that adds regenerating walls and gates.
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Dependency: Base Factorio
Version: 0.9.5
Release: 08/18/2020
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 1.0
Category: Other
Tags: Free
Download-Url: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/vedrit/AlienWall
Website: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 32&t=12840
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I'll officially release this mod when I'm no longer using placeholders for the entities/icons
Last edited by vedrit on Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:12 am, edited 44 times in total.
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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Hey, what sort of stuff do you have done already?

I can help out with the research scripting if you need the help.

I might try my hand at making some wall graphics, I will see what i can do.

Unrelated upload:
Mining_Drones_1.1.0.zip
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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I've literally just started, so I have nothing done. My girlfriend does graphic design, so I've asked her to handle graphics. I'm kind of just going through files and figuring out what I need and where to put things.
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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I've hit a snag in that Factorio always "Error in assignID, 'hybrid-wall' was not recognized id of item" sometimes it'll say recipe instead of item
I've checked all my files, and the name is consistent across them all, "hybrid-wall"
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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vedrit wrote:I've hit a snag in that Factorio always "Error in assignID, 'hybrid-wall' was not recognized id of item" sometimes it'll say recipe instead of item
I've checked all my files, and the name is consistent across them all, "hybrid-wall"
I recomends make a copy of existing item and modify how you want.
Check this code from version > 0.4.0 (prototypes), is better start with that code from the beginning.

That error must be in the item, or the item doesn't exists.
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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L0771 wrote:
vedrit wrote:I've hit a snag in that Factorio always "Error in assignID, 'hybrid-wall' was not recognized id of item" sometimes it'll say recipe instead of item
I've checked all my files, and the name is consistent across them all, "hybrid-wall"
I recomends make a copy of existing item and modify how you want.
Check this code from version > 0.4.0 (prototypes), is better start with that code from the beginning.

That error must be in the item, or the item doesn't exists.
That's essentially what I've done, using Evolution, Dytech, and the Factorio base (for the gate, since I don't know of any mod that has a gate)
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Interesting way to structure things, L0771, but I'm not quite sure I understand it
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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Resolved the issue. I wasn't calling recipe or item in data. It now loads up without a hitch! MOVING ON!

Tested it out, and the wall isn't healing. A bit of a problem, as one might understand
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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This is relevant to my interests. :D
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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So, according to the wiki, healing_per_tick only works on active entities, but I don't see anywhere I can set an entity to be active. There's mention of an [entity].active = true but it doesn't seem to be working, or else I don't know how to use it.
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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vedrit wrote:So, according to the wiki, healing_per_tick only works on active entities, but I don't see anywhere I can set an entity to be active. There's mention of an [entity].active = true but it doesn't seem to be working, or else I don't know how to use it.
Thats not a problem, i can set up a script in the control.lua to emulate the regeneration if you'd like.
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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That would be appreciated. I don't currently have a control file, and I'm curious how it would work.
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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This is just a draft, once more work is done and its reasonably packaged i can work on it more. If this doesnt work let me know.

Just save it as control.lua

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require "defines"
require "util"


game.onevent(defines.events.ontick, function(event)

		if glob.ticking == nil then
			glob.ticking = 59
		end
		
		if glob.ticking == 0 then
			glob.ticking = 59
			heal_wall()
		else
			glob.ticking = glob.ticking - 1
		end
end)


game.onevent(defines.events.onrobotbuiltentity , function(event)

	if event.createdentity.name == "hybrid-wall" then
	
			if glob.monsterwall == nil then
				glob.monsterwall = {}
			end
			
		local monsterwall = event.createdentity
			table.insert(glob.monsterwall, monsterwall)
	end
end)

game.onevent(defines.events.onbuiltentity, function(event)

	if event.createdentity.name == "hybrid-wall" then
	
			if glob.monsterwall == nil then
				glob.monsterwall = {}
			end
			
		local monsterwall = event.createdentity
			table.insert(glob.monsterwall, monsterwall)
	end
end)




function heal_wall()

	if glob.monsterwall ~= nil then 
		for k,monsterwall in pairs(glob.monsterwall) do
			local HP = monsterwall.health
				if HP < 1750 --max health
					then HP = HP + 10 --Hp per second
					monsterwall.health = HP
				end
			else
		end
	else
		table.remove(glob.monsterwall, k)
	end
end
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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Klonan wrote:This is just a draft, once more work is done and its reasonably packaged i can work on it more. If this doesnt work let me know.

Just save it as control.lua

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require "defines"
require "util"


game.onevent(defines.events.ontick, function(event)

		if glob.ticking == nil then
			glob.ticking = 59
		end
		
		if glob.ticking == 0 then
			glob.ticking = 59
			heal_wall()
		else
			glob.ticking = glob.ticking - 1
		end
end)


game.onevent(defines.events.onrobotbuiltentity , function(event)

	if event.createdentity.name == "hybrid-wall" then
	
			if glob.monsterwall == nil then
				glob.monsterwall = {}
			end
			
		local monsterwall = event.createdentity
			table.insert(glob.monsterwall, monsterwall)
	end
end)

game.onevent(defines.events.onbuiltentity, function(event)

	if event.createdentity.name == "hybrid-wall" then
	
			if glob.monsterwall == nil then
				glob.monsterwall = {}
			end
			
		local monsterwall = event.createdentity
			table.insert(glob.monsterwall, monsterwall)
	end
end)




function heal_wall()

	if glob.monsterwall ~= nil then 
		for k,monsterwall in pairs(glob.monsterwall) do
			local HP = monsterwall.health
				if HP < 1750 --max health
					then HP = HP + 10 --Hp per second
					monsterwall.health = HP
				end
			else
		end
	else
		table.remove(glob.monsterwall, k)
	end
end

It keeps saying there are missing 'end's in the heal_wall function when I try to initiate a game, whether saved or new, which I don't understand since it looks like it has end's in the correct places. When I put in end's where the game says they are expected, this is what we end up with

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function heal_wall()
   if glob.alienwall ~= nil then 
      for k,alienwall in pairs(glob.alienwall) do
         local HP = alienwall.health
            if HP < 500 --max health
               then HP = HP + 5 --Hp per second
               alienwall.health = HP
            end
         end
		 else
      end
   end
   else
      table.remove(glob.alienwall, k)
   end
end
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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there's an additional else in there:

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    function heal_wall()

       if glob.monsterwall ~= nil then
          for k,monsterwall in pairs(glob.monsterwall) do
             local HP = monsterwall.health
             if HP < 1750 --max healththen 
                HP = HP + 10 --Hp per second
                monsterwall.health = HP
             end
           --  else <--right here
          end
       else
          table.remove(glob.monsterwall, k)
       end
    end
I also reindented that part
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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ratchetfreak wrote:there's an additional else in there:

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    function heal_wall()

       if glob.monsterwall ~= nil then
          for k,monsterwall in pairs(glob.monsterwall) do
             local HP = monsterwall.health
             if HP < 1750 --max healththen 
                HP = HP + 10 --Hp per second
                monsterwall.health = HP
             end
           --  else <--right here
          end
       else
          table.remove(glob.monsterwall, k)
       end
    end
I also reindented that part

Thanks. Now the game is saying that a table was expected, but got nil at table.remove(glob.alienwall, k)
Isn't the first if in the function supposed to prevent such a case?
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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Simplification of the tick function:

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game.onevent(defines.events.ontick, function(event)
		if (game.tick % 60) == 0 then
			heal_wall()
		end
end)
Fix of the heal_wall function:

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function heal_wall()
	if glob.monsterwall ~= nil then
		for k,monsterwall in pairs(glob.monsterwall) do
			if monsterwall.valid then -- Is the wall still there?
				local HP = monsterwall.health
				if HP < 1750 then
					HP = HP + 10 --Hp per second
					monsterwall.health = HP
				end
			else -- It's no longer there, so remove it from our list.
				table.remove(glob.monsterwall, k)
			end
		end
	end
end
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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Thanks Pear, I'm no longer getting errors and the hybrid-gate entity will heal over time, but the hybrid-wall entity won't. Is there a way to check if both entity types are being added?

Edit - Is it possible to add the entity to the table within the entity file, rather than in control?

Edit2 - I figured out the healing thing and got it so both will now heal. Sweet.
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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vedrit wrote:So, according to the wiki, healing_per_tick only works on active entities, but I don't see anywhere I can set an entity to be active. There's mention of an [entity].active = true but it doesn't seem to be working, or else I don't know how to use it.
Some entities don't accept healing_per_tick.
Check this code, i'll do something like this, i think is the best option for now, working with triggers.
vedrit wrote:Edit - Is it possible to add the entity to the table within the entity file, rather than in control?
Yep, very useful, if you creates the entity with createentity, just do
local var = createentity(...)
if you creates the entity with the character, add in the function "onrobotbuiltentity"
local var = event.createdentity
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls

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L0771 wrote:
vedrit wrote:So, according to the wiki, healing_per_tick only works on active entities, but I don't see anywhere I can set an entity to be active. There's mention of an [entity].active = true but it doesn't seem to be working, or else I don't know how to use it.
Some entities don't accept healing_per_tick.
Check this code, i'll do something like this, i think is the best option for now, working with triggers.
That would be another interesting way of doing things, but there's so much going on, I don't really understand it with my fairly limited knowledge of Lua. I would need someone far more experienced to go through it with me and explain what each function is doing and where it's getting it's data, and where that data is going.
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Re: [WIP] Alien walls [0.1.2]

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Thanks everyone for fixing the issues with my script, I havent been able to test any of this myself.

I've written up a research control script to automatically increment a global regen rate.

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require "defines
require "util"

function init() --Initialises the global value
	if glob.monsterregen == nil then
		glob.monsterregen = 10  --per second
	end
end

function set_regen(n) --used for testing or debugging IDK if it works
	glob.monsteregen = n
end

game.oninit(init)
game.onload(init)




game.onevent(defines.events.onresearchfinished, function(event) --when research is finished

	if research == "monster-wall-upgrade" then
			glob.monsterregen = glob.monsterregen * 1.2 --plus 20%
			--glob.monsterregen = glob.monsterregen +5 -- increase to 15
		end	
	
	if research == "monster-wall-upgrade-1" then
			glob.monsterregen = glob.monsterregen * 1.4 --plus 40%
		end
	
	
	if research == "monster-wall-upgrade-2" then
			glob.monsterregen = glob.monsterregen * 1.6 --plus 60%
		end
	end
	
)
You can integrate this into the control.lua or just save it as research.lua and require it in the control.lua

we'd need to change the heal_wall function to

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function heal_wall()

   if glob.monsterwall ~= nil then
      for k,monsterwall in pairs(glob.monsterwall) do
         if monsterwall.valid then -- Is the wall still there?
            local HP = monsterwall.health
            if HP < 1750 then
               HP = HP + glob.regenrate --Hp per second determined by global value
               monsterwall.health = HP
            end
         else -- It's no longer there, so remove it from our list.
            table.remove(glob.monsterwall, k)
         end
      end
It might be better to have the global.regenrate to be checked when the wall entity is built (alongside the glob.monsterwall check)
just slip it in alongside it.

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	if glob.monsterregen == nil then
		glob.monsterregen = 1
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