Only half of tech image shown

[FreeER]

I'm reworking the Tutorial on the Wiki (that adds a bomber) and for some reason only the right half of my technology icon is being shown in the research menu
Can anyone tell me why?

64x64 only half shown

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The larger image that I resized with Adobe PhotoShop to be 64x64

bomber_tech_old.png (13.33 KiB) Viewed 4766 times

if for some reason you'd like to download the rest of the mod (maybe because you are lazy and do not want to change code to make it use the bomber_tech.png) the Tutorial is here. I encountered this issue in Chapter 5 (which is where the technology is added).

[Nirahiel]

Maybe because the icons should be 32 by 32 ?

[FreeER]

Maybe because the icons should be 32 by 32 ?

lol, I wondered that myself, but if that was the case
1) it would show a quarter of the image not half and
2) the images in /data/base/graphics/technology are 64x64
I wish it were that simple though...

[Nirahiel]

Here are some improvements for your code :

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    local drop = false
    local biters = 0
    for k,v in pairs(bomb) do
      if v.force.equals(game.forces.enemy) then
        drop = true
        if v.name == "small-biter" or v.name == "medium-biter" or v.name == "big-biter" then
          biters = biters + 1
          if biters < 5 then --if five or more will be killed then drop
            drop = false
          end
        end
      end
    end

You create a drop var and set it to false, then for each entity of the bomb table, you reset it back to true, and then back to false again if biters < 5.
Here is what I'd do :

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    local drop = false
    local biters = 0
    for k,v in pairs(bomb) do
      if v.force.equals(game.forces.enemy) then
        if v.name == "small-biter" or v.name == "medium-biter" or v.name == "big-biter" then
          biters = biters + 1
        end
      end
    end
    if biters > 4 then
      drop = true
    end

But then you could make your script even better by not calling a for loop and just doing

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local enemies = game.findenemyunits(game.player.character.position, 5)

Find all enemies in a radius of 5 around the player.
Then something like

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if #enemies > 4 then
  drop = true
end

should work

[FreeER]

Here are some improvements for your code :

In your first 'improved' code, it only gets set to true if there are more than 4 biters, if you happen to run across a spawner (and it for some reason does not have enough biters) you'd be unable to destroy it. Also I seemed to have issues with targeting worms...

Ah I forgot about findenemyunits (actually I don't think it existed when I originally made this mod) lol. That would certainly make it much better, BUT I also intend to change it to use capsules so that the player can actually control the bombs. Before the capsules were created I thought about using code to auto switch out the player's weapon with a rocket launcher (or similar) but...capsules just seem like a better idea to me xD

[rk84]

@FreeER There is one thing that has been bothering me for while Talk:Modding_Tutorial

[Nirahiel]

Here are some improvements for your code :

In your first 'improved' code, it only gets set to true if there are more than 4 biters

Same thing for you dude, if you set it to true, but then set it to false again before the end of the for loop, then after the for loop exits, your variable will be set to false.
I really just improved your code, I didn't change it's behavior.
The get enemies thing should also target worms and spawners ... i guess

[kovarex]

Try to delete crop-cache, it's location depends on system, but it is in the directory where you saves directory is.

[FreeER]

Try to delete crop-cache, it's location depends on system, but it is in the directory where you saves directory is.

ah ha! You sir are a genius

@FreeER There is one thing that has been bothering me for while Talk:Modding_Tutorial

Oh, I'll fix that lol! I don't think I really truly understood those two files when I wrote the tutorial lol

[Animar]

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I'm reworking the Tutorial on the Wiki (that adds a bomber) and for some reason only the right half of my technology icon is being shown in the research menu
Can anyone tell me why?

I run in the same issue 32 Pixel just work fine but in a very ugly way, if i try to use 64x64 ( wich even the base research imgaes are ) i got only the top left quarter shown, as you can see

[kovarex]

Back to Topic

I'm reworking the Tutorial on the Wiki (that adds a bomber) and for some reason only the right half of my technology icon is being shown in the research menu
Can anyone tell me why?

I run in the same issue 32 Pixel just work fine but in a very ugly way, if i try to use 64x64 ( wich even the base research imgaes are ) i got only the top left quarter shown, as you can see

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Try to delete crop-cache, it's location depends on system, but it is in the directory where you saves directory is.

[Animar]

I shouldn't do anything if i where half asleep, i apologize that i didn't saw that you already posted a solution for that