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No Shadow Mod

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 11:55 pm
by Orillien
Can someon write a mod to remove ALL the shadows ? Or at least the shadows of the robots. I have multiple of dozens of thousands of them and the fps goes down dadurch. Removing the shadows would help keep the FPS a bit higher.

Re: No Shadow Mod

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 7:19 am
by GrumpyJoe
Dein Übersetzer hat bei der Hälfte aufgegeben :P

Isn't there a graphic setting for this?

Re: No Shadow Mod

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:33 am
by Koub
You can have better : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/invisible-robots
No visible shadows, not even visible robots.
But I think it won't change the performance of your game.

Re: No Shadow Mod

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 10:26 am
by Pi-C
Koub wrote: Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:33 am You can have better : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/invisible-robots
No visible shadows, not even visible robots.
But I think it won't change the performance of your game.
Not quite sure about that. The mod removes all animations from the prototypes, so I'd expect that making the bots invisible would have an effect on performance.

However, removing just the shadows won't. Apparently, if you use a certain animation in the prototype, there must be the matching shadow animation:

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Error while loading entity prototype "construction-robot" (construction-robot): Construction robot working frames doesn't equal construction robot shadow working frames
Orillien wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 11:55 pm Can someon write a mod to remove ALL the shadows ? Or at least the shadows of the robots. I have multiple of dozens of thousands of them and the fps goes down dadurch. Das Entfernen derer Schatten würde helfen die FPS etwas höher zu halten.
Of course, one could replace the original shadow graphics with a blank. But that will make the game only visually cleaner (no shadows moving through your field of view), while the animations still would run. So no performance gain.

Re: No Shadow Mod

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:33 pm
by Orillien
GrumpyJoe wrote: Sat Feb 12, 2022 7:19 am Dein Übersetzer hat bei der Hälfte aufgegeben :P

Isn't there a graphic setting for this?
No idea what you mean, it's all in english as you can see. xD And no there is no setting for this.

Re: No Shadow Mod

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:37 pm
by Orillien
Koub wrote: Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:33 am You can have better : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/invisible-robots
No visible shadows, not even visible robots.
But I think it won't change the performance of your game.
You were right, it doesnt change the performance. I got 50k logistic robots, and yes i need them all, and my fps are around 30.