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[2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails in remote view
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:52 am
by Niedzwiedzislaw
What did you do?
I ordered robots to lay some bricks near existing rails. I used big selection of bricks to paint the area with new surface.
What happened?
I zoomed out to map view to check if I covered expected area with bricks. I noticed some evident gaps with landfill instead. I zoomed in to re-check - there were ghosts of bricks everywhere, no gaps.
Landfill is very visible but in the same manner other ground is also visible where ghost tiles should be.
What did you expect to happen instead?
I expected zoomed out map view to show ghosts and not "leak" original ground near rails.
Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
Happens always.
- Here all area behind rails is covered with tiles
- zoomed in.png (1.25 MiB) Viewed 822 times
- Here brown spots are clearly visible near curved rails
- zoomed out.png (4.68 KiB) Viewed 822 times
- The same zoomed out view but I marked some of the troubling spots.
- zoomed out and marked.png (14.19 KiB) Viewed 769 times
Re: [2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 11:37 am
by valneq
Nothing in your screenshot looks wrong. Can you highlight visually what exactly is bothering you?
Ghosts in general are see-through. Furthermore, there is 2 different colors of ghosts. Darker ghosts are waiting for materials and robots. Brighter ghosts will shortly be built by a robot that was already assigned the task.
Re: [2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 11:54 am
by Niedzwiedzislaw
Re: [2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:11 pm
by valneq
oooh … so this is primarily about remote view!
Bug report title does not mention remote view at all. I did not read your text carefully I guess …
You could consider renaming topic to emphasise: " Remote View: Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails"
Now that I have seen this, I cannot unsee
Re: [2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails in remote view
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:19 pm
by Niedzwiedzislaw
Perhaps I should have been more explicit with post title. This does seem like one of those things which one does not notice at first but later can't unsee. I have definitely spent many hours not noticing this.
Re: [2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails in remote view
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:58 pm
by boskid
It looks that tile ghosts are not rendering on chart when they detect a colliding entity on top of them. Rails are using custom chart patterns that do not match collision box and as such the gaps become visible in places where rail decided to not draw its pixel due to chart pattern and tile ghost decided to not draw its pixel due to colliding entity.
Re: [2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails in remote view
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 1:39 pm
by Niedzwiedzislaw
That's literal edge case error
Re: [2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails in remote view
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 1:43 pm
by Rseding91
This is now fixed for 2.1.
Re: [2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails in remote view
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 2:07 pm
by Niedzwiedzislaw
Awesome. I'll postpone all my tile laying needs till new release
Re: [2.0.69] Ghost tiles have wrong color near rails in remote view
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 5:51 pm
by valneq
Niedzwiedzislaw wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 2:07 pm
Awesome. I'll postpone all my tile laying needs till new release
Version 2.1 will be months away. At least according to the most recent FFF
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-439