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Detailed View (default hotkey: alt) shows inserters output and input with yellow arrows point inwards and outwards from the inserter

It would be a lot easier to setup if this was added to the combinators as well! Especially when you lose the green red cables every time you do it the wrong way. I hope that bug will be moved from minor issues and solved soon!™

For easier setup it would also be cool if the input and output data from combinators (not numeric only icons) could be shown in a similar fashion in detailed view!

Also cake!

What do you guys think?

I agree with feature request 100%, I was about to make a post of my own on the subject and even made an image to demonstrate:

I agree some visual aids would be very useful indeed because reverse engineering a circuit design by the tangle of wires everywhere is a bit difficult.
In the meantime, the side of the combinator closest to the sign (ie. ">" or "=", etc) is the output. I suppose that's how you could memorize which side the output is. I think it's a bit ambiguous.

Also maybe adding a debug overlay to highlight the connected wires of the combinator/pole/anything you are hovering over.

On an unrelated matter- I just noticed that the player's shadow falls in a different direction than the combinators'....

Dev-iL wrote:On an unrelated matter- I just noticed that the player's shadow falls in a different direction than the combinators'....

You could have noticed that on any screenshot.

Dev-iL wrote:On an unrelated matter- I just noticed that the player's shadow falls in a different direction than the combinators'....

Nobody knows how many suns the planet has.. :p

FishSandwich wrote:

Dev-iL wrote:On an unrelated matter- I just noticed that the player's shadow falls in a different direction than the combinators'....

Nobody knows how many suns the planet has.. :p

If there was more than one sun, we'd see more than one shadow per entity.

deepdriller wrote:

FishSandwich wrote:

Dev-iL wrote:On an unrelated matter- I just noticed that the player's shadow falls in a different direction than the combinators'....

Nobody knows how many suns the planet has.. :p

If there was more than one sun, we'd see more than one shadow per entity.

Nobody knows the locations of said suns and whether a part of their surface is blocked. :p

I support this thread.
Mad props if the detailed info stuff is exposed to modders so they themselves can add arrows onto their mod buildings/parts/whathaveya.

Sander Buruma wrote:In the meantime, the side of the combinator closest to the sign (ie. ">" or "=", etc) is the output. I suppose that's how you could memorize which side the output is. I think it's a bit ambiguous.

A bit ambiguous is an understatement for the decider combinator.
The operator sign doesn't even move when you flip the damn thing!

Also: why doesn't Factorio have a high-contrast mode, for the visually impaired? Or for those engineers who are tired of squinting at good art work and would rather have a high-contrast view?

As for shadows? The planet(s) Factorio takes place on is bends light through the fourth dimension.
That's why it falls from different directions.

Xunie wrote:As for shadows? The planet(s) Factorio takes place on is bends light through the fourth dimension.
That's why it falls from different directions.

Sounds legit.

Just saw this was added in FF #122. Thanks!

Will any mod please move this to "implemented"?

Dev-iL wrote:Will any mod please move this to "implemented"?

Nice necro

thanks by the way

And... How can i get this result? When Alt is active, i can only see the arrows, not the values

Evilmaster_Qc wrote:And... How can i get this result? When Alt is active, i can only see the arrows, not the values

In game options look for checkbox like "Show combinator settings in alt mode"

PacifyerGrey wrote:

Evilmaster_Qc wrote:And... How can i get this result? When Alt is active, i can only see the arrows, not the values

In game options look for checkbox like "Show combinator settings in alt mode"

Thank you so much!!