Is there a Blueprint Editor?
Posted: Sat May 06, 2017 11:09 am
I find a few aspects of working with Blueprints in-game annoying and tedious.
Of course, for one-off Blueprints, such things must be tolerated, but I'm trying to build a library of 20-30 "main" Blueprints for 0.15.
One thing that bothers me is that I can't rename an already-created Blueprint. The name/rename button is non-functional. Instead, I have to jump through numerous hoops of copying and re-creating the Blueprint before I am allowed to give it a new name, and then I have to type in the entire name, even though I may only have wanted to make a small change to the existing name, such as append a x2 in front of the name.
Secondly, adding small things, adding new things, or replacing items with higher tiers, e.g. Small Poles with Medium Poles or Stone Furnaces with Steel Furnaces. Again, I have to re-create the entire Blueprint, a very tedious process, in order to add a very few things or replace a very few things with a few other very similar things.
Often, I find myself wanting to create several variants of the same Blueprint.
For instance, I might want to make a tier-1 Smelter setup based on Stone Furnaces, Electric Inserters and wooden Small Poles. I also want to have a tier-2 setup based on Steel Furnaces, some use of Fast Inserters, and full use of metallic Medium Poles. Finally, I migth want even more elaborate setups, small "islands" that do stuff and which are surrounded by 2 or 3 tile wide walking paths paved with Brick. And possibly I'll want another similar set of "island" Blueprints but larger, and surrounded by 4 tile wide roads paved with Concrete.
All these multiplying/editing/renaming existing Blueprints is horribly tedious.
I'm thinking that using an out-of game graphical editor would speed up the process immensely.
Is there such an editor?
Of course, for one-off Blueprints, such things must be tolerated, but I'm trying to build a library of 20-30 "main" Blueprints for 0.15.
One thing that bothers me is that I can't rename an already-created Blueprint. The name/rename button is non-functional. Instead, I have to jump through numerous hoops of copying and re-creating the Blueprint before I am allowed to give it a new name, and then I have to type in the entire name, even though I may only have wanted to make a small change to the existing name, such as append a x2 in front of the name.
Secondly, adding small things, adding new things, or replacing items with higher tiers, e.g. Small Poles with Medium Poles or Stone Furnaces with Steel Furnaces. Again, I have to re-create the entire Blueprint, a very tedious process, in order to add a very few things or replace a very few things with a few other very similar things.
Often, I find myself wanting to create several variants of the same Blueprint.
For instance, I might want to make a tier-1 Smelter setup based on Stone Furnaces, Electric Inserters and wooden Small Poles. I also want to have a tier-2 setup based on Steel Furnaces, some use of Fast Inserters, and full use of metallic Medium Poles. Finally, I migth want even more elaborate setups, small "islands" that do stuff and which are surrounded by 2 or 3 tile wide walking paths paved with Brick. And possibly I'll want another similar set of "island" Blueprints but larger, and surrounded by 4 tile wide roads paved with Concrete.
All these multiplying/editing/renaming existing Blueprints is horribly tedious.
I'm thinking that using an out-of game graphical editor would speed up the process immensely.
Is there such an editor?