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Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:45 am**

Is there a way to force the game generate and scan large area of the map on the generation process? AFAIK Klonan's initial scan mod now is just requesting scan at the first tick, not from start.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:55 am**

What's the difference between the first tick and the start?

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:00 pm**

The game only generate 1 chunk per tick if you request chart on the first tick. In contrast, if it is done before the game started like in the current initial map generation, it will generate all chunk as fast as possible. I don't want to wait at least 2 minutes to see 100x100 chunk area around me.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:38 pm**

https://wiki.factorio.com/Console#Revea ... the_player

/c local radius=150
game.player.force.chart(game.player.surface, {{game.player.position.x-radius, game.player.position.y-radius}, {game.player.position.x+radius, game.player.position.y+radius}})

and just

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/c game.forces.player.chart(game.player.surface, {{x = -4000, y = -4000}, {x = 4000, y = 4000}})

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:18 am**

Not what I want darkfrei, I want to have 100x100 area scanned the from the very first tick I pop up in the factorio world

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:20 am**

evildogbot100 wrote:Not what I want darkfrei, I want to have 100x100 area scanned the from the very first tick I pop up in the factorio world

On first tick place custom radar, which open this area and don't makes scanning.

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:56 am**

Didn't 0.15 add a new option to start the game with a larger area of the map revealed?

I'd look into that if I were you (can't myself, don't have access to the game here)

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:36 am**

In 0.16 you can do

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game.surfaces[1].force_generate_chunk_requests()

which will force generation of all requested chunks in that tick

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 5:31 pm**

Klonan wrote:In 0.16 you can do
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game.surfaces[1].force_generate_chunk_requests()
which will force generation of all requested chunks in that tick

Will this have some sort or progress bar? Or more correctly: If i call this in on_init after requesting a (large) bunch of chunks, will the player stare at a black screen (good?) while the game "freezes" to generate the chunks, or will they already be able to see the first screen of the starting area while the game is frozen (bad)?

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 7:23 pm**

So, first (Tick #0) tick opens always 13x13 =169 chunks, then one chunk on tick #32:

log of chunks creating

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:32 pm**

eradicator wrote:
Klonan wrote:In 0.16 you can do
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game.surfaces[1].force_generate_chunk_requests()
which will force generation of all requested chunks in that tick
Will this have some sort or progress bar? Or more correctly: If i call this in on_init after requesting a (large) bunch of chunks, will the player stare at a black screen (good?) while the game "freezes" to generate the chunks, or will they already be able to see the first screen of the starting area while the game is frozen (bad)?

You won't see anything, it will be frozen on the generate map GUI, as if nothing has changed, so essentially it works perfectly as the OP would desire

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 10:48 am**

Is there any equivalent method in 0.15?

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:16 am**

evildogbot100 wrote:Is there any equivalent method in 0.15?

No

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