You use the item in the cursor stack to get the blueprint entities,eradicator wrote:@Klonan:
From personal experience:It's really difficult to get this remotely usable without any mod support at all
- on_player_setup_blueprint doesn't tell you which entity has been blueprinted. Trying to guess from the bounding box sounds horribly hacky.
- If they're not in the blueprint there's probably no item that can place them. Is it save to add them anyway?
- Even if it is, adding hidden entities to blueprints means they show up in the components list and can be removed by the player. Thus it's not safe to rely on them.
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@OP:
If it's feasible for your mod, try making the entity that carries the wires the main object, and hide the others.
I want to make separate input and output for my composite entity (like a decider combinator) and I also plan to use some invisible constant combinators to save blue printable setup information I tried to look into other mods with composite entities (LTN and AAI) but could not find what I'm doing wrongeradicator wrote:@OP:
If it's feasible for your mod, try making the entity that carries the wires the main object, and hide the others.
Klonan wrote:I would recommend using this event hook:
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/eve ... _blueprint
And then editing the blueprint to include the entities that the blueprint missed
You misunderstand. get_blueprint_entities only gets a table of the blueprint, but there is no association between i.e. the entity with entity_number = 2, and the actual LuaEntity that it was created from. So for that approach to work all relevant entities need to already be part of the blueprint, or else the bp won't contain the connections in the first place. Maybe in your usecase it works because the connection is between main/hidden and always the same?Klonan wrote:You use the item in the cursor stack to get the blueprint entities,
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{
type = "electric-pole",
name = "CW-output-pole",
max_health = 10000,
maximum_wire_distance = 9,
supply_area_distance = 2,
flags = {"placeable-player", "player-creation", "placeable-off-grid",},
order = "y",
icon = "__CW-power-combinator__/graphics/blank.png",
icon_size = 1,
draw_copper_wires = false,
collision_box = {{0,0},{0,0}},
collision_mask = {"not-colliding-with-itself"},
selection_box = {{0.3,-0.5},{0.9,0.5}},
connection_points = {
{
shadow = {
green = {0.7,0.2},
red = {0.7,-0.4}
},
wire = {
green = {0.7,0.2},
red = {0.7,-0.4}
}
},
},
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filename = "__CW-power-combinator__/graphics/blank.png",
height = 1,
priority = "low",
width = 1
},
pictures = {
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direction_count = 1,
priority = "low",
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height = 1,
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shift = {0, 0},
}
},