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How to place cliffs by the script?

surface.create_entity?

Bilka wrote: Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:10 am surface.create_entity?

Yes, but placing the ring of cliffs is too complicated.

I'm stuck with this too.

Best I can figure out you have to create_entity the cliff in one of the 8 directions and rotate it 0-19 times.

But what direction and rotation do I have to use and where do I place the cliffs so they form a nice 60% slope for the side of a hexagon for example?

darkfrei wrote: Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:26 am

Bilka wrote: Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:10 am surface.create_entity?

Yes, but placing the ring of cliffs is too complicated.

I can vouch for that. It took me around 2 days of full time work to understand how cliffs work when put into the world.

Rseding91 wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 4:45 am

darkfrei wrote: Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:26 am

Bilka wrote: Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:10 am surface.create_entity?

Yes, but placing the ring of cliffs is too complicated.

I can vouch for that. It took me around 2 days of full time work to understand how cliffs work when put into the world.

Do you have a list of what combination of direction when creating and rotation ends up with what kind of cliff piece?

mrvn wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:47 am Do you have a list of what combination of direction when creating and rotation ends up with what kind of cliff piece?

No, I implemented building them generically so the system just has "a" cliff rotation and you see what it makes when building.

When making cliffs direction is irrelevant. You want cliff_direction.

Rseding91 wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:45 pm

mrvn wrote: Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:47 am Do you have a list of what combination of direction when creating and rotation ends up with what kind of cliff piece?

No, I implemented building them generically so the system just has "a" cliff rotation and you see what it makes when building.

When making cliffs direction is irrelevant. You want cliff_direction.

Could you give an example please. Google doesn't have a single hit for factorio and cliff_direction. Doesn't seem to be in the API docs.

Hmm, I thought it was there... I guess not. I'll add it for 0.17.

Any progress on that and maybe a backport to 0.16? Passing cliff_direction to create_entity doesn't seem to do anything.