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TL;DR

Field(s) in LuaTile that returns which variation the given tile belongs to.

What ?

With a couple of LUA commands, I can collect all the charted and visible chunks on the map and tiles in those chunks. I can also gather which type the tile belongs to. The missing part is to know which variation it belongs to.
I'd like to have a way to gather the data about the red boxes and blue/green text on the attachment above

Why ?

We are creating an online map viewer for factorio. The concept works without this information, but the result is quite ugly. Unfortunately, this is a server-side script, which means that take_screenshot is out of scope.

@Moderation: Imho this is an interface request.

Just the variation isn't sufficient though. You'd also need to know the coordinates of the other tiles that belong to the same "square".

eradicator wrote: Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:09 pm @Moderation: Imho this is an interface request.

Sorry, didn't find the topic

eradicator wrote: Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:09 pm Just the variation isn't sufficient though. You'd also need to know the coordinates of the other tiles that belong to the same "square".

That's what I meant by the "red boxes and blue/green numbers" part

rolaca11 wrote: Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:22 pm

eradicator wrote: Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:09 pm Just the variation isn't sufficient though. You'd also need to know the coordinates of the other tiles that belong to the same "square".

That's what I meant by the "red boxes and blue/green numbers" part

Just saying that it's insufficient for your goal to have the texture variation information of each ONE tile because that doesn't tell you in which direction multi-tile textures expand. Call me Captain Obvious if you want ;).

(Also "told'cha so". I remember the thread where you originally asked for a solution and i said there wasn't one :P.)