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Posted: **Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:45 am**

Hi

First Question:I've made an assembling machine type entity with idle_animation and animations both have the same animation count and everything
but when the entity start working it disappears, any idea why?

Second Question :I was trying to make starting items for the players,but that worked only in map editing mode,so how to make it affects any mode?

Third Question:This out of curiosity more than actual question ;i'm planning to add brand new belts and enemies,but i've not seen many mods that do that
it just re-tinting them,why is that?

Seeking recommendations from those who made mods :what is the best way to optimize mod structure(if that affects loading),is there something i should add in mod folder to ease mod compatibility?

Thanks in Advance.

Posted: **Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:39 pm**

1. Post your code. Don't make people guess what you've done.

2. See viewtopic.php?p=531991#p531991 .

3. Making new sprites and animations from scratch is time-consuming even if you have any talent for it; with belts and units ("enemies"), you picked two of the most difficult entities in the game. Belts are incredibly unforgiving and have a bizarrely distorted perspective compared to almost everything else. Units ideally would have several different animations for different states (moving, idling, attacking etc.) so you'd need to be good with rigging as well as design. You could easily spend a week on the former and more on the latter if you wanted.

4. I don't fully understand your last request but I think the answer is "no".

Posted: **Thu Apr 22, 2021 7:40 am**

Deadlock989 wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:39 pm 1. Post your code. Don't make people guess what you've done.

2. See viewtopic.php?p=531991#p531991 .

3. Making new sprites and animations from scratch is time-consuming even if you have any talent for it; with belts and units ("enemies"), you picked two of the most difficult entities in the game. Belts are incredibly unforgiving and have a bizarrely distorted perspective compared to almost everything else. Units ideally would have several different animations for different states (moving, idling, attacking etc.) so you'd need to be good with rigging as well as design. You could easily spend a week on the former and more on the latter if you wanted.

4. I don't fully understand your last request but I think the answer is "no".

So i put that code in the control.lua and now there's no items at all in other mode than map editing mode

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script.on_init(onModInit)


function initPlayer(player)
	if player.character == nil then return end
	if global == nil then
		global = {}
	end
	if global.donePlayers == nil then
		global.donePlayers = {}
	end
	if global.donePlayers[player] ~= nil then return end
	global.donePlayers[player] = true

	player.get_inventory(defines.inventory.character_main).clear()
	player.get_inventory(defines.inventory.character_armor).clear()
	player.get_inventory(defines.inventory.character_guns).clear()
	player.get_inventory(defines.inventory.character_ammo).clear()

	local items = {

		
		{"item", 1},
        {"item", 1},
		{"item", 1},
		{"item", 1},
		{"item", 1},
	}
	for _, v in pairs(items) do
		player.insert{name = v[1], count = v[2]}
	end




end

function onPlayerJoined(event)
	local player = game.players[event.player_index]
	initPlayer(player)
end

script.on_event({defines.events.on_player_joined_game, defines.events.on_player_created}, onPlayerJoined)

function onModInit()
	if remote.interfaces["freeplay"] then
		remote.call("freeplay", "set_skip_intro", false)
		remote.call("freeplay", "set_disable_crashsite", false)
		remote.call("freeplay", "set_respawn_items", {"item", 1,"item", 1,"item", 1,"item", 1,"item", 1})
		remote.call("freeplay", "set_created_items", {"item", 1,"item", 1,"item", 1,"item", 1,"item", 1})
	end
		--for _, v in pairs(items) do
		--player.insert{name = v[1], count = v[2]}
	--end
end

script.on_init(onModInit)

and yeah items are duplicate now,but if i remove the one above it gives me an error and if i remove the bottom ones it will be the default "vanilla only items in other mode than map editing"

Posted: **Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:12 am**

Follow the link I gave and then scroll down a few posts to jamiechi1's answer. The table of items is given as key/value pairs where the key is the item name and the value is the number of items to be given, e.g.

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{
	["iron-plate"] = 100,
	["copper-plate"] = 200,
}

Posted: **Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:32 am**

My tutorial also talks about the freeplay starting items interface. If you use set_* without get_* you overwrite items added by other mods.

Posted: **Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:41 am**

Deadlock989 wrote: Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:12 am Follow the link I gave and then scroll down a few posts to jamiechi1's answer. The table of items is given as key/value pairs where the key is the item name and the value is the number of items to be given, e.g.
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{
	["iron-plate"] = 100,
	["copper-plate"] = 200,
}

i've used another code and it worked in every mode ,but apparently there's no console command to remove a starting item from the player?https://wiki.factorio.com/Console because now i have vanilla items in additional of custom items and using this

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player.get_inventory(defines.inventory.character_ammo).clear()

and the rest of clear commands just removes everything including the custom items.

Posted: **Thu Apr 22, 2021 12:07 pm**

Ok problem solved ; for anyone who wants to code this the "noobish" way here's the code:

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script.on_init(function()
	if not remote.interfaces["freeplay"] then return end
	local created_items = remote.call("freeplay", "get_created_items")
	created_items["item"] = 1 --to add it as starting item
	created_items["burner-mining-drill"] = nil--remove vanilla items like this
	created_items["pistol"] = nil
	created_items["firearm-magazine"] = nil
	created_items["stone-furnace"] = nil
	created_items["wood"] = nil
	created_items["iron-plate"] = nil
	remote.call("freeplay", "set_created_items", created_items)
end)

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