I was playing multiplay and found this glitchy performance issue. I guess cause entity is Advanced Roboport coming from 248k mod. When electicity is low much of them start to demand so high eletricity, and causing deadful lag. I have no idea why and I guess modder of 248k also may have no idea so I ...

Bad news. I wanted the developers to pay more attention to what Factorio should become as a game, but the developers seem to see Factorio as a finished program. No, they are looking at the big picture. As Rseding91 pointed out implementing your suggestion would mean losing a very important optimiza...

Bad news. I wanted the developers to pay more attention to what Factorio should become as a game, but the developers seem to see Factorio as a finished program.

TL;DR Please add "gun-range" modifier prototype to https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/ModifierPrototype What ? Which allows making mods about increasing weapon/turret ranges during game via researching. Why ? Why not? There is damage upgrade exists. There is speed upgrade exists. Why is ther...

I used a temporary mod containing locale folder to sort unknown permissions at top. 1.png I was translating permissions string into Korean in Crowdin, I wanted translated description of each permission matches to precise meaning. I did much of things, but couldn't find what they(unchecked) do. It se...

New feature in v0.2 ~ v0.2.4 "detach/attach key names" now recognise special words like __1__, __CONTROL__blabla__, \n, , [tooltip=blabla], [/font]... And convert them into "Emoji" unicode character which translation program ignores. This means you can simply whole copy & pas...

I made an web application to manage .cfg strings. It can compare main .cfg(mod author's language) texts with outdated/incomplete/traslate-exclusive's .cfg texts. Main purpose is to find missing keys and merge into previous incomplete .cfg file, and rearrange key lines same to main .cfg. https://x260...

I catched the point of problem.
"map-settings.example.json" file in released zip file is missing newly added parameter, which is newly added in "data\base\prototypes\map-settings.lua"

--start-server-load-scenario <scenario> commandline parameter for factorio 1.1 for windows getting failed. --start-server <savefile> works ok. example factorio.exe --start-server-load-scenario scenario_name ... See "0.003 Program arguments:" below for detailed running command I used. It's ...

corrupt_save_test.zip I was playing with events, I tried to log every events in global table. I found a case that allows save without warning but making cannot load the save again. Reproduce : - Download scenario and upzip in scenario folder to play it. - It's writing some LuaObjects caught in even...

I just updated Event Trace mod,
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/0-event-trace

Now saving event log at global variable scope became possible if gvv mod is active too.
They are in collaborative now!
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/gvv

My mistake. I didn't know built-in /c command already can access mod's sandbox using /c __<mod_name>__ header. So I updated gvv to 0.2.1 and removed /g-c command I was made. Still you can see source code of them at 0.2.0 source if you have interest. Also I made gvv to generate pasteable code to make...

Lua API global Variable Viewer (gvv) 0.2.0 update. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/gvv/changelog Now gvv mod is updated to 0.2.0 and have commands similar to built-in commands /c and /sc . To make it available to run lua code in the sandbox of each mod which loaded gvv's remote module. /g-c --[[<mod_n...

I made 2 mods usable in actual game. Lua API Event Trace https://mods.factorio.com/mod/0-event-trace This mod monitors events listed in defines.events Provides filtering function. Lua API global Variable Viewer (gvv) https://mods.factorio.com/mod/gvv You can explore global table of map or each mod y...

Also the one example you listed out of all the things in concepts not working is a LuaObject and has .help(). Nope. I can't access help function. May be in your source code, help is alive but something is overrided it. LuaMapSettings: unknown path help stack traceback: (command):1: in function <(co...

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 03, 2020 3:58 pm

Everything listed in https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/Concepts.html is just basic tables; just iterate them to see what properties they have.

And iterating the object in concepts such as giving me only a __self key.

.help() already works on all of LuaBootstrap, LuaRemote, LuaCommandProcessor, LuaSettings, LuaRCON, LuaRendering. Are you sure? Try this on base 1.0 /c local a={game,script,remote,commands,settings,rcon,rendering} local fail={} for _,v in pairs(a) do local b,c=pcall(function() local d=v.help() end)...

I'm making a global variable viewer. And it now have tree structure gui and can dig inside infinitely through tables and luaobjects having table-like properties. And added a function to open directory of default global luaobjects too. I'm using .help() method to get available property names for obje...

Ah, not only game.
If script, remote, commands, settings, rcon, rendering of scenario level are inside of global table of scenario level,
They also causes crash when global is called by remote from mod.

I was making a mod to monitor global table of other mod or map itself and encountered a crash. After tracking, I was able to extract short code causing crash. I wrote short sample mod and scenario to help you reproduce crash. Load both and try /test command in game. Crash log is included in zip file...