Problem: Requester chests lose their "set requests" ability IF its set by a circuit condition AND the chest changes forces. They regain it when reloading the save file (possible desync bug). I noticed this when trying to use set requests using my rp_steam_roboports mod + SE. The requester...

+1 I spent over an hour trying to figure this out in a mod I'm making

I think this is also true for heat-based crafting machines. The pollution will show up in tooltips but not in-game.

They are turned off when they are marked for deconstruction. Requesters cancel their requests and providers cancel their pickups. Could it simulate the mark-for-deconstruction behavior?

The mod portal's highlighted mods for 2023-07-03 until 2023-07-09 showed the cheats category twice. This feels a little redundant. Can you limit each category to only showing up once per week?

Thank you! Now I have another reason to be excited for the expansion.

the "dice" property was definitely the worst offender. Turning that off stopped the crashes and most of the graphics glitches. After I removed that, I tried testing each layer individually and then tried turning them on in different permutations. I was able to find one where textures still...

Oh, I thought dice meant pick a random sprite, not slice a sprite. I'll check what it does with that turned off this evening.

Can you update the prototype docs to say that? There's no comments at all about what dice does.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Types/Animation#dice_x

I keep getting "HTTP ERROR" when uploading attachments.

Here's a link to download the mod, save game, and logs

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

I'm using a fire entity prototype with multiple layers for the picture. One layer is a standard animation, the other two are a single frame from a different animation repeated. The the animations with the repeated frame seems to render unallocated textures/random stuff in the atlas. layer #1, a sing...

That works perfectly with zero fuss for the little pilot light sprite on fluid turrets. I wonder what other ones the standard ortho formula works well for.

This snippet from "Factorio\data\base\prototypes\entity\fire.lua" looks promising. It translates 3D model coordinates to Factorio2D ones to place the little pilot light on flamethrower turrets. It translates a 3D point for all rotations across multiple animation frames to 2D points. for r ...

Thank you for those links. They're very enlightening. I had no idea that rotations were processed non-linearly. I had noticed that I could get my formulas to be accurate near the cardinal directions but never inbetween. I bet the non linear math is what threw me off. I'll play around with those form...

The `fire` prototype is used for both spitter puddles and fires. It has a number of properties for merging fires, adding fuel to fires, secondary animations, and a mysterious `uses_alternative_behavior` flag. The documentation for these is sparse and I'd like to avoid hours and hours of guess and c...

It's reassuring that you had trouble with it too. The trigonometry struggles are real. It took me a while to figure out how to translate a 3D point in the model, to a 2D orthographic sprite coordinate, and finally to a 2D Factorio coordinate. One of the oddities is how the turret's barrel basically ...

It would be an honor to have you make a mod with them. I have had three main challenges: 1. Every single entity uses a different magic formula for calculating the muzzle offsets. It is not just that each AttackParameters works (drastically) differently. There are even differences between turret type...

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Yay! Thanks!

Can you document the lighting and material setups you use to render entities? It's hard to match it exactly by eyeballing.