I would use this instead of (or in addition to) chart tags to combine symbols and shapes at runtime rather than hard code them in numerous sprites. Currently I only need 12 sprites to display required combinations, but adding one extra symbol would require ~60 sprites! I think it would also be cool ...

How can I access Prototype/ArtilleryTurret#gun from API?
Similarly for Prototype/ArtilleryWagon#gun.

It doesn't seem to appear in LuaEntityPrototype.guns.

I also wonder why multiple guns can't be mounted on an ArtilleryWagon!?

Cheers.

In data.lua, I can scrape the current mod name from debug.getinfo(1).source, but is there a more elegant way?

Does this help?
Friday Facts #172 - Blending and Rendering

I was reminded recently that in general Factorio expects a premultiplied alpha colour - there is a pre-mult function in core/lualib/util.lua I often use.

I want to center a row in a table (rather than center the cell content in the row). The table has a minimal_height as shown by it's background image. The minimal_height setting appears to affect the table but not the row. The StyleSpecification.vertical_align affects the contents of the rows, but no...

RE: LuaGameScript.auto_save Is there definitive info anywhere on which characters are/not permitted for the filename? My random spot use of unicode chars suggests that if the factorio fonts support it, so does auto_save - with some (presumably file system driven) exceptions. It's these exceptions I'...

Thanks for advice.

Current intent is to close all mod guis that are saved open, remove custom selection-tool from hand, enable personal roboport and such things to give a clean start on resuming play.

I want to do some light maintenence of my mod (using game object) once on every game load, so I do this by subscribing to on_tick and then unsubscribing in it's handler.

Is this the recommended method? Are there any pitfalls I need to look out for? Particularly wrt to multiplayer?

Cheers

Thanks Bilka, I think the confusion was because I've become used to most things like ScriptRenderTarget having a reference on the Concepts page - often with extra explanation or examples. So it's much better that CustomScriptRenderTarget avoids confusion with ScriptRenderTarget as you show, but I su...

Just curious really... If someone looks into the zlib stuff at some stage, perhaps you could look at why 'autosave-compression-level=none' is still setting the compression method to Deflate (8) rather than Store (0)? The compression level appears to be "no compression", so it's fast, but D...

Interesting thanks.

Edit:

Rseding91 wrote: ↑

Fri May 01, 2020 2:31 am

I fixed it for the next release so it will mark them as stored when no-compression is used.

Is there any info around on the implementation of Factorio's zip file handling? I've started using the 'autosave-compression-level=none' option in config.ini, but getting some unexpected values in the file headers of the resulting zip file (well possibly unexpected because I don't fully understand t...

Thanks Posila. Apologies for that.

For my future reference... you can't currently use lualib util.color(hex) function for this!

wiki.factorio.com/Rich_text shows #AARRGGBB, but it looks to me in-game like #RRBBGGAA ?

From LuaRendering.draw_polygon ... vertices :: array of ScriptRenderTarget: target :: Position or LuaEntity target_offset :: Vector (optional): Only used if target is a LuaEntity. but 'vertices' doesn't seem to take ScriptRenderTargets ! To be fair, the ScriptRenderTarget in the above code is plain ...

Sneaky! Unfortunately not practical as I need members of selection-tool not available in decendant planners.

Apologies - meant as a question rather than complaint!

Verbose option now (re?)discovered and tamed thank you.

Does anyone know how to trigger the construction zone visualization?

I've made a Prototype/SelectionTool, but can't make it trigger the personal roboport construction radius visualisation (like that of a Deconstruction planner).

Cheers.

I create_entity the below invisible chest, set_stack some items into it and can then order_deconstruction and the construction bots will happily empty then deconstruct it. I can't figure out though how to hide the red X when I order_deconstruction - any suggestions? { type = "container", n...