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DemiPixel wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kry8lbrHjeY

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delassa wrote:Ok I must say that is the first time I have ever been rick rolled and enjoyed it, that is fantastic man.

Also I think it would be nice to specify entity's direction when creating

Amegatron wrote:Nice library. Though I'm not goot at JS, i wrote a simple code to generate somthing like ROM. Also I noticed some strange things. For example, the generated blueprint has an incorrect preview in game: my combinators are spaced incorrectly in preview and wires are floating in the air But the actual placement is correct though. See the screenshot:

Also I could not understand the units I should specify when creating an entity. I thought 1 is 1 tile in game, but as I saw in your example, 0.5 can also be used.

Here is my code

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const Blueprint = require('factorio-blueprint');

const totalCells = 16;
const cellsPerColumn = 8;
const addressSignal = 'signal_blue';

const bp = new Blueprint();

// Generation

let prevColumn = 0;
let prevGate = null;
for (let i = 0; i < totalCells; i++) {
    const column = Math.floor(i / cellsPerColumn);
    const row = i % cellsPerColumn;

    const constComb = bp.createEntity('constant-combinator', {x: column * 4, y: row});
    constComb.direction = 2;
    const gate = bp.createEntity('decider-combinator', {x: column * 4 + 2, y: row - 0.5}, true)
        .setCondition({
            left: addressSignal,
            operator: '=',
            right: i + 1,
            out: 'signal_everything'
        });
    gate.direction = 2;
    constComb.connect(gate, null, 'in', 'green');

    if (prevColumn == column && prevGate != null) {
        gate.connect(prevGate, 'in', 'in', 'red');
        gate.connect(prevGate, 'out', 'out', 'red');
    }

    prevColumn = column;
    prevGate = gate;
}

bp.center();
console.log(bp.encode());

Also I think it would be nice to specify entity's direction when creating

bp.createEntity(bla)
  .setCondition(bla2)
  .setDirection(2)

DemiPixel wrote:

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bp.createEntity(bla)
  .setCondition(bla2)
  .setDirection(2)

As for the offset, that's an issue I've had as well and have been trying to figure it out. A temporary solution is to use blueprint string's "fixer" button which will fix a blueprint if you click a few times with it. (Is this still in the latest version of Blueprint String?)

Not sure how to fix it yet, unfortunately :/

DemiPixel wrote:
As for the offset, that's an issue I've had as well and have been trying to figure it out. A temporary solution is to use blueprint string's "fixer" button which will fix a blueprint if you click a few times with it. (Is this still in the latest version of Blueprint String?)

Not sure how to fix it yet, unfortunately :/

	// Hack: a) Next item is a decider and the width/pos seems relative to the right-hand side of the entity.
	//       b) Adding the constant combinator has already increased the x position by 1, but to account for
	//          observation (a) another 0.5 has to be added before a decider can be added (deciders are 1.5 wide)
	//

Amegatron wrote: Thanks for feedback. I'll check blueprint "fixer" as soon as I get to Factorio. As for direction - i meant an argument to "createEntity" method so it is created right in the needed direction (in most cases without direction I have to say "true" to "allowOverlap" for combinators and later specify their direction). In your example I suppose entity is first created, then rotated.

nonstickfrypan wrote:Interesting. I have this in my code:

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	// Hack: a) Next item is a decider and the width/pos seems relative to the right-hand side of the entity.
	//       b) Adding the constant combinator has already increased the x position by 1, but to account for
	//          observation (a) another 0.5 has to be added before a decider can be added (deciders are 1.5 wide)
	//

So I obviously ran across a similar issue. Not really sure if my conclusions were correct though... it was weird

Edit: attached is the C code. It's a horrible mess. It's badly written. It's not generic. It's not a library (it was intended to do one thing only and that was make the font "ROM" and some lamps); it was written in about 30 minutes a throwaway code for the specific purpose of encoding the font data... so it's pretty useless but maybe it can help somebody.

DemiPixel wrote: I change the position of the center. I believe if this is off by half a tile, it screws everything up (or something like that). Still not sure.

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ssilk wrote:When I click on the video I see

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Well, I know how to go around such restrictions, but as moderator I need to ask, if you can upload it again without music?