Output SVG "screenshot" of [part of] game world
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:35 pm
My end goal here is to be able to visualize part of the game world mid-tick while debugging another mod, so I don't have to keep mentally processing the positions and directions of entities that are being modified during the run of a script. A convenient side effect would be getting that visualization at any other desired time.
The meat of this mod would be to do find_entities and find_tiles_filtered (and maybe find_decoratives_filtered) to find all the stuff in a given area, then to use the prototypes* to get the paths to the sprites, then assemble and write_file a SVG for all the things in the appropriate positions. Then that SVG could be viewed outside the game for a static view of that part of the game world, drawing images from the game data paths.
* - I think sprite paths aren't available at runtime from prototypes, so this info would need to be passed from the data stage to the runtime stage somehow
The meat of this mod would be to do find_entities and find_tiles_filtered (and maybe find_decoratives_filtered) to find all the stuff in a given area, then to use the prototypes* to get the paths to the sprites, then assemble and write_file a SVG for all the things in the appropriate positions. Then that SVG could be viewed outside the game for a static view of that part of the game world, drawing images from the game data paths.
* - I think sprite paths aren't available at runtime from prototypes, so this info would need to be passed from the data stage to the runtime stage somehow