Factoriopedia Extended

[pale zephyr]

Half of me wants procedural demos for production machines, the second half realises the mod compatibility nightmare

[jagged bison]

that sounds so cool, but also, for every mod dev out there

it sounds hellish

[pale zephyr]

My plan is to have at least vanilla and space age support

[pale zephyr]

demonstrations for logistic chests

gonna try the procedural manufacturer animations tomorrow

[tepid wing]

holy shitttttttttttttttt

[tepid wing]

...maybe you could make it so mod authors could implement their own simulations somehow? or override existing ones? (in cases where they change enough recipes that it might cause problems)

[pale zephyr]

Simulation is quite easy to use already, but I'll still polish it before the release

Basically its

1. Scene setup
2. Event markers
3. Loop length marker

[hushed zodiac]

Thats pretty slick

Perhaps i need to make some tips simulations for my mods... 🤔

[wind meadow]

I still need to get the display for the chests in WideChests to show both horizontal and vertical to display the fact that I made them rotatable for @modern goblet.

Though with this system, if there's a way to showcase it by blueprinting it and showing it getting pasted rotated would be nice, but I'm not sure how practical

[wind meadow]

Btw, how exactly do you define it? Specifically, can it be done across mods?

Because I have my own mod that I wanted to let other mods define their own modules for. I did this by using hidden string startup settings with a filepath to require:
https://github.com/PennyJim/gui-modules/blob/main/settings.lua
https://github.com/PennyJim/gui-modules/blob/main/gui.lua#L23-L35
(Also check out data.lua if you want to see my module validation)

[modern goblet]

I could probably do it

There's a few bugs I have to fix tonight anyway

pretty major ones lmao

[wind meadow]

I was half just verbalizing a thought I had

[modern goblet]

some are with the control.lua and some are incompatible with other mods

But penny, feel free to do whatever with the mod

You are a collaborator

You can just add changes

Or use graphics

Or code

It's open source anyways

[wind meadow]

Hey, the other half was me bringing your attention to this dope thing

[modern goblet]

Lmao what dope thing

Oh

Lmao

Gui modules

?

[wind meadow]

Did you even notice this is a thread for the showcase channel?

[modern goblet]

Iips

Lmao

Oh favtoriopedia simulations

Yeah the code is there for my mods

Like it's already there

The code for the simulations

Coz I was going to implement custom ones then I decided I wanted to release now lmao

[pale zephyr]

Each simulation type is a function registered in remote, then in data-updates.lua

prototype.factoriopedia_simulation = {
    mods = { "factoriopedia-extended" },
    init = [[remote.call("factoriopedia-extended", "function_name")]]
}

So if you add your own entities and such, just add this in data.lua, or overwrite the generated simulation in data-final-fixes.lua

[pale zephyr]

Added generated simulations for inserters

[jagged bison]

pretty

[pale zephyr]

hardest so far - simulations for mining drills

It is made to adapt to modded drills as well - it adjusts the viewport zoom, belt location, cycles ores and if a drill needs fluid to mine an ore it attaches pipes

But for now it can't work with non-electric drills

[tepid wing]

awesome as fuck

[pale zephyr]

I should not be given any graphical design tasks

[pale zephyr]

omega drill ever so slightly exposes the simulation

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