#Unless there's any major problems, all
mellow quiver
It's the Smashmouth planet
cobalt storm
Lightning by daytime? Unplayable!
mellow quiver
I know i know, I went with rule of cool
It's literally the one thing everyone tells me lol
I feel like if I restricted it to the backside of the planet, everyone would not be able to see it and thus just be grumpy at me
but man it looks so sweet -.-
cobalt storm
hmm, I think bright blue flashes stand out well enough even if they cover a third of the planet :P
fresh storm
the fulgora lightnings do look odd since they are synchronized over the entire planet
paper vapor
i'm really tempted now to request that you make a standalone mod that changes the existing planet map to use these animations
fulgura lightning feels a bit off, yeah, and in a way that i think is hard to describe other than the planet wide simultaneity
is it too connected? 🤔
fresh storm
that too, looks more like a rift of sorts
mellow quiver
I'd be happy to -- but is it possible to have planetary animations in the starmap?
paper vapor
i don't know if the star map can have luarendering in it
mellow quiver
Well, it does sound like a lovely thing and I'll totally do it if the how can be worked out
Meanwhile
i have decided to at least make a version where the lightning is on only the dark side of the planet. It's rendering now and will share tomorrow morning heehee
(to be clear, I'm not winging -- everyone made that feedback with love 🙂 )
it might also solve the other most common feedback I got, which was that it was weird to have a planet-wide lightning strike basically
This is what it looks like, anyway. 🙂 Not bad, actually.
paper vapor
It also makes sense that lightning is only visible on the dark side; the sunlight drowns it out otherwise
mellow quiver
yes but have you considered the rule of cool
(but in all seriousness i know what you mean)
paper vapor
i am personally a big fan of "bright looks normal; dark side is all glowy"
maybe i should add bioluminescence to gleba
paper vapor
i meant the entities and tiles, but yeah, you did!
mellow quiver
wait i thought gleba had that blue bioluminescent forest
paper vapor
hmm, i don't remember that one, but maybe i just didn't see it when i was on gleba
true yacht
Gleba has too much of a metallic reflection, as if its surface was completely smooth
But other than that wow its all incredible
twin mist
It seems I missed why you are doing this. What will the animations be used for?
paper vapor
It seems I missed why you are doing this. What will the animations be used for?
There's a project he's working on called "Hidden Worlds", which is an overhaul mod for Space Age
The planet renders are a bit of scope creep from the overhaul mod, I think
fresh storm
It seems I missed why you are doing this. What will the animations be used for?
See here for what codegreen has been cooking up for it: #mod-dev-showcase message
mellow quiver
So, the animations are for the starmap for Hidden Worlds, yes.
It's not scope creep -- it's something I wanted to do for a long time, though with Space Age, I had more planets to do it with
... i dislike that a lot less than I thought I would
A B test! Which do you prefer?
A: Darkside Only Lightning
B: Planetwide Lightning
lyric fjord
it seems still a bit too uniform, maybe limit it to small random areas with voronoi? Could also use the distance to edge to fade it out so there is not hard stop edges?
pearl sand
This actually makes me want to live on nauvis it looks so tropical and cozy..
hybrid mist
One cool detail you could add is vary the rotation speed depending on the day/night cycle in-game
cobalt storm
Vulcanus be like 
exotic torrent
i used those clips on video player i made ingame with lamps on spaceplatform 😄
winged granite
damn
exotic torrent
How?
each lamp has a packed rgb signal as its “name”, so assign every lamp a different signal but don’t give them a value yet. connect all the lamps together with one wire.
now make a constant combinator.
convert the video into frames (images). for example, if you want 20 fps, convert 1 second of the video into 20 frames.
tke frame 1 and extract the rgb value of every pixel. for example, take the top-left pixel and convert it to a packed rgb value.
in the constant combinator for frame 1, put the lamp signal that matches the top-left lamp and assign it the packed rgb value from that pixel.
repeat this for all pixels in the frame.
if you want 20 fps, run each frame for 3 ticks:
0–3 ticks → frame 1
3–6 ticks → frame 2
6–9 ticks → frame 3
use deciders to control when each frame plays, like:
if T ≥ 0 and ≤ 3 → output frame 1
if T > 3 and ≤ 6 → output frame 2
and that’s basically how the video playback works.
in the clip i sent it uses about 300 constant combinators for all frames per 1/9 of the screen. the screen is split into 9 parts, and each part has its own ~300 combinators because of the game signal limits (around 3k signals max).
also here’s a post where i play bad apple lol 😄
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1rt35yh/my_space_platform_for_shattered_planet/