who else has stared themselves blind at

[wooden ingot]

holy crap this is huge

[tame plank]

thx, i do encourage you to check out codegreen's version as well once he publishes his, apparently we've independently been making the same thing, his one works through luagui and luarendering whilst mine works through a blueprint book, both mods have upsides 😃

[willow forum]

Amazing!

[paper fern]

Very nice!
But wasn't @azure venture also working on something like this?

#mod-dev-discussion message Oh nvm, you already knew

[tame plank]

in between the last time i checked raiguard's general channel and writing and finishing the mod it got mentioned, first time i heard about it even though a few others apparently have read about it before, i wasn't aware at all something like this already existed

it just annoyed me each time i had to do circuit connectors with any of my mods, and when in the k2 discord there was a cry for help about every entity needing it i decided to finally work on it

[paper fern]

Ha
Well you're first to deliver and publish. The implementation seems really smooth so kudos to you!

Yeah, exactly

[tame plank]

you can find his version on raiguard's discord, not sure how old it is but i'd have to guess weeks or months, his gui version works really well too

[azure venture]

yeah I have a gui version that I meant to publish a month ago and never got around to it lol

[tame plank]

where did you even showcase that one? deep in raiguard's server? :D

and please don't let my mod deter you from uploading yours, there's enough slices of pie for us both since people can pick which style suits them

[olive belfry]

it isnt letting me copy the coords (i already did it with other ones so idk why this doesnt work)

aint lettin me here either

lemme try on other buildings

[tame plank]

when you try to open it it looks for colliding hitboxes in a range of 3

enable the collision box debug render

[olive belfry]

which was the key to open the debug menu?

[tame plank]

f 345 or something

[olive belfry]

shift f4 ok i remember

yk what im enlarging the collision box

[tame plank]

muscle memory can be a funny thing, totally forgetting what something is but just knowing the pattern 😆

[tame plank]

and it doesn't let you open the gui?

drop me your save and I'll have a peek

[olive belfry]

in a sec

should be this right?

its a testing scenario

[tame plank]

as long as it's a save i can take a peek

[olive belfry]

how the hell is it interacting with the super inserter and infinity chest

[tame plank]

since the blueprint book isn't tied to any entity it just checks for entities within 3 range and show them what the offset would be for any of them, in case of compound entity shenanigans

[olive belfry]

then why didnt it check for the smeltery

HERE IS FINE OFC

idk if its an issue with the mod or with my boxes

[tame plank]

eh i don't understand scenarios, popped your blueprint.zip over the blueprint.zip of an empty scenario and the world is just empty, please just give me a save file i can sync with

so yeah if you could just create a world with that scenario and send me that save so i can sync with it, that'd be nice

[olive belfry]

hold on

[olive belfry]

oh btw u can safely use the current version of aop and not the new one its asking you as its not released yet

no new stuff is added yet other than me trying to change the circuit connectors (which went well for everything except the smeltery)

ok i managed to make it connect in the right place

u can still check that out but my work here is done

[tame plank]

I'll still be taking a peek to see what went wrong

[tame plank]

ah i see what's going on, the center of the circuit connector is placed outside the hitbox of the smeltery so it doesn't find it by collision, so it defaults to trying the range check which merely checks the center position of the entity, when i wrote the mod i couldn't really spot a function that does "return all entities within this range who's hitboxes colide", guess i'll need to do an area check which might spot it

[olive belfry]

having other issues right now anyway

[tame plank]

requiring base?

[olive belfry]

wdym

the mod does require base yes

it requires space age too so

[tame plank]

strange that it fails on this then, furnace_circuit_wire_max_distance is not a local variable

[olive belfry]

it never crashed for that

also

arc-furnace.lua is the second machine prototype to load

therefore the first one did go through

which is odd

why did one go and not the other

specifically one of the two that use a furnace prototype and not an assembling machine one

[olive belfry]

what could be the cause of this?

[tame plank]

does it work if you disable all other non-wube mods?

[olive belfry]

lemme try

[olive belfry]

nope still doesnt work

[tame plank]

fixed in 1.0.1

[tame plank]

hmm, weird

[olive belfry]

what could it be then

was the code tested on furnace prototypes too? maybe when they implemented circuits for furnaces they used a slightly different system idk

turned the connector line into a comment for testing

yup

its an issue with furnace prototypes

both my furnace (arc furnace) and recycler (salvager) are crashing when that is in

turned the other into a comment too

oh ok

nevermind

nothing works

it just loaded furnaces first

@tame plank you did test this before realising right

[tame plank]

my mod provides you the arguments to use in the circuit connector builder function

it cannot be assigned to prototypes directly

[olive belfry]

OH

whats the function?

[tame plank]

search base for occurences of make_single_circuit_connector_definition and make_multiple_circuit_connector_definitions

or circuit_connector_definitions.create_

you'll see that basicacally every base thing that has circuits will call those methods

[olive belfry]

only thing that came up is the circuit-connector-sprites.lua file

[tame plank]

peek in circuit-connector-generated-definitions.lua

[olive belfry]

alr found

thx

why does this have 4 lines that are the same?

[tame plank]

you'll have to tweak the shadow offset yourself, but honestly its hardly noticable

[tame plank]

the entity supports 4 directions

[olive belfry]

oh yeah the pipes

i have to do that too right

[tame plank]

yes

[olive belfry]

doesnt the mod make it automatically

[tame plank]

i could not sense any meaningful pattern so im not mimicing one

be glad my mod helps you with positioning

[olive belfry]

it does yeah
so all buildings with pipes need a 4 way definition right

if it doesnt have any i can skip it?

[tame plank]

iirc it checks by prototype, even if it never will rotate it might still demand all of them, not sure

[olive belfry]

you wont believe this but i forgot to put the new connectors to the hydraulic plant

[olive belfry]

odd

some buildings didnt get correct connectors even if the code is literally the same for every of them

or is it...

idk

oddly its all the ones that start with a and b

ok what the fuck

why do specifically the first five connectors not work

these two are literally coded in the same way but the top one doesnt work and the bottom one does

@tame plank help please

[tame plank]

are you assigning the content of the table back into the circuit connector of the entity?

[olive belfry]

yes
For both

[tame plank]

try setting circuit_connector_layer inside the assembling's machine picture set to "higher-object-under"

[olive belfry]

?

still

the cable goes to the center

it isnt going where its supposed to go

graphics arent the problem

its straight up not working

look

[tame plank]

allright that's weird

[olive belfry]

i have to go now

im pissed that i couldnt fix this

[tame plank]

same

[tame plank]

are they all assembhing machine prototypes?

[olive belfry]

No
Of the five that dont work 4 are assembling and one is a furnace
Of the ones that work all are machines except a furnace

[tame plank]

strange

[placid vale]

can i add things to prototypes? (like new variable to store some data?)

[proud copper]

no

[placid vale]

wait thats a thread bru

[proud copper]

Oh yeah we're in a thread huh

[high pewter]

wild hypothesis : could it be because the numbers are the same but refers to building of different size, causing some cases to fail due to being outside allowed range ?

[olive belfry]

They were calculated by @tame plank's mod
Its improbable its the case
Because it wouldve happened to most of them

And the fact its just the first 5 on the list being broken that increases my suspicion

[tame plank]

did you press save on the file? i can only really imagine it would break if the prototypes were different

[high pewter]

make sense and the values on the failing cases are less extreme than those on the working cases ...
except for the variation number, the 25 and 7 are also in correct range ?
i have almost no experience in modding, i was just intringued by the greenhouse sorry x)

[olive belfry]

Countless times

[olive belfry]

Wdym

[high pewter]

when looking back at the values, the positionning of the cases that do not work are less likely to be out of bound that the coordinates for the working cases, my hypothesis was quite bad

[tame plank]

can you send me your current world and your in progress mod? i'll have a go at debugging the connectors

[olive belfry]

Cant
Not home

[olive belfry]

Oh lol

[olive belfry]

As soon as i am i will send in everything tho

If its not to late when i go back
If it is youll have to wait for saturday as im not home tomorrow either

Regardless
Ill send it in as soon as possible

And while you check that after i send it i will try some ideas i had
Which are putting dummy values to see if its a positioning in the file issue and just moving the definitions to the files of the machines themselves

[olive belfry]

@tame plank

[tame plank]

cooking now, peaking in 20 ish mins

[olive belfry]

so?

[tame plank]

thanks for the ping, i forgot

found it

[olive belfry]

what is it?

[tame plank]

something consisting of 26 letters

[olive belfry]

elaborate

[tame plank]

the alphabet

[olive belfry]

wait

then how the hell did the other machines get the correct coords

[tame plank]

they're defined under it

[olive belfry]

yeah

OH

OHHHH

[tame plank]

there we go

[olive belfry]

well

gonna move the definitions to the machines themselves

in their code

[tame plank]

or just require it first

[olive belfry]

boring

and ill have one file less

[broken phoenix]

Thanks for this mod @tame plank 🎉

[tame plank]

i take it you've already put it to good use?

[broken phoenix]

Not yet but will when it comes up again

[white quiver]

Quezler, you are a jewel of this community.

[tame plank]

thanks, only took 193 attempts

it's funny to see how far ive come when looking back, i used to be deadly afraid of global since i just couldn't wrap my head around it, but oh boy the shit I've made since

and understanding the luagui basics since the last few months opened new options 👀