#RRF
inner portal
don't worry about it 😭 it just works™
i put a note on the mod page that diagonal connections are WIP too, i'll figure it out eventually 
keen flax
Looking at the diagonal railgun in the FFF it looks like the pipe connections go in different directions. https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/blog-sync/fff-432-railgun-concept.png
inner portal
I could easily switch pipe directions depending on the railguns direction, so I'll probably do that too
pine shadow
Looking at the diagonal railgun in the FFF it looks like the pipe connections go...
I'm making a very wild guess that the models for this might have been made but abandoned. try asking the wube team
young pelican
making good progress 👍
young pelican
Looking at the diagonal railgun in the FFF it looks like the pipe connections go...
That's the connection I had in mind as well in that example picture I showed. (I made it a bit confusing since there was one where there could be a pipe between the two connections)
young pelican
Also, something for the future: I noticed railguns cannot be rotated so luckily you wont have to deal with that after its been placed but if it is part of a blueprint (or copy-pasta) it can still be flipped/mirrored. Ultimately it would probably be nice to then also have the assembler be flipped with it. (I very much assume this is something you can check when the railgun entity is placed and you place your assembler)
inner portal
oh i think i set a not-blueprintable flag on the hidden assembler actually, so only the railgun will be a part of the blueprint. Haven't tried it yet, but when a blueprinted railgun is built, it should place its hidden assembler like normal
young pelican
Yea thats how it usually is with compound entities, you only have the actual entity in the blueprint and then when it is placed the usual code for placing the hidden assembler will run like normal
inner portal
that's good 😸 ig the pipe connections cannot be flipped then
young pelican
Hmm, they can, since ultimately with a "north" connection it will still rotate according to the entities direction. Same with the flipped state, it should be enough to just read the mirroring from the railgun and then set mirroring on your assembler (it's a read/write property)
And again, since the railgun won't be rotating after it has been placed you don't have to worry about the assembler not aligning (or whatever) afterwards
(railguns also cannot be flipped after being placed)
Also, just looked at the code and saw "IHATEROTATIONSGODDAMN" 😄
I agree with that
Hmm, reading & writing mirroring won't work since the railgun (aka AmmoTurret) doesn't (need to) support fluids (and thus had no need to be flipped)
craggy scaffold
Neat, nice mod. I'll include it in Hard Space.
young pelican
Ohhh I see you decided to just mirror the fluid boxes depending on the direction. That's a good idea. Also, I noticed inserters can take the new ammo out of both the hidden assembler and the railgun itself. You can disable this with the no-automated-item-removal flag.
inner portal
Ohhh I see you decided to just mirror the fluid boxes depending on the direction...
Good catch. I'm half and half on adding that flag though; suppose a bot/decon planner removes a railgun (or a player mines one in space) with its ammo, then the ammo will be put in storage anyways. I suppose I could figure out how to destroy its inventory when destroyed though to make it somewhat cleaner - I'm actually working on how to destroy/lock inventories right now with my next mod lol so... wip 😸
...how many players remove ammo with inserters in space anyways? I hope not many 
young pelican
Well its more to prevent cheesing by just moving the finished ammo to other turrets , skipping their fluid requirements
inner portal
oooohhhhhh yea lol good point
inner portal
Updated 
young pelican
Oh, got an error whenever I try to deconstruct something:
I do not have Maraxsis installed (mentioning it since I saw the compat issue)
To clarify: it isnt just when decontructing the railguns and it happens even before placing any of those
inner portal
on it
young pelican
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand (I'm sorry for all the posts 😭 ) was wondering why you have the diagonal connections the way they are, they feel inconsistent. Something like this may look better:
Was just a matter of changing the output fluid box connections from position = {-1, 1} to position = {0, 1}
inner portal
hotfix is out
young pelican
Hmmm, the error means I might have something else that also calls on_object_destroyed for all object, right?
inner portal
yea, another mod is improperly calling it
i've got a bunch of relatively common space age mods on rn to test compatibility (and also because i'm playing them lol) but it must be one i don't have becasue i only ever isolated Maraxsis as having that issue
inner portal
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand (I'm sorry for all the posts 😭 ) was wondering why you ha...
i think the diagonal connections are always gonna look weird no matter what 😔 but i agree this does look better 👌
young pelican
To be honest the standard assembler pipe cover doesn't look too bad from most angles
keen flax
I think the main criteria for pipe connection placement should be how easy it is to get good coverage with railguns on your space ship.
inner portal
should have no problems with railgun coverage; I explicitly didn't want any passthrough cold-fk connections though, I think that would trivialize the pipe spaghetti i'm dreaming about.
I'll likely experiment with different layouts though, I'm thinking I could just let the user select which one they want in mod settings similar to how i'm letting them choose between new and old diagonal connections right now
inner portal
If you guys have any layouts you'd like to see, lmk, I think it'd be a cool feature to implement. Easy enough with the string-settings dropdown menu too