lol

[timid locust]

lol, this is heat mechanics from Cosmoteer!

[wheat cloud]

Hah, it is kind of coincidental that came out right about when i started working on this concept

I should try out the new cosmoteer update

[timid locust]

[timid locust]

necessarily

[wheat cloud]

im just too busy adding the near void to TFMG

[crystal hornet]

This looks awesome!

[wheat cloud]

Thanks

[drowsy merlin]

laser turrets should produce a lot of heat when you think about it

[wheat cloud]

If I find an acceptable way to apply the thermal system to them

They will likely get it

They’d also probably one of the things that have the thermal system even on the surface

Laser turrets will also probably be the first turret you get

And then maybe a canon turret, or a combat robot deployer (though maybe I just do that for a spidertron)

[drowsy merlin]

reskinning the collector to be a drone port would be cool 👀

[wheat cloud]

Ahh like little space drones come to scoop up the asteroids

That’s actually a sick idea

Certainly not easy to do, but it’s going in the Wishlist

[wheat cloud]

To elaborate, since this all takes place in a far future factorio, where we’re already far beyond the engineers tech level. (In theory)

I think it would be cool if the weapons that SELF built were massively more powerful, gun turrets replaced with heavy duty auto cannons and other such unnecessarily brutal weaponry.

Spiders which deploy combat robots too, I feel would fit this high tech and threatening vibe

Plus it uses combat robots which I think are a very cool but under-utilised feature in factorio

When it comes to designing the actual buildings, weapons etc, I want to keep working in that super advanced, made by super intelligence style.

The radiators I think are the prime example od the direction I want to go, (though. Hopefully as I get more practice I can make some more detailed models)

But compared to the engineer, SELF builds fairly clean and angular designs

I’ll try and do designs that use more truss structures without plating, since SELF wouldn’t care for asthetics, they’re pure function.

[drowsy merlin]

great new sprite, but the feather effect gets lost ingame

[wheat cloud]

Exposed heat pipes and such, which isn’t too different from the engineer

[wheat cloud]

Yeah when I redo the sprite I’ll probably go fewer ridges

It was initially meant for a 3x6 object but I ended up scaling it down to 1x5 because I liked how that felt in gameplay better

But it’s hard to adjust the number of ridges retroactively without redoing the whole thing from scratch

[drowsy merlin]

careful with that, it usually leads to weird looking sprites when zoomed in

[wheat cloud]

Oh no I did fully rerender it at the correct size

So no issues there

The only reason I didn’t change the ridges was that it would require me to redo most of the model and I just don’t think it’s quite worth spending that much time on

All models in making rn are basically less detailed prototypes of what I’d like to do finally

It’s just, I don’t have all the skills id like to have when it comes to making them

I think it’s more worthwhile I make more, simpler models quickly, to build up my skills and then I can go back over when the mod is closer to completion

Simpler sprites also provide me the benifit of being easier to adjust if I decide to resize the building or something

TLDR; I’m preparing for this mod to take a long ass time to finish

And that’s okay

Working on it has been really fun