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by Byzzee
Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:20 am
Forum: Modding interface requests
Topic: "Generates electricity" label for electric-energy-interface entity
Replies: 0
Views: 135

"Generates electricity" label for electric-energy-interface entity

Hi there, I'm making a mod adding wind turbine entity. It uses "electric-energy-interface" type because wind turbine isn't supposeed to have any input or output slots in it, from the game's point of view it just generates electric energy out of nowhere. It indeed generates electricity but ...
by Byzzee
Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: Got a little confused with "electric-energy-interface"
Replies: 2
Views: 350

Re: Got a little confused with "electric-energy-interface"

First of all, thank you for your reply, There exist mods for both that you can look at to see how they solved them. Yeah, I’ve checked some similar mods. Talking about turbines, I’ve tried about 3-4 different mods and no one solved this problem, which I find pretty strange. What about air purifier, ...
by Byzzee
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:27 am
Forum: Modding help
Topic: Got a little confused with "electric-energy-interface"
Replies: 2
Views: 350

Got a little confused with "electric-energy-interface"

Hello there, I'am making a Factorio mod, that adds some ecology stuff including wind turbines and air filtering entities and got some problems here: As you can see on my screenshots, air purifier has "Consumes electricity" description segment, but wind turbine doesn't. How's that working a...
by Byzzee
Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:14 pm
Forum: Modding help
Topic: "Generates electricity" label
Replies: 4
Views: 349

Re: "Generates electricity" label

It's possible to add custom tooltips. It won't look exactly like normal generators, but at least the information will be there. I do something similar in my mod Biter Power to display the change of escape Oh, actually it's quite close to what I'm trying to accomplish, thanks! However, making descri...
by Byzzee
Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: Modding help
Topic: "Generates electricity" label
Replies: 4
Views: 349

Re: "Generates electricity" label

Actually I did check some other mods having wind turbines and they didn’t solve this problem either.
It just doesn’t seem right that I can’t put this thing into my entity’s description, so maybe it should be done from control script or something…
by Byzzee
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:32 am
Forum: Modding help
Topic: "Generates electricity" label
Replies: 4
Views: 349

"Generates electricity" label

Hello mates, I'm making a mod bringing some ecology stuff in game and I got stuck on wind turbines. In-game entities that produce power have "Generates power" label and production bar in their description (screenshot 1). So I wanna make same thing with my wind turbine, but I didn't find th...

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