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Re: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

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Post by andix »

rocqua wrote: post #28
andix wrote: post #25

I really liked the concept of Factorio, but stopped playing after a few hours. I think one of the main reasons was, that it's really hard to visually grok the factories from the in game visuals. All the shades of brown and gray made it not really enjoyable either (I like pretty and colourful virtual environments, there is enough gray and brown in the real life). If the game would look more like those visualizations,…

Did you press ALT? It displays icons over all fabrication and storage devices showing what they are making/holding.

I don't remember, but probably yes.

Re: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

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Post by mmastrac »

tmvphil wrote: post #29
andix wrote: post #25

I really liked the concept of Factorio, but stopped playing after a few hours. I think one of the main reasons was, that it's really hard to visually grok the factories from the in game visuals. All the shades of brown and gray made it not really enjoyable either (I like pretty and colourful virtual environments, there is enough gray and brown in the real life). If the game would look more like those visualizations,…

I agree that the visual style was not for me. I had a much better time with satisfactory, which is quite pretty. It also spares you the threat of factory destruction.

Satisfactory's scale is so massive for building that it was a shock coming from Factorio. I started a project over the holidays and I'm pretty sure it's going to end up at nearly 200x50. I am not sure it'll fit in a screenshot, hah.

Re: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

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Post by Aeolun »

mmastrac wrote: post #32
tmvphil wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that the visual style was not for me. I had a much better time with satisfactory, which is quite pretty. It also spares you the threat of factory destruction.

Satisfactory's scale is so massive for building that it was a shock coming from Factorio. I started a project over the holidays and I'm pretty sure it's going to end up at nearly 200x50. I am not sure it'll fit in a screenshot, hah.

When you’ve built 5KM of train tracks just to get around xD

Re: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

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Post by mmastrac »

Aeolun wrote: post #34
mmastrac wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Satisfactory's scale is so massive for building that it was a shock coming from Factorio. I started a project over the holidays and I'm pretty sure it's going to end up at nearly 200x50. I am not sure it'll fit in a screenshot, hah.

When you’ve built 5KM of train tracks just to get around xD

Guilty as charged.

Re: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

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Post by andix »

tmvphil wrote: post #29
andix wrote: post #25

I really liked the concept of Factorio, but stopped playing after a few hours. I think one of the main reasons was, that it's really hard to visually grok the factories from the in game visuals. All the shades of brown and gray made it not really enjoyable either (I like pretty and colourful virtual environments, there is enough gray and brown in the real life). If the game would look more like those visualizations,…

I agree that the visual style was not for me. I had a much better time with satisfactory, which is quite pretty. It also spares you the threat of factory destruction.

Satisfactory is on my list, once I replace my ~10 year old GPU.

Re: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

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Post by Engineering-MD »

tmvphil wrote: post #29
andix wrote: post #25

I really liked the concept of Factorio, but stopped playing after a few hours. I think one of the main reasons was, that it's really hard to visually grok the factories from the in game visuals. All the shades of brown and gray made it not really enjoyable either (I like pretty and colourful virtual environments, there is enough gray and brown in the real life). If the game would look more like those visualizations,…

I agree that the visual style was not for me. I had a much better time with satisfactory, which is quite pretty. It also spares you the threat of factory destruction.

I like the threat of factory destruction. It adds to the flavour, and makes designing the factory not just about pure optimisation

Re: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

andix wrote: post #25

I really liked the concept of Factorio, but stopped playing after a few hours. I think one of the main reasons was, that it's really hard to visually grok the factories from the in game visuals. All the shades of brown and gray made it not really enjoyable either (I like pretty and colourful virtual environments, there is enough gray and brown in the real life). If the game would look more like those visualizations,…

Look into Dyson Sphere Program.

It's a lot more bright and colorful, though I think it lacks some depth relative to Factorio, but I think that just makes it more approachable.

Re: Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

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Post by piebro »

bloopernova wrote: post #37

oh wow this is very cool, I can't wait to use it! Does this work with mods?

Not out of the box. The easiest way to add mod support is to fork the project and add the buildings from mods: https://github.com/piebro/factorio-blueprint-visualizer/blob...

The file is normally generated automatically with the get_items.py script and this data dump: https://gist.github.com/Bilka2/6b8a6a9e4a4ec779573ad703d03c1...

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