Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

Post by pbronez » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 7:30 PM UTC

piebro wrote: post #19

jvanderbot wrote: post #12

This is amazing. I did a similar thing for the game Highfleet, until I ran into roadblocks with the dev team. My ultimate goal was to have a "print poster" button that would generate the image and ship it off to one of those poster drop-shippers for a small fee. In that game, you can annotate the maps, and the world map with battle annotations is really special with lots of memories of victories and defeats. Alas, no…

I actually printed a few designs and hung them up in frames in my home. Maybe I'll add the idea and some links to the readme. Can you recommend a printing service? I think it's not possible to access the actual file upload using the galaxy hall of fame ( https://www.factorio.com/galaxy ) or I just can't find them. Otherwise it would be pretty cool. Oh yeah, I like the mod idea. That should also be quite doable, thank…

Post by matt3210 » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 7:51 PM UTC

Post by arcanemachiner » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 8:24 PM UTC

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.

Post by duskwuff » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 9:20 PM UTC

BlueTemplar wrote: post #47

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,…

When was that ? Factorio has increased its colourfuness several times to make it more appealing : https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-320 (There's also now a saturation slider in the graphics settings.) And maybe again with 2.0, including some more colorful new planets in the Space Age expansion. P.S.: The Industrial Revolution overhaul mod might also be to your liking ? https://mods.factorio.com/mod/IndustrialRevolut…

Post by jvanderbot » Thu, Jan 09, 2025, 9:47 PM UTC

alexpotato wrote: post #78

jvanderbot wrote: post #12

This is amazing. I did a similar thing for the game Highfleet, until I ran into roadblocks with the dev team. My ultimate goal was to have a "print poster" button that would generate the image and ship it off to one of those poster drop-shippers for a small fee. In that game, you can annotate the maps, and the world map with battle annotations is really special with lots of memories of victories and defeats. Alas, no…

Had never heard of Highfleet but it looks pretty awesome! Plus, I grew up playing MicroProse games in the early to mid 1990s so wild to see that they are still around and making great content. I also loved this quote from the reviews: "A typical Microprose game in that you need to a) immerse yourself in it and b) READ THE GOSH DANG MANUAL in order to have any hope of enjoying it." [0] 0 - https://steamcommunity.com/p…