Extra Zoom


Zoom in/out further than default seamlessly.

Utilities
10 months ago
1.1
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b [Fixed] Extreme stuttering on zoom/in out for multiplayer participants

1 year, 9 days ago

I just created a new game and whenever a participant connects to the map and zooms in/out, it's nauseating and causes excessive stutter. Btw, it does not do this when using the Map View zooming in and out in the game. Also, the host never sees this issue, just the connected players, no matter how good/bad their latency is to the server. I had another player host on LAN, and when I connected to them, I experienced the graphical issues. Not sure if this is a known issue or indirect result of other mods I have loaded.

My current map is K2+SE using the Beta branch of Factorio , v1.1.x.
Visually, it's almost as if it's double-zooming, like two mechanisms are trying perform the zoom in/out operation and it results in contention.

1 year, 9 days ago

Unfortunately I can't do anything about this because of game engine limitations, there's no way to get rid of the stutter, because zooming in this mod is controlled via a script in Lua, and Lua states need to be synced between players, which needs to be transmitted over the internet.

1 year, 9 days ago

Nevermind, I think I've found out a way to reduce stutter to only when zooming out of vanilla limits. Can you give the new version a try to see if it works? (Can't play multiplayer right now) Trying to explain how it works really helped me figuring out how to solve it I guess.

1 year, 9 days ago

Oops, 1.0.1 didn't fix it. Deleted it and replaced with 1.0.2 which hopefully would work

1 year, 8 days ago

Just tested your most recent changes. I can confirm it's virtually stutter free on multiplayer now! SO much better. Thanks for this patch!! My brain thanks you -- no more nausea! :)

11 months ago

You know what, factorio's zooming system makes me really go crazy. Apparently the min/max zoom value is dependent on monitor resolution, and 1.0.2 broke this mod on 4k monitors.

11 months ago

I'm currently running 1.1.101 and don't have many issues, but occasionally the zoom is still wonky.
I hope this doesn't frustrate you too much; it doesn't seem like there is a perfect solution. 😐

11 months ago

Remember to mess with the new value added to the player settings tab, it should make the mod work smoothly. With one particular screen resolution only. AAAAAAAAAAAA

10 months ago
(updated 10 months ago)

Remember to mess with the new value added to the player settings tab, it should make the mod work smoothly. With one particular screen resolution only. AAAAAAAAAAAA

Thanks for the latest update. I hope you are satisfied with the result after much frustration :D
Time to launch factorio, stretched across my two 4k displays.

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