Vehicle Sticker

A Factorio mod to attach a 'sticker' label to a vehicle.

Thanks to GotLag for 'Renamer' and the functions from that were used.

Usage

• Hover the cursor over a vehicle and press the hot-key
• Dialog will prompt for text and color to display
• Text will be attached to the vehicle and move with it

Concerns

• Will this cause UPS issues?
• Paste (shift-right-click) will only trigger for 'similar' units. A locomotive cannot be pasted to a cargo-wagon, for example.

Future

• Can this be attached to a vehicle in the Map View / Train View screen?

AddWagonSticker

Adds the given text to a random train cargo wagon

Parameters

• player_name: The player_name to use for surface search.
• message: The message to be put on the wagon.
• R: Red color hue (000-255)
• G: Green color hue (000-255)
• B: Blue color hue (000-255)

If RGB are omitted or invalid, a random color above 100 is used.

Examples

• Display the message at the character.

/sc remote.call( 'vehicleSticker', 'add_wagon_sticker', 'hyspeed', '_follower_' )

AddLocomotiveSticker

Adds the given text to a random train locomotive

Parameters

• player_name: The player_name to use for surface search.
• message: The message to be put on the locomotive.
• R: Red color hue (000-255)
• G: Green color hue (000-255)
• B: Blue color hue (000-255)

If RGB are omitted or invalid, a random color above 100 is used.

Examples

• Display the message at the character.

/sc remote.call( 'vehicleSticker', 'add_locomotive_sticker', 'hyspeed', '_subscriber_', 100, 150, 200 )

Helpful commands

Setup

• /sc game.player.surface.always_day=true;

Follower

• /c remote.call( 'vehicleSticker', 'add_wagon_sticker', 'hyspeed', 'follower', 100, 150, 200 )
• /c remote.call( "vehicleSticker", "add_wagon_sticker", "hyspeed", "rando" )

Items

• /sc game.player.insert{name="rail", count=100}
  game.player.insert{name="rocket-fuel", count=50}
  game.player.insert{name="locomotive", count=2}
  game.player.insert{name="cargo-wagon", count=4}
  game.player.insert{name="artillery-wagon", count=2}
  game.player.insert{name="spidertron", count=2}
  game.player.insert{name="car", count=2}
  game.player.insert{name="tank", count=2}