Alternative Alt Mode


Replaces the standard Alt-Mode by providing more information for more objects. This information is shown only for entities around the player cursor, so the graphics of other objects can be enjoyed without always having an information overlay on top of them.

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Changelog

Version: 0.3.3
Date: 2025-03-13

  Features:
    - Better scaling of quality icons on entities.
    - Quality icons aren't redrawn if both alt modes are on.
Version: 0.3.2
Date: 2025-03-12

  Features:
    - Added a mode to draw alternative alt mode on top of regular alt mode.

  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash when a constant combinator has an "Any Quality" signal and a signal of the same type with a regular quality in a different section.
Version: 0.3.1
Date: 2025-03-06
  Features:
    - Allow individual entities to be ignored

  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash at startup
Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2025-03-06
  Features:
    - Draw filters on asteroid collectors

  Changes:
    - Attempted to get all alt-alt-mode icon scales and positions as close as possible to the vanilla alt mode counterpart
    - Entities that are not selectable will not show any icons
    - Cars and tanks now show their fuel instead of cargo

  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed fluid amounts <1 showing the wrong amount of fluid
Version: 0.2.4
Date: 2025-01-12
  Features:
    - Draw modules on labs
    - Draw recipe blocked symbol on recipes that are not unlocked yet

  Changes:
    - Added "car" to the default blacklisted entity types
    - Draw quality icons on filtered and enemy entities
    - Better visualisation on pipes (Thanks to O5MO)

  Bugfixes:
    - Item requests are now shown when selecting entities individually
    - Stopped the flashing of icons on Fulgora
    - Stopped spidertron from dancing by removing collision_box on invisible entities
Version: 0.2.3
Date: 2024-12-31
  Features:
    - Added a setting to filter out any entity type.

  Changes:
    - Removed individual entity settings (robots, poles, accumulators, heat pipes)

  Bugfixes:
    - Fix crash when item-request-proxies had no target
Version: 0.2.2
Date: 2024-12-31
  Features:
    - Added settings to toggle robots, poles, accumulators and heat pipes

  Bugfixes:
    - Added more robust checks to see if sprites can be drawn
Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2024-12-31

  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed inconsistencies between QualityID and LuaQualityPrototype types
    - Fixed crash when adding mod to existing safe
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2024-12-30
  Major Features:
    - Draw alt information on fish

  Features:
    - Display radius now always follows the cursor, no need to hover over an entity (performance heavy, adjustable in settings)
    - Added the option to always show the "display-radius"
    - Added toggles to show quality background colour and/or quality icon
    - Draw modules and filters on mining drills
    - Add item requests (modules, train fuel, etc.)

  Changes:
    - Adjusted sprite offsets on combinators
    - Made the "display-radius" circle transparent and filled
    - Only entities belonging to the same force of the player, or neutral entities, are shown
    - Slightly reduced sprite background sizes
    - Sprites are now drawn behind alert icons
    - Thumbnail updated
    - Pumps show their filter instead of their contents

  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed crash when checking constant combinators
    - Fixed inserters/loaders, that are no longer connected to a circuit network, not showing correct filters
Version: 0.1.3
Date: 2024-12-25
  Features:
    - Show circuit network content on radars

  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed splitters not drawing the icons on the correct positions
    - Fixed splitters not showing normal quality filter
    - Fixed a crash when selecting certain ghost entities (power pole, accumulator, heat pipe, fluid wagons)
Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2024-12-23
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a crash when an entity when an entity has zero width or height
Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2024-12-22
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a crash when using quality accumulators
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2024-12-22
  Info:
    - Initial release

  Major Features:
    - Completely replaced the "alt-mode" setting
    - Alt information is now only shown in a radius around the player's cursor (adjustable)

  Features:
    - Show accumulator charge
    - Show electric network power usage on electric poles
    - Show operators on decider and arithmetic combinators
    - Show amount of items/fluids in containers and fluidboxes
    - Change background colour of items/recipes/signals based on their quality
    - Show temperature of heat-pipes
    - Show contents of roboports, reactors, generators, vehicles, agricultural towers, thrusters and more
    - Show circuit network signals on radars

  Locale:
    - Added English locale