Planet Arrakis

by Gladon

(Alpha version, development currently paused) Adding one of the legendary planets in fiction: Arrakis aka. Dune!

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30 days ago
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Factorio: Space Age Icon Space Age Mod
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b UPS Drop when dropping items from orbit

3 months ago

Hello,

First of all, no shame or negative, you've done great job and I see huge potential in this mod! But...

In my case there is a huge UPS drop when I try to drop something from orbit onto Arrakis surface. When you drop first item UPS becomes 25 just at the moment when capsule launched from the ship. Then when you try to drop second and third UPS becomes 15 and 9 respected.

I tried different things:
- Land character > Drop Items
- Drop Items > Land Character
- Save > Reload > Drop Character > Drop Items
- Dropped different types of items
In all cases none of pods reached the surface and game didn't "unlag" by its own

Also I tried to drop cargo on other planets just to test if this is a global problem, but no, this only appears on Arrakis. Please let me know what might help you to locate a root cause, I'm ready to help

3 months ago

Oh. Good to now, I won't be working too much on the mod over the holidays, but I will try and find why this is happening and hopefully fix it. It might be because I haven't properly assign the space-surface-transitions, that's also why there is no proper animation for it. But I can't be sure right now, I will investigate.

3 months ago

I found that is because the pods cannot land on Arrakis' desert sand. The game engine will endlessly check if there are spaces to land which consumes lots of UPS.
The problem gone after I placed some foundation tiles on desert using console command, the pending pods can land. However, without console, it is not possible to drop the first foundation down.

3 months ago

Pods containing person can ignore the desert restriction and successfully land.

3 months ago

Probably it's better to use Fulgorian terrain generation model then, as it always generates at least a tiny patch of buildable land at {0, 0}

3 months ago

Oh thanks, I will fix it in the new year probably

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