Radar Alignment Guide

by sakuro

Highlights chunks for placing radars without overlapping coverage.

Utilities
2 days ago
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Owner:
sakuro
Source:
https://github.com/sakuro/radar-align...
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License:
MIT
Created:
a month ago
Latest Version:
0.7.0 (2 days ago)
Factorio version:
2.1
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Radar Alignment Guide

Helps you place radars without overlapping coverage by highlighting placement chunks while you hold a radar, based on the coverage of a designated anchor radar.

Features

  • The first radar built on a surface becomes that force's anchor. To make another radar the anchor, or to clear it, point at it and press the toggle-anchor key (default Ctrl+Shift+A, rebindable in Settings > Controls). When the mod is added to a save that already has radars, one radar per force and surface is adopted the same way.
  • While you hold a radar item or ghost, chunks aligned with the anchor's coverage are tinted. Each player can set the highlight color.
  • Placing a radar, or a radar ghost from a blueprint, that covers more area than the current anchor shows a flying-text hint to re-anchor to it, because its extra range is otherwise wasted on the anchor's tighter spacing. A shorter-range radar is not flagged, since the gap it leaves is already visible on the grid.
  • An optional map tag (off by default) marks the anchor radar's location on the map and in remote view.