Pollution: Visible Smog / Spore Cloud


Pollution appears as a visible cloud of smog or spores over your base. The more you pollute, the less you can see. Configurable and efficient.

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g [Resolved] Matching Map Pollution Color

20 days ago

Awesome mod idea and since it already adds a proper view for pollution, would it be possible to make the map view of it white/gray as well? Or configurable? A number of mods used to do this but either are no longer updated (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/MapPollutionVisibility) or change other mechanics besides offering this feature (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/pollution-scaling)

20 days ago

Honestly, I was thinking the same thing earlier today, and now that you've said it too, I'll definitely implement this as a setting!

20 days ago

Cheers! It's something I've been missing ever since 2.0, not to mention I'm pretty sure I saw someone commenting/requesting this on another mod pointing out that this is also an accessibility feature for color blind people.

20 days ago

I am color blind as well, so I had my own unpublished mod that adjusted this already, and a bit more too. This is clearly better, since it feels a lot more integrated when you can zoom in/out and roughly see the consistency between the views. Hope it's what you wanted!

20 days ago
(updated 20 days ago)

Yes it's perfect <3 I went ahead and found the aforementioned user and pointed him this way! Thank you again for adding this!

You may want to consider making the color customizable so people can set it how they feel suits them best (same with opacity)

Edit: I noticed it gets tinted from things like turret coverage making it pink-ish, is this intended? I believe other such mods made it so that this (the fog color) had priority over the other overlays.

16 days ago

I'll consider the color picker; as for how it interacts with the rest of the "layers" in Factorio, there is a setting if you want it higher/lower than some other things, but otherwise I'm not exactly sure what you're meaning.

16 days ago

Yeah, exactly that, the layering order. And now that you mention it, it would be nice if this was exposed/customizable within the mod, for example me personally would like it to be above things like the turret range.

If you can add this then it would be very much appreciated, if not no biggie, the color change is still a huge improvement over the default anyways.

16 days ago

Right - the layer order is already a setting. I could expose more options for it, but I started from the top, so it would mean adding more options for lowering the cloud.

16 days ago
(updated 16 days ago)

So it is already at the top? strange then, maybe i just forgot how it looked before (via other mods) because i could swear it didn't end up looking pink back then. Welp.

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