#FACTORIO TRAIN FULL#

The main motivation for them is the usage of trains for personal transportation. The second most desired feature is temporary stations. The result is quite nice for simple cases:ДЄnd in more complicated cases, it can be a great tool to quickly identify a problem: Circuit condition - Here we just show nothing or full, as we can't really know.Fluid condition - Basically the same as Item count.I know how far I'm from the goal, but I don't know what to compare it to, so in this case, we just show either not completed at all, or fully completed. If the comparator is anything else, I can't show a progress. If the comparator is > (greater than) or в‰Ґ(greater or equal than), we just calculate the amount of that item and divide it by the goal. Item count - Here it starts to be tricky.Inventory empty - Simply (1 - fraction of full) :).

#FACTORIO TRAIN FULL#

Inventory full - We can calculate the fullness of individual cargo wagons and average it.Inactivity time - Also simple, similar to elapsed time.Elapsed time - The most obvious one, as it is known how much time the train has spent in the station, and how much more is remaining.The question is, how do we calculate the fraction of completeness for individual type of wait conditions? After some discussions, we decided to give visual feedback to all reasonable conditions by gradually changing the style of the condition frame to green as if it was a progress bar. One of the things I always missed in the Train GUI was an indication of how much longer the train going to wait in the station. Webm/Mp4 playback not supported on your device.

We also believe, that the visual feedback of re-arranging is now better than before. The drag and drop was possible in the list-box version as well, but it was quite a hidden feature, as it was the only list-box in the whole game that allowed that, and there was no visual indication of that functionality. Changing station/condition order is done by drag and drop. Since there is no selection now, you just always add to the end. Previously, stations and conditions were added after the currently selected station/condition. The train schedule is one big list with stations and conditions all visible, so you don't have to click through the list-box of individual stations to see the conditions. But the main general idea of the layout remained. Many things changed since then, the final GUI style and rules are different now, and we also re-iterated the UX of it. We introduced the plan and mock-ups for the Train GUI quite some time ago in FFF-212.

As this Friday Facts was scheduled to be about the Train GUI, we had to put special effort into finishing everything planned for the Train GUI, so it can be presented, and we can move to another task and 0.17 comes in reasonable time :). This weeks Friday Facts are a good example of how they serve not only the obvious role of informing the community, but also helps us to divide the work into smaller chunks with individual deadlines.

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