Refactored version of Construction Signaler by codekitchen.
As I kept adding features to codekitchen's version it became a complete rewrite which I'll post as it's own mod here.
##Usage:
- Unlocks with circuit network research.
- Place it in the logistics (orange) area of a roboport so it knows where to look for ghosts.
##Features:
- reads entity ghosts
- reads tile ghosts
- reads item requests (modules) from ghosts
- reads item requests (modules) from built entities
- reads items required for upgrades
- reads cliff explosives required (can not account for optimization by construction bot logic)
- reads number of logistics cells (can be turned off in map settings)
- optimized performance as much as possible (having to use find_entities will always be a major drain)
- holding a scanner shows logistic network coverage
- Ghost scanners can be turned on and off individually
Turned off scanners have almost no performance impact (still need to check if it's on or off)
##Runtime Settings:
- Update frequency
reducing scan frequency improves performance
- Scan Result limit:
counters performance drops during large build projects by limiting how many ghosts are found
The same mechanism is used in base game for the notification icon.
Set to 0 to disable.
- Invert output
saves an inverting combinator when used for LTN requests
- Round to stacks
Rounds item counts up (down with Invert output) to next full item stack.
For easiest LTN integration set request stack threshold = 1 and enable both Invert output and Round to stacks.
##Known Issues:
- Reading large construction projects with 1000+ ghosts will have major performance impact.
To counter this scan results are limited to 1000 entities per logistic cells. Setting can be changed at runtime.
- Scanner does not return all ghosts
Either Scan Result limit was reached (see above) or ghosts are outside the construction area of the logistic network the scanner was placed in.
