Factorio Blueprint planner

[Candorra]

Somebody with the correct skills should made a phone/Tablet app to make blueprints to upload the script into your game. Would be awesome to plan out a new layout on a lunch break then get home and place it.😀

[MaddogDino]

Pencil and paper does that for me, or even visualisation using me brain power. makes me chuckle how everything these days has to be an app on a phone. ;o)

[Horoai]

How would you want to transfer blueprints between phone / PC?

I haven't checked... Does Wubesoft offer an API to access their account management?

[Name Lips]

Originally posted by Yggdrasil:

How would you want to transfer blueprints between phone / PC?

First you draw it on paper, then you take a picture of the drawing with your phone and email it to yourself. Then you open it on your PC and use a vector-tracing program to convert the drawing into a file that translates the lines into a factorio blueprint string. Then you take that and paste it into the import blueprint field. Easy!

[Candorra]

Originally posted by Yggdrasil:

How would you want to transfer blueprints between phone / PC?

I haven't checked... Does Wubesoft offer an API to access their account management?

I would probably say you would need it to use the same script as the game for peer to peer blueprint. Shareing by sending via email to copy paste into the ingame blueprint.(or dropping them a copy of your blueprints in game)

However the app would more then likely need the art assets from the game itself so it rules out a free app.

Unless the devs think this would be marketable for the game. Then the account login would save your experimental blueprints to your in-game book. But its all just an idea, no expectations. Just a friendly discussion.


Paper and Pencil is so 1800's

[dragonsphotoworks]

simple method.... Already can import blueprint strings... Make blue print on phone then simply copy that string its not hard. Dont need highend creation software and business software to do it lol

The assests are unity assests i thought? If so probably free. Plus the assest need be converted to lower poly for phone.

While this is a neat idea. Probably a sign that you play game a biiiitttt too much :-) "I will not admit to times i went to bed and dreamed about game... nope i wont admit :-)". But basicially a app to do it wouldnt be out of range. If it only only was a planner. It wouldnt need the script to run belts and proccesses. Basicially a image placer.