Nostalgic mod idea, does this exist?

[SpecialUnseen]

I really would love to have the player to resemble an Army man figurine like in the old Army Men games, and making lots of things like vehicles, units, drones with tons of plastic. Perhaps even the enemies could be plastic too, and their corpses could be melted down? I have an obsession for Army Men games, okay lol...

[Fel]

I doubt there is a mod like that.

One of the reasons being that with the amount of work required to make all of the sprites needed, most artists get together with a modder and make brand new enemies (or machines and such) instead of "skins" for existing enemies since way less people would download those.

[✞ Star∞]

please ignore the ignorant person up above who probably didnt even bother checking for you

there is a mod called total automization which adds essentially that in factorio textures, mixed with unit control it becomes like an RTS.
sadly i don't think it's in green army men texture haha, probably possible to make a quick version of total automization where all the units are green and plastic looking !!

[Fel]

Alright, there are mods that allow you to control units, the one you said:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Total_Automization
As well as AAI's vehicles (much older and one of the first to try anything like that):
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/aai-programmable-vehicles

That is only a portion of what OP was asking though and it doesn't even remotely touch the whole "army men" that was the core of what he was asking though.

But hey, since I'm ignorant maybe the whole "army men" was just a side thing and what OP really wanted was the RTS style stuff.

[shadain597]

Yeah, a couple of different mods have tackled the idea of RTS one way or another, but I haven't seen any that delve into the "plastic army men" concept. Enemies dropping resources has also been done in mods, but usually as something like raw ores, not plastic.

[Taehl]

When you say you want "an Army man figurine" do you mean one those specific little dudes, or do you mean the regular Factorio character/armors made of that green plastic?

If it's the latter, I don't think it would be too hard to run some color filters on the default character graphics, and it shouldn't take much code to swap in the new ones. Something a decent modder could get done in a day, I'd think...

Unfortunately, while melting on death would be really neat, it's more work to create new death animations.

You might also be interested in this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/humanoids2