getEntities => type ?

Hi Claude, I am currently figuring out how the entity system is working. I also replied to the other post about getting information about input/output of industries. However, it's different because that was about editing the construction via loadConstruction where you have information about the construction file. The entities work different and have other variables.

So, I get all entities of a specific type with

 local constructions = game.interface.getEntities( {radius = 999999}, {type = "CONSTRUCTION", includeData=true} )

It includes many entries, all constructions of the current game: town buildings, industries, assets.

Example:

[3357] = {
    baseEdges = {},
    baseNodes = {},
    dateBuilt = {
      day = 1,
      month = 1,
      year = 2000
    },
    depots = {},
    fileName = "industry/farm.con",
    id = 3357,
    name = "Germaringen Bauernhof",
    params = {
      productionLevel = 0,
      seed = -7946
    },
    particleSystems = {},
    position = { -608, -1233.3120117188, 18.139999389648 },
    simBuildings = { 16513 },
    stations = {},
    townBuildings = {},
    transf = { -0.94868332147598, 0.31622776389122, 0, 0, -0.31622776389122, -0.94868332147598, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, -608, -1236, 18.099998474121, 1 },
    type = "CONSTRUCTION"
  },

Now what you could do, is filtering the entities via

entity.fileName == "industry/*"

But that entry does not contain information about the industry itself, I think it contents just information about the model. So I became aware of simBuildings = { 16513 }:

{
  id = 16513,
  itemsConsumed = {
    _lastMonth = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _lastYear = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _sum = 0
  },
  itemsConsumedVehicleUsed = {
    _lastMonth = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _lastYear = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _sum = 0
  },
  itemsProduced = {
    GRAIN = 1123,
    _lastMonth = {
      GRAIN = 17,
      _sum = 17
    },
    _lastYear = {
      GRAIN = 200,
      _sum = 200
    },
    _sum = 1123
  },
  itemsShipped = {
    _lastMonth = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _lastYear = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _sum = 0
  },
  level = 0,
  name = "Germaringen Bauernhof",
  position = { -608, -1233.3120117188, 18.099998474121 },
  stockList = 3357,
  type = "SIM_BUILDING",
  upgradeProgress = 0
}

This might be more interesting for you because it contains information about the production. type = "SIM_BUILDING" seems to be the industries, although I wouldn't have guessed that by the name.

There is still an issue, I had industries on my test map that didn't produce anything and didn't have any entries of Cargotype in their simbuilding table.

I don't know a better solution yet. Maybe there are possibilities with game.interface.getIndustryProduction but my tries with that resulted in a crash.

Zitat von Claude

Do you know what "includeData=true" does exactly?

It just includes the entity data (you get with getEntity) rather than returning only ids.

If you use a for each loop, you don't need a counter variable j and it's the same like:

local IDs = game.interface.getEntities({ radius = 1e100 }, { type = "CONSTRUCTION" })
for _,id in pairs(IDs) do  -- _ for unneeded variable 
 commonapi.dmp (game.interface.getEntity (id))
end

for i,j in pairs(table) iterates over a table with i as index (1,2,3...) and j=table[i]

Another advice: if you print commonapi.dmp () is always nil. dmp prints automatically to console.

Zitat von Claude

What industries on your test map "didn't produce anything and didn't have any entries of Cargotype in their simbuilding table."?
Would you have an stdout or even a savegame?

I tested on a very small map with 3 industries only. That industry was a building materials factory and hasn't been deliverd, so it didn't produce. There are no entries in the list, so it's not possible to determine input/output cargo type.

{
  id = 24021,
  itemsConsumed = {
    _lastMonth = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _lastYear = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _sum = 0
  },
  itemsConsumedVehicleUsed = {
    _lastMonth = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _lastYear = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _sum = 0
  },
  itemsProduced = {
    _lastMonth = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _lastYear = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _sum = 0
  },
  itemsShipped = {
    _lastMonth = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _lastYear = {
      _sum = 0
    },
    _sum = 0
  },
  level = 0,
  name = "Dippoldiswalde Baumaterialfabrik",
  position = { -2175.7099609375, 185.08500671387, 24.400001525879 },
  stockList = 10390,
  type = "SIM_BUILDING",
  upgradeProgress = 0
}

You are seperating commands with ,

commonapi.dmp(), commonapi.dmp(), ...

this doesnt work

the following should work:

for j = 1, #TownsId do
    local id = TownsId[j]
    commonapi.dmp(game.interface.getEntity(id))
    commonapi.dmp(game.interface.getTownCapacities(id))
    commonapi.dmp(game.interface.getTownCargoSupplyAndLimit(id))
end

did you try out getCargoType (id) yet?

As an FYI, here is the list of entity types I got when calling game.interface.getEntity() without any type qualifier:

entitiesSummary.ANIMAL; count; 4408; number

entitiesSummary; ANIMAL; table: 000001BC9F1A6F70; table

entitiesSummary.ASSET_GROUP; count; 61491; number

entitiesSummary; ASSET_GROUP; table: 000001BC9F19EE10; table

entitiesSummary.BASE_EDGE; count; 20286; number

entitiesSummary; BASE_EDGE; table: 000001BB0A946810; table

entitiesSummary.BASE_NODE; count; 18973; number

entitiesSummary; BASE_NODE; table: 000001BB0A945E10; table

entitiesSummary.CONSTRUCTION; count; 17203; number

entitiesSummary; CONSTRUCTION; table: 000001BB0A953C40; table

entitiesSummary.RAILROAD_CROSSING; count; 79; number

entitiesSummary; RAILROAD_CROSSING; table: 000001BBE586C400; table

entitiesSummary.SIGNAL; count; 550; number

entitiesSummary; SIGNAL; table: 000001BB0A951D00; table

entitiesSummary.SIM_BUILDING; count; 164; number

entitiesSummary; SIM_BUILDING; table: 000001BB9AFFFE00; table

entitiesSummary.SIM_CARGO; count; 3465; number

entitiesSummary; SIM_CARGO; table: 000001BB903CD890; table

entitiesSummary.SIM_PERSON; count; 9727; number

entitiesSummary; SIM_PERSON; table: 000001BB0A947BC0; table

entitiesSummary.STATION; count; 790; number

entitiesSummary; STATION; table: 000001BB0A94D610; table

entitiesSummary.STATION_GROUP; count; 505; number

entitiesSummary; STATION_GROUP; table: 000001BB0A94D750; table

entitiesSummary.TOWN; count; 16; number

entitiesSummary; TOWN; table: 000001BBADDD5EF0; table

entitiesSummary.TOWN_BUILDING; count; 16763; number

entitiesSummary; TOWN_BUILDING; table: 000001BB9AFCB360; table

entitiesSummary.VEHICLE; count; 1489; number

entitiesSummary; VEHICLE; table: 000001BB0A951710; table

entitiesSummary.VEHICLE_DEPOT; count; 84; number

entitiesSummary; VEHICLE_DEPOT; table: 000001BB9AE91E60; table

entitiesSummary.WORLD; count; 1; number

entitiesSummary; WORLD; table: 000001BC9F1A6A20; table

Zitat von Claude

I would like to reiterate that you found how to get only the production facilities to be listed, by using type = "SIM_BUILDING" instead of the broader type = "CONSTRUCTION"

Why don't you just take the code you posted earlier and replace CONSTRUCTION by SIM_BUILDING?

local CId = (game.interface.getEntities({ radius = 1e100 }, { type = "SIM_BUILDING" }))
for j = 1, #CId do
 local id = CId[j]
 print(commonapi.dmp (game.interface.getEntity (id)))
end

I just simplified that code a bit. Doesn't it work? I think it should but didn't test it. Is there an error message?

local IDs = game.interface.getEntities({ radius = 1e100 }, { type = "SIM_BUILDING" })
for _,id in pairs(IDs) do
    commonapi.dmp (game.interface.getEntity(id))
end

Zitat von Claude

doug interesting list indeed, thanks for sharing it. You didn't have any line set on the map?

Oh, yes, that is from a mature game. The 'count' numbers you see are the instances of each type.

1489 Vehicles? Is it still running smooth?

BTW: 16763 Town buildings and 9727 Sim_person?!

I've never had issues with frame rates in this game. If I get close to one of Enzo's underground stations, or I leave a whole bunch of windows open on the screen, they'll drop down to 25 or so, but otherwise they're usually in the 50 - 60 range.

Each person needs three buildings - home, shopping, work, so it does make sense that there are more town buildings than people.

Thats in average 1,74 persons/building. Are you using any mods? Or are the buildings in average smaller than in TPF1? I remember many skyscrapers in most cities with capacites up to 500 per building on my TPF1 map.

Using a ton of mods, mostly vehicles. I don't think there are any that will directly affect the number of buildings - I'll have to check.

As to the skyscrapers, I'm wondering if it would be possible to build a mod that will simply replace the stock period C buildings with copies of the period B ones. Just musing out loud here - don't know what affect that would have on town development...

thats how i get all industry-buildings:

    local conIds = game.interface.getEntities({pos = {0, 0, 0}, radius = 1e100}, { type = "CONSTRUCTION" })
    for key,conId in pairs(conIds) do
        local con = game.interface.getEntity(conId)
        if con.fileName:match("industry/") then
            -- its an industry construction
        end
    end

so i just use the file-path and assume every industry construction file is and will every be in the industry directory

doug

to replace the C buildings with B just make a mod that overwrites all C buildings with the B ones (*.con files).

For town development it will not have any effect on how many people the town will have. As the town just creates more and more buildings until it reaches the current limit.

MFG PMV

But if the town creates more and more buildings, the towns wil be way larger. If the town uses a bigger area with the same amount of people, it will change some things:

-less pedestrians

-more car traffic

-less frequentet and larger lines

-unable to cover the same amount of people with a train station

-lower emmisions

-...

This will probably lead to less inhabitans and higher investion costs.

(OT: MFG in nem englischen Beitrag macht irgenwie keinen Sinn ;))

Bauer33333

Same amount of people lead to same amount of car traffic ... the size of town you are speaking about will be that big, that most people already drive by car. Or use your lines. Cost of inner city lines is that low, compared to everything else ... it doesn't matter.

Wth a bigger foodpint it is more easy to get flowing traffic.

And in TPF2 you will never try to cover any train station with in city range (except cargo if its far away from residantial). Or you ignore emission.

And btw. this is complete offtopic, not just your "OT"

MFG PMV