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Character reach indicator

TBy Theis

Tool for aiding with finding your characters reach potential

Character reach indicator

Description

Tool for showing your characters reachable range.

Adds a tool to your toolbar, when toggled on this will show 3 circles around your character.

#### Each circle indicate a different reachable range:

  • _Reach distance:_ outer white circle, this is for most interactions with your factory. It defaults to a radius of 10 tiles.
  • _Resource reach distance:_ inner white circle, this is for interactions with environment, such as Rocks, Trees & Ore. It defaults to 2.7 tiles.
  • _Item pickup distance:_ small green filled circle, this is for picking up (default key _F_) items on the ground. It defaults to 1 tile.
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#### Interaction with entities In Factorio every entity has a selection rectangle and a collision rectangle. The Collision rectangle is the one being used for determining if you can interact with the entity. Collision rectangle image As seen above, while the selection rectangle of the tree is partially inside the character's _resource reach distance_ the whole of the collision rectangle is outside, which means you can't reach the tree.

Collision rectangles can be shown using:

F4 -> show-collision-rectangle

Limitations: loot_pickup_distance, drop_item_distance & build_distance are not covered by this mod as in unmodded Factorio they have the same value as reach_distance.

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