Use case

[ILLISIS]

Hello,

This interests me and I believe I have a very good use case, where there is a good use case there is usually inspiration.

I also struggle at times with the games pathfinder with;

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Constructron-Continued
https://github.com/ILLISIS/Constructron-Continued

Constructron utilizes both the games pathfinder and a customer A* pathfinder for landfill jobs.

I would be interested in seeing what we could achieve together.

[Diordany]

Hi @ILLISIS,

Thank you for reaching out! I'm interested in finding out what use case you're thinking of, and I like the idea of collaboration. I'll also check out the Constructron mod later.

Regarding Ember Autopilot, I was also leaning towards a custom implementation of the A* algorithm. My next goal is to look into what state space and heuristics might fit my application(s) best. Another long term goal I have for Ember is auto-mining and auto-construction, which seems to fall into the same domain as the Constructron mod.

[ILLISIS]

I would say you're more in the territory of kruise kontrol rather than Constructrons.

The Constructron code isn't in the best shape, it needs a lot of extraction, but the lua A* the pathfinder goes from A > B with what I needed (custom collision checks).

[Diordany]

I would say you're more in the territory of kruise kontrol rather than Constructrons.

Yeah, I can agree with that.

The Constructron code isn't in the best shape, it needs a lot of extraction, but the lua A* the pathfinder goes from A > B with what I needed (custom collision checks).

So am I correct to assume that you want to collaborate on refining Constructron's pathfinding algorithm? Or is it something else you had in mind?

By the way, I'll join the Constructron Discord server later. I think it's easier to communicate there.