Factorio that you can touch

Cieric

I'm (hopefully) getting a G1X soon, so I think I'm going to put it to work printing this stuff out. I'm now excited for this as a use case and I kind of hope someone builds something to convert an existing factorio world into a 3d model, though it might be to big to actually print so maybe a way to take a section would be even better.

ill-ion

This project looks simple until you realize how much engineering went into it. The original assets were never meant to be physical, so they had to completely re-engineer isometric tricks and floating geometry for 3D printing. Releasing the files instead of an expensive collector's edition is a classic Factorio move, and I personally love it. Now the community can remix these and build some awesome stuff that the original devs could never imagine. Awesome stuff!

mitxela

Remember that Factorio does not release its 3D models. Everything in the game is a 2D render of a 3D model, which is why the game uses so much VRAM.

NelsonMinar

Wube is such a unique game studio. They do a lot of very solid technical work and look like they have fun doing it. I particularly appreciated their recent post about porting Factorio to ARM64. They had a business reason to do it but it's clear the team was mostly just curious about whether ARM64 was a viable gaming platform now. And then shared the results with us. They seem like fun hacker guys. https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-446

thendrill

I love this <3 Wube should be the example the game industry follows

breckenedge

The factory must grow.

lastscattering

Fun thing about taking Factorio physical is that the game already has a real scale. A tile is a metre, that's what the km/h readouts for vehicles are based on. So a yellow belt moves at basically walking pace, and the engineer runs everywhere at about 30 km/h all day without getting tired. The mining drill that eats a whole ore patch is a 3x3m box.

schobi

Oh - but only touching them? I was hoping for an iteration of a factorio belt that could actually move!

atemerev

Real-world Factorio, aka composable manufacturing, aka "factories building drones building factories", aka universal constructor, is the next trillion dollar company.

Sir_Twist

Based on the title I thought this would be about adapting Factorio for touch controls, but this is way more interesting. The folks at Wube have such a unique sense of technical curiosity.

evv

not me hoping for an official factorio board game

mococa

I love Factorio, but I can't play it - it's way too addictive. If I start on a Friday, I won't stop until Monday

sdenton4

Omg, this is so my jam... I'm looking forward to making a Factorio themed war game table. Star Wars Legion on the factory planet...

Animats

Now try to get a Factorio-Lego collaboration going.

Artoooooor

A "screen" for blind people, where "pixels" would move up and down instead of changing colours would be so cool. Factorio would "display" the game world, something else would "display" text in Braille...