Conveyor Flow Optimizer
Hello everyone! I'm an aspiring modder and total beginner when it comes to Satisfactory/Unreal Engine modding.
I have an idea for a mod I want to develop, called Conveyor Flow Optimizer.
This mod aims to integrate a simple but powerful Conveyor Belt Flow Calculator directly into the game's UI. The main goal is to help players achieve 100% factory efficiency and eliminate excess production/waste without guesswork, especially when dealing with non-integer (irrational) ratios.
It would take three main inputs:
1. Conveyor Belt Limit (e.g., 780 items/min for Mk.5)
2. Item Output Rate (Items produced per building/min)
3. Item Input Rate (Items consumed per building/min)
I've already developed the core calculation logic in Python, which focuses on guaranteeing integer building counts based on the belt's capacity, and then calculates the subsequent consumption:
The key calculation steps are:
1. Determine Output Buildings: $\text{Output Buildings} = \lfloor \frac{\text{Belt Limit}}{\text{Output Rate}} \rfloor$
2. Calculate Real Flow: $\text{Real Flow} = \text{Output Buildings} \times \text{Output Rate}$
3. Determine Input Buildings: $\text{Input Buildings} = \lfloor \frac{\text{Real Flow}}{\text{Input Rate}} \rfloor$
4. Calculate Excess: $\text{Excess Flow} = \text{Real Flow} - (\text{Input Buildings} \times \text{Input Rate})$
This logic successfully finds the highest possible perfect split while respecting the belt capacity and ensuring all buildings are whole numbers.
Since I'm new, I need to know what the standard approach is to implement this:
* How do I integrate this arithmetic logic into the game? Do I need to translate all my functions (like the ones for finding the greatest common divisor and the calculation above) into Unreal Engine Blueprints or should I learn basic C++?
I have an idea for a mod I want to develop, called Conveyor Flow Optimizer.
Mod Concept
This mod aims to integrate a simple but powerful Conveyor Belt Flow Calculator directly into the game's UI. The main goal is to help players achieve 100% factory efficiency and eliminate excess production/waste without guesswork, especially when dealing with non-integer (irrational) ratios.
It would take three main inputs:
1. Conveyor Belt Limit (e.g., 780 items/min for Mk.5)
2. Item Output Rate (Items produced per building/min)
3. Item Input Rate (Items consumed per building/min)
Underlying Logic (Python Prototype)
I've already developed the core calculation logic in Python, which focuses on guaranteeing integer building counts based on the belt's capacity, and then calculates the subsequent consumption:
The key calculation steps are:
1. Determine Output Buildings: $\text{Output Buildings} = \lfloor \frac{\text{Belt Limit}}{\text{Output Rate}} \rfloor$
2. Calculate Real Flow: $\text{Real Flow} = \text{Output Buildings} \times \text{Output Rate}$
3. Determine Input Buildings: $\text{Input Buildings} = \lfloor \frac{\text{Real Flow}}{\text{Input Rate}} \rfloor$
4. Calculate Excess: $\text{Excess Flow} = \text{Real Flow} - (\text{Input Buildings} \times \text{Input Rate})$
This logic successfully finds the highest possible perfect split while respecting the belt capacity and ensuring all buildings are whole numbers.
My Question
Since I'm new, I need to know what the standard approach is to implement this:
* How do I integrate this arithmetic logic into the game? Do I need to translate all my functions (like the ones for finding the greatest common divisor and the calculation above) into Unreal Engine Blueprints or should I learn basic C++?
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