• Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If I understood the FFF correctly, that is not what they’re doing; they aren’t working with a half dozen straight sections, each fitting a single “square” (in this case a 2x2), and leaving curves up to the player. Instead they’re adding a new curve (the half-S) to be used with the other pieces.

    For reference here’s how it works in Transport Tycoon / OpenTTD:
    A cropped screenshot of OpenTTD, showing pieces of rail. Some isolated, some forming a branching railroad.

    If implementing something similar in Factorio (note: the colours mean nothing, they’re just to distinguish the pieces of rail):
    a Factorio screenshot poorly edited in Kolourpaint, to show the same rail concept as OpenTTD.

    The later can be smoothed out to look a bit more like curves, but the basic units are all straight and diagonal rails.