text2bp

Use this command line tool to turn any text string into a Factorio blueprint! Supports newlines and tabs.

Each character is 16 pixels tall, and either 8 pixels or 16 pixels wide.

Building from source

It should just be able to type cargo run. If you're missing dependencies, you can either use the flake.nix file, or install them with your system package manager

Usage

$ text2bp --help

Convert any text into a blueprint string using GNU Unifont, a free pixel font

Usage: txt2bp [OPTIONS] <TEXT>

Arguments:
  <TEXT>

Options:
  -t, --tile-name <TILE_NAME>    Name of the tile you want to write with [default: stone-path] [possible values: acid-refined-concrete, black-refined-concrete, blue-refined-concrete, brown-refined-concrete, concrete, cyan-refined-concrete, deepwater, deepwater-green, dirt1, dirt2, dirt3, dirt4, dirt5, dirt6, dirt7, dry-dirt, grass1, grass2, grass3, grass4, green-refined-concrete, hazard-concrete-left, hazard-concrete-right, lab-dark1, lab-dark2, lab-white, landfill, nuclear-ground, orange-refined-concrete, out-of-map, pink-refined-concrete, purple-refined-concrete, red-desert0, red-desert1, red-desert2, red-desert3, red-refined-concrete, refined-concrete, refined-hazard-concrete-left, refined-hazard-concrete-right, sand1, sand2, sand3, stone-path, tile-unknown, tutorial-grid, water, water-green, water-mud, water-shallow, water-wube, yellow-refined-concrete]
  -l, --line-break <LINE_BREAK>  How many pixels of space between each line break [default: 1]
      --tab-width <TAB_WIDTH>    Width of each tab by number of spaces [default: 1]
  -h, --help                     Print help
  -V, --version                  Print version

You can then copy the blueprint and paste it into Factorio.

Future plans

I'd really like to format the list of possible tile names more nicely, but I don't know if clap will let me do that.

License

This program uses a compiled version of GNU Unifont for text rendering. GNU Unifont is licensed under the SIL Open Font License version 1.1. See https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Blueprint String Creator Copyright © 2024 Christian Westrom

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.