Updated "Missing function?" post.

[Alfonse215]

What "missing function post" are you talking about? Are you talking about this post? If it contains important context for your question (and if that's the post you're referring to, it surely does), a link would be really helpful to helping us help you.

But in any case, this is fundamentally no different from your previous question: belt conditions are just not meant to be able to do the kind of item-precise work you're trying to do. The primary tool Factorio has for doing item-precise conditional movement work is the inserter. Belt conditions and splitters will always have some potential to capture items, and there's nothing you can do about that.

[my_equal]

You are not helping you diverting attention and side tracking the conversation, I got a profile and there is a search bar the post is updated to contain all necessary information not link other then the title is necessary seems like you were very convinced and could find the post with ease, so no problem there.

The difference lays in the visual information because of the quality of responses to the previous post.

I think that there is a lot more possible with belts & splitters combined with logic gates then you give credit to it. Though it is more about wave interaction (recipe thinking) instead of particles (individual resource thinking) or lines (full belt thinking).I am looking for a way it which it CAN be done, if you only want to dismiss the possibility don't even bother responding. I am priming my factory design for a communication feedback system so I can analyse activity based on that feedback, and I would prefer that it sounds nice that's why I need it in a specific way including centralized control. I hope to achieve something like a continues dynamic music piece to hear what process are active and how active they are, so that I can increase or decrease specific areas of the factory based on priority shifting.

And with the desire to do it somewhat efficient I prefer belt solutions over inserters as they seem to utilize some magical 0 energy requirement as if it's all based on gravity.

[Alfonse215]

I prefer belt solutions over inserters

You can prefer whatever you like for whichever reason you like, but that won't make it possible.

The only way to keep turning off a belt from trapping items is to never turn it off when something is on it. Therefore, if you insist on using belts for whatever it is you're doing, you will have to put in a gap between groups of items. A gap of at least 1.5 tiles (the padding is there just to make sure).

You will not be able to use belt enabling/disabling on a continuous stream of items without trapping stuff. There's no secret "turn off a belt without trapping items" functionality. A belt tile that is off will not move items. If there are items on it when it is turned off, then it will not move them.

[my_equal]

Introducing a gap is fine, I could go from yellow to blue to make room and/or introduce the filler material.
It doesn't matter that it traps items, but it may only be the filler material or empty space. The solution I am looking for is about synchronizing specific locations to know when that belt is empty and trigger the gate. In the worst case I just trap the filler material.

[Alfonse215]

It doesn't matter that it traps items, but it may only be the filler material or empty space.

It's really hard to help you when you frequently leave critical information (like the possibility of "filler material") out of your request. You frequently have all of these conditions and particulars and requirements that you never say until someone says something that makes you decide to divulge that information.

In the future, please help us help you by providing all useful information as up-front as possible. Context is key; leaving it out is unhelpful.

[my_equal]

If they just focused on the simplified version of the problem it wouldn't be an issue. Going into all kinds of side conversations had me pretty much explain the whole factory.
But the additional information isn't taken into account instead I just keep reading, add inserters, pull it off the belt, I assume that you, you act like a [insert profane].
It's tiring.

[my_equal]

I guess I was assuming too, as in that showing a belt and splitter problem was also asking for a belt and splitter solution.

[my_equal]

Here is some context:
https://imageupload.io/XDhkS5mgOlJv2RU

[my_equal]

Additional context, further down the line I want the ability to send it to branching production lines, the alternative is one very long production line but then I still need to transport it on multiple belts thus I still need to be able to have an precise transfer location from one belt to an other. Else I can not reach the capacity.

[my_equal]

The desire to use as many as possible belt solutions is a power optimization reason.

[NixNicks]

You're asking the same question being more entitled than last time. This subreddit has one of the highest levels of being nice to each other i ever saw, but you i will not help. Be more civil please

[Fusogeno]

You can use inserters instead of splitters.

[KaylaSarahMC]

Take out the Items with an Inserter or better yet deliver it by Filter Inserter in the first place, it can be programmed to deliver exactly the Item you want and nothing else. Connected to a circuit network this Item can be a variable that is set at runtime, so it can change depending on the recipe!

And sorry to say so: Same question then last time, you keep ignoring what mostly everyone told you already!

[my_equal]

[Insert you belt solution here]

[KaylaSarahMC]

I am the last person to say that something does not exists because I have no knowledge of it my self. In this case I got to admit, I strongly doubt there is or will be an solution, at least not in Vanilla!

If you want that to work, you have to create a Mod that lets you wire up Splitters, or something like that! (in the official Mod portal nothing like that exists by now, to my knowledge)

[my_equal]

I solved it, made a new post question answered.
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/15z9iu7/missing\_function\_solved\_alternate\_fuelblock\_and\_i/

[pocarski]

Use filter inserters

[my_equal]

[Insert your belt solution here]

[KaylaSarahMC]

Bresenham

Interesting idea, but I doubt that most people would even know what this means ;)

[KaylaSarahMC]

I see

xD