For my future self: CreateTrivialSmokeEffectItem seems like it might be good enough for the V wake, but the question about original API frame of reference might still be interesting to others.

TL;DR
Please add an (opt-in?) way for CreateParticleTriggerEffectItem to rotate its offsets, etc by the source entity's orientation.

What?
I was trying to add a wake to the Cargo Ships mod, which renders ships as train-like entities. I suspect the idiomatic way to render a wake is to use drive ...

What happened

Sending SIGTERM to a running Factorio process sometimes aborts it instead of shutting it down cleanly. macOS reports:


Application Specific Information:
BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBPLATFORM: Trying to recursively lock an os_unfair_lock
Abort Cause 259


Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue ...