[0.15.12] Find_entities_filtered does not find fire or smoke

[SilverB1rd]

This code will return fire and smoke entities when they are within the search area

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local pos = entity.position
			local size = 5
			local area = {{pos.x -size, pos.y-size},{pos.x +size, pos.y+size}}
			local flames = entity.surface.find_entities(area)
			for _, f in pairs(flames) do
				log(f.type)
			end

This code does not return fire or smoke elements.

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local flames = surface.find_entities_filtered{position = entity.position, area = {{-5,-5}, {5,5}}}
			for _, f in pairs(flames) do
				log(f.type)
			end

Adding the type="fire" does not change the results.

Expected result:
find_entities_filtered should be able to find fire and smoke elements.

[Rseding91]

You've defined position and area and the game uses position over area so it's searching the exact position.

Position based search doesn't find zero-bounding box sized entities so it doesn't show up.

[Nexela]

You've defined position and area and the game uses position over area so it's searching the exact position.

Position based search doesn't find zero-bounding box sized entities so it doesn't show up.

Rseding Can you add that as a note on http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaS ... s_filtered?

[Rseding91]

Yeah I'll do that.