[1.1.5] Why you banned custom sprite?

[yagaodirac]

I have no idea whether you know this detail.
In order to display a custom sprite in game, there seems a lot of methods which would work.
According to your docs, function rendering.draw_sprite needs a parameter named sprite . It's type is SpritePath. SpritePath accepts 2 forms, first is "type.name"., So I have 2 intuitive ways, one is type==entity, the other is type == sprite. But type = "entity"doesn't compile inside data.lua, while type = "sprite" is not accepted by the rendering.draw_sprite.

Then what should I do? A custom recipe with custom sprite only for a sprite?

In my opinion, the rendering.draw_sprite function shall receive anything with type == sprite.

Update: I deepcopied and modified a prototype from achievement. The lovely achievement of "so long and thanks for all the fish". Then call rendering.draw_sprite with this AcHiEvEmEnT. Fancy and Fantastic. Anyway, it works now.
Would you modify the function so that people could all it with real sprites?

[eradicator]

The SpritePath for custom sprites is "name" not "sprite.name".

[yagaodirac]

The SpritePath for custom sprites is "name" not "sprite.name".

Oh, my,,,, emmm. Yeah, it works. Thanks.

But to the Factorio staff, why not allow "sprite.name" as well?

[Rseding91]

The SpritePath for custom sprites is "name" not "sprite.name".

Oh, my,,,, emmm. Yeah, it works. Thanks.

But to the Factorio staff, why not allow "sprite.name" as well?

Why would we allow a random different string? It's "name". Just use that if you want it to work.