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rendering.draw_sprite{..., time_to_live = 2} This works.
rendering.draw_sprite{..., time_to_live = 1} This doesn't.

Thanks for the report however that's just how it works.

Rseding91 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 5:43 am Thanks for the report however that's just how it works.

To be honest, I didn't expect this to be intentional. I'll say it's a bug in my tutorial. But it does work well except for this.

yagaodirac wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 5:47 am

Rseding91 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 5:43 am Thanks for the report however that's just how it works.

To be honest, I didn't expect this to be intentional. I'll say it's a bug in my tutorial. But it does work well except for this.

The way script rendering logic works is: decrement time-to-live, if 0 then it's dead, then render all non-dead rendering objects.

So if you start with 1 time-to-live you never render it because it dies the same tick it's created.

Duplicate of viewtopic.php?t=75788 , which has more detailed explanations.

Rseding91 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 5:53 am

I really recommend you introduce more intuition in api. This detail is annoying with nothing good in return.