Problems with LuaEntity.orientation
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:51 pm
LuaEntities have two properties that affect their direction: direction and orientation. The first is rather rough, the other more fine-grained. Only direction can be used with LuaSurface.create_entity.
Yesterday, I noticed something peculiar:
Before the character was replaced, I've logged these values:
direction: 3
orientation: 0.375
So the character was facing towards Southeast. After the new character had been created, I've got these values:
player.character.direction: 2
player.character.orientation: 0.25
So the character was facing eastwards. Now, I thought I'd adjust orientation to let the new character face SE again:
Surprise, surprise! The new character was still facing eastwards. However, this change did the trick:
The new character was finally looking into the same direction as the old one. However, the log still shows these values after applying the change to player.character.direction still :
player.character.direction: 2
player.character.orientation: 0.25
What's going on here?
Yesterday, I noticed something peculiar:
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name = player.character.name
position = player.character.position
surface = player.surface
force = player.force
direction = player.character.direction
orientation = player.character.orientation
log("direction: " .. direction .. "\torientation: " .. orientation)
player.character = surface.create_entity{name = name, position = position, direction = direction, force = force, fast_replace = true, raise_built = true}
log("direction: " .. player.character.direction .. "\torientation: " .. player.character.orientation)
direction: 3
orientation: 0.375
So the character was facing towards Southeast. After the new character had been created, I've got these values:
player.character.direction: 2
player.character.orientation: 0.25
So the character was facing eastwards. Now, I thought I'd adjust orientation to let the new character face SE again:
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if player.character then
player.character.orientation = orientation
log("After changing orientation. direction: " .. player.character.direction .. "\torientation: " .. player.character.orientation)
end
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if player.character then
player.character.direction = direction
log("After changing direction direction: " .. player.character.direction .. "\torientation: " .. player.character.orientation)
end
player.character.direction: 2
player.character.orientation: 0.25
What's going on here?