No such node (north)

[JohnnyDeee]

[SOLVED: viewtopic.php?f=25&t=34433#p215872]

I'm trying to create an entity with

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type = "inserter"

but somehow i get this error on startup and i can't find any documentation on the node (north) on this page https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... rm_picture

Here is my entities.lua

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data:extend(
	{
		{
			type = "inserter",
			-- Prototype/Entity
			name = "jd-sign-post",
			flags = {"placeable-neutral", "player-creation"},
			icon = "__JD_Signposts__/graphics/jd-sign-post-item.png",
			--collision_box = {{-0.1, 0},{0.1, 0.3}},
			collision_box = {{-0.2, 0}, {0.2, 0.5}},
			collision_mask = { "item-layer", "object-layer", "player-layer", "water-tile"},
			selection_box = {{-0.5, -1.25},{0.5, 0.5}},
			drawing_box = selection_box,
			sticker_box = collision_box,
			weigth = 1,
			minable = {mining_time = 0.5, hardness = 0, result = "jd-sign-post", count = 1, mining_particle = "wooden-particle"},
			-- Prototype/EntityWithHealth
			max_health = 35,
			corpse = "small-remnants",
			picture = 
			{
				filename = "__JD_Signposts__/graphics/jd-sign-post-entity.png",
				priority = "extra-high",
				width = 32,
				height = 64,
				shift = {0, -0.5}
			},
			-- Prototype/Inserter
			filter_count = 1,
			energy_source = 
			{
				type = "burner",
				effectivity = 0
			},
			rotation_speed = 0,
			extension_speed = 0,
			insert_position = {0,0},
			pickup_position = {0,0},
			hand_base_picture =
			{
				filename = "",
				priority = "very-low",
				width = 0,
				height = 0
			},
			hand_open_picture = hand_base_picture,
			hand_closed_picture = hand_base_picture,
			hand_base_shadow = hand_base_picture,
			hand_closed_shadow = hand_base_picture,
			hand_open_shadow = hand_base_picture,
			platform_picture =
			{
				sheet = hand_base_picture
			}
		}
	}
)

And here is the error message i'm getting

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And last but not least, my log

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   0.000 2016-10-16 22:55:50; Factorio 0.13.20 (build 24011, win64, steam)
   0.001 Operating system: Windows 10 
   0.001 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe" 
   0.001 Read data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
   0.001 Write data path: C:/Users/JohnDoe/AppData/Roaming/Factorio
   0.001 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.012 Graphics options: [FullScreen: true] [VSync: true] [UIScale: 90%] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Graphics quality: normal] [Video memory usage: all] [Light scale: 100%] [Screen: 255] [DXT: false]
   0.013 Available display adapters: 2
   0.014  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 {0x05, [0,0], 1280x1024, 32bit, 75Hz}
   0.015  [7]: \\.\DISPLAY8 - AMD Radeon R7 200 Series {0x8000001, [-1280,0], 1280x1024, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.015 Create display on adapter 0. Size 1280x720 at position [0, 134].
   0.456 Initialised OpenGL:[0] GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2; driver: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 373.06
   0.457     Video memory size (dedicated/total available/current available): 4096/4096/3588 MB
   0.510 Desktop composition is active.
   0.626 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.631 Loading mod base 0.13.20 (data.lua)
   0.708 Loading mod JD_Signposts 0.0.1 (data.lua)
   0.766 Checksum for core: 303426634
   0.766 Checksum for mod base: 1460151764
   0.766 Checksum for mod JD_Signposts: 1924079771
   0.919 Error Util.cpp:57: Error while loading entity prototype "jd-sign-post" (inserter): No such node (north)
Modifications: JD_Signposts

If anyone has any idea why this is happening, please tell me on this thread

[Nexela]

Could it be related to missing circuit connector definitions?

[aubergine18]

It means it's looking for a `north` property on one of the other properties in the prototype. Difficult to know which property exactly, as the error message doesn't currently state that information. I ran in to similar problem yesterday.

What is the value of `hand_base_picture` btw? It's very likely that if its value is a raw image (which would work for most of the hand pictures), it won't be valid as a sprite sheet (which is what the `platform_picture` expects by default). If the platform_picture doesn't get a sprite sheet, it will try looking for .north, .east, .south and .west properties instead, and that's probably where your error is coming from.

All of the vanilla inserters use a `sheet` property, but I know from experimentations that you can use north/east/south/west properties instead of a sheet. For reference, search for the "inserter" definitions in this data.raw dump and you'll see the different formats of the hand picture tables and the platform_picture table: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/auber ... r/data.raw

[JohnnyDeee]

What is the value of `hand_base_picture` btw? It's very likely that if its value is a raw image (which would work for most of the hand pictures), it won't be valid as a sprite sheet (which is what the `platform_picture` expects by default). If the platform_picture doesn't get a sprite sheet, it will try looking for .north, .east, .south and .west properties instead, and that's probably where your error is coming from.

Apparently trying to shorten my code by using

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property = other property

doesn't work..

So i changed all the pictures and shadows to this

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property = 
{
    filename = "",
    priority = "very-low",
    width = 0,
    height = 0
}

And that seems to work (dealing with other errors atm so i cant test it in game)

Thanks for your reply aubergine18

[aubergine18]

If you ever need empty image, best way I've found is to use "__core__/graphics/empty.png" which is 1x1 pixel transparent image.

[JohnnyDeee]

If you ever need empty image, best way I've found is to use "__core__/graphics/empty.png" which is 1x1 pixel transparent image.

Thanks! That will be usefull