Way to specify an entity's "blueprint counterpart"

Reika · Post by **Reika** » Fri Jul 21, 2017 6:53 pm

As per this

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=51097

Basically a way to tell the game "this entity is actually placed by item X, and so should blueprint as it, not be ignored entirely".

eradicator · Post by **eradicator** » Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:12 am

The "curved-rail" prototype already has a "placeable_by" attribute. If that attribute was inherited to all LuaEntityPrototype it would indeed solve many blueprinting issues involving multi-entity constructs that mods frequently have to rely on.
(Also if possible at all it would be nice to have free placing with something like placeable_by = {} in some rare cases.)

Post by **Rseding91** » Sun Oct 08, 2017 4:42 am

eradicator wrote:The "curved-rail" prototype already has a "placeable_by" attribute. If that attribute was inherited to all LuaEntityPrototype it would indeed solve many blueprinting issues involving multi-entity constructs that mods frequently have to rely on.
(Also if possible at all it would be nice to have free placing with something like placeable_by = {} in some rare cases.)

It is supported by every entity prototype.

eradicator · Post by **eradicator** » Sun Oct 08, 2017 9:03 am

Rseding91 wrote:It is supported by every entity prototype.

Oooh? Really?!

. It's not in the documentation though.

Post by **Rseding91** » Sun Oct 08, 2017 5:24 pm

eradicator wrote:
Rseding91 wrote:It is supported by every entity prototype.
Oooh? Really?! . It's not in the documentation though.

It's a prototype property - we haven't documented any of those.

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