[15.16] inserting onto underground inconsistency

[gustaphe]

This is half bug report - half feature request.
When placing items on a belt by inserter, items are generally placed in the front-right corner from the inserter's view. This doesn't hold for inserting on underground belt in or against the belt direction, where it will place on the right in the belt's direction, ignoring the direction of the inserter.
This inconsistency didn't really bother me before the introduction of long-underground-blues, but now that the setup in the picture below is actually viable, it would be a major help in station design.

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Notice how only one half of each belt is filled.

[mrvn]

If you use long inserters to place items on a belt before the underground you still get the same one sided filling, right?

Or in other words this is not special to underground belts but all belts in general, right?

[gustaphe]

You're right, didn't even think of that.
In other words, rotating a belt 180° changes an item's placement on that belt differently depending on whether the inserter placing the item is in line with the belt or orthogonal to it.

[Rseding91]

You're right, didn't even think of that.
In other words, rotating a belt 180° changes an item's placement on that belt differently depending on whether the inserter placing the item is in line with the belt or orthogonal to it.

I don't consider this something worth changing. Unless we said in the past it should work some other way and it isn't at best it's a feature request.

[mrvn]

You're right, didn't even think of that.
In other words, rotating a belt 180° changes an item's placement on that belt differently depending on whether the inserter placing the item is in line with the belt or orthogonal to it.

I don't consider this something worth changing. Unless we said in the past it should work some other way and it isn't at best it's a feature request.

When coming from the side an inserter always puts items at the far side. Placement depends on the direction the inserter is facing. This makes sense.
When going along it always puts it on the right side in the direction of travel of the belt. Now suddenly the inserter knows what direction the belt is moving and decides to behave differently? This makes no sense.

Just saying.