[15.35] auto-cropping of beam sprites makes them misalign

[Meppi]

As discussed in this thread, the automatic cropping of beam sprites causes head, body and tail to misalign, due to changing the rotation center.

[posila]

Thanks for the report.
Use

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flags = { "no-crop" }

in the sprite/animation definition. See for example "defender-capsule"

[Meppi]

Ah thanks, the distractor-robots lightning beam uses the same workaround though.

[eradicator]

It would be pretty awesome is this kind of barely-known flag and some off the other oddities of prototype definitions were as well documented as the rest of the http://lua-api.factorio.com/ . Google finds only one thread (another bug report) that even mentiones "no-crop" at all.

[Bilka]

It would be pretty awesome is this kind of barely-known flag and some off the other oddities of prototype definitions were as well documented as the rest of the http://lua-api.factorio.com/ . Google finds only one thread (another bug report) that even mentiones "no-crop" at all.

That documentation is about the control stage, not the data stage, sadly. For a barebones documentation of the data stage (prototypes etc) see the wiki: https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype_definitions . That's also where I'll add the flag. The prototpyes currently cannot be automatically documented from the game code, which is why there is no good documentation. I already annoyed Rseding by asking for it over and over