[Rseding91] [0.16.30] Character Corpse Position Issue

[Cooldude2606]

Problem either with the position of the character corpse or the surface.find_entity function:
This will return nil.

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entity = surface.create_entity{name="character-corpse", position={0,0}} 
game.print(type(surface.find_entity(entity.name, entity.position)))

While this returns the transport belt entity.

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entity = surface.create_entity{name="transport-belt", position={0,0}}
game.print(type(surface.find_entity(entity.name, entity.position)))

Note, this one does return the entiy and not nil.

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local entity = surface.create_entity{name="character-corpse", position={0,0}} 
local o = entity.position 
game.print(type(surface.find_entities_filtered{area={{o.x-1,o.y-1},{o.x+1,o.y+1}},name='character-corpse'}[1])

Just a quality of life thing: could on_player_died event include the corpse entity so that this function does not need to be ran.

[Valansch]

I found that find_entity doesnt work for any entity that doesnt have a hitbox. I tested it with:

• defender
  destroyer
  distractor
  construction-robot
  acid-splash-purple
  behemoth-biter-corpse
  big-biter-corpse
  big-worm-corpse
  medium-biter-corpse
  medium-remnants
  medium-spitter-corpse
  medium-worm-corpse
  small-biter-corpse
  small-remnants
  small-spitter-corpse
  small-worm-corpse
  hidden-electric-energy-interface
  big-artillery-explosion
  big-explosion
  blood-explosion-big
  blood-explosion-huge
  blood-explosion-small
  explosion
  explosion-hit
  ground-explosion
  laser-bubble
  massive-explosion
  medium-explosion
  uranium-cannon-explosion
  uranium-cannon-shell-explosion
  water-splash
  fire-flame
  fire-flame-on-tree
  construction-robot
  straight-rail-remnants
  construction-robot
  logistic-robot

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report. I've changed it so find_entity will match either the entity.position == position or entity.bounding_box.contains(position) for the next version of 0.16.