Add support for back_patch, front_patch to loader entity (from underground belt)

[kirazy]

The underground belt in 0.17 has a front_patch and back_patch property that helps with the layering around items and other structures.

I'd like to request this property be applied to the loader as well, so that I can make 0.17-vanilla-style sprites as well. Currently it's not possible. :[

[Deadlock989]

Hi,

With 0.17 and the graphics reworking, underground belts got a new back_patch and front_patch component definition in the sprite structure:

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["underground-belt"] = {
    ["express-underground-belt"] = {
      ...
      structure = {
        back_patch = {
        ...
        },
        direction_in = {
        ...
        },

This lets you simulate the appearance of a 3D structure to the underground, letting a piece of the structure get drawn behind the belt feeding into the underground.

Loaders followed the same sprite structure before 0.17, and they are similar to undergrounds in many other ways (belts feeding in and out, rotatable between in/out belt direction instead of turning around, same sprite definitions etc.). However in tests with a new model for loaders, it seems the back_patch component of the sprite structure is ignored - see pic below.

Could these be added to loaders as well please? Many thanks.

[Boodals]

This has already been requested: 66071

Edit by Bilka: Merged with the above topic

[kirazy]

The underground belt prototype has optional structure properties "back_patch" and "front_patch".

I request that these two optional properties be added to the loader prototype as well, so that we can replicate the graphical style properly with the new belts.



Currently without these properties the texture sits on top of the belt (and items on the belt!) graphics when using the vanilla textures.

Any hope of this? :C

[Deadlock989]

I asked about this before and was told it won't be sorted out until they know what to do with the vanilla loaders in the campaign.

[kirazy]

Hm. Interesting. Thanks for the info, though!

[Deadlock989]

Just in case it looked like I was saying otherwise - this request gets a massive +1 from me. Functionally, loaders are very similar to undergrounds and it makes complete sense that they'd have the same sprite structure.

[Bilka]

Hey, I merged 3 different topics that asked for this. Please don't make new topics when there are already existing topics asking for exactly the same thing. It makes it harder for us to keep an overview of who wants what and why. Thank you.

[raiguard]

Is there a chance of this happening now? It seems that using loaders in the campaign has been scrapped.

My "Infinity Loader" entity uses an underground belt because it has front_patch and back_patch support. If loaders supported this, then I could use that instead and avoid a bunch of issues relating to using underground belts with a connection distance of zero (since this entity spawns its own items, it doesn't connect to another underground belt).

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[Bilka]

Staplergun added this in 0.17.65.