All entities having animations

[ficolas]

Instead of making containers, etc have a "picture" field and other entities have an "animation" field, why not all of the entities to have "animation" field, like so, we could add animations to containers, and other stuff.

[slpwnd]

It would be nice to have a generic interface, but it is not as straightforward. The problem is for instance how would the animation updating be defined. In the laboratory / assembling machine this is defined by the amount of consumed energy per tick, so they move only when they are processing something. How would this be for the container ? Based on the tick ?

[ficolas]

another field called "animation_speed"?
Also I would want an animation speed for the assembly machines, the forge in my mod seems like bugged...