[2.0.72] Beam "random_end_animation_rotation" is treated as always true

[bolderbrush10]

Noticed this shortly after 2.0 launched, but after a year of poking around and waiting, the problem has sadly failed to fix itself.
It's possible that I failed to find the right flag or setting to fix this, but I'm utterly at a loss, so the boolean "random_end_animation_rotation" is my best guess for the problem.

Attached minimum reproduction mods and saves for pre-and-post factorio 2.0 to showcase behavior.

Expected, pre-2.0 behavior: The beam ending is aligned with the orientation of the entity that has created the beam when random_end_animation_rotation is false (see orange arrow in below screenshot), and aligned randomly when it is true (green arrow below).
The graphics for the beam are defined in TestTurretBeam.ground_light_animations.ending, and are shaped as arrows in the attached mod

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Buggy, post-2.0 behavior: The beam ending is seemingly randomly-oriented every time the beam is created, regardless of how random_end_animation_rotation is set or the orientation of the originating-entity.
The graphics for the beam are now defined in TestTurretBeam.graphics_set.ground.ending

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This is causing an ugly effect for my mod SearchlightAssault, where the spot light it casts no longer matches the turret (it looks especially bad in motion):

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[bolderbrush10]

I suspect that something got tweaked or dropped during the transition to factorio 2.0 and its use of "graphics set" instead of "ground light animations"

[Rseding91]

Thanks for hte report however this is a simple modding error. The value is on the graphics_set and not on the beam prototype (see https://lua-api.factorio.com/stable/typ ... csSet.html). I highly recommend you go into the settings and enable the "check-unused-prototype-data" option which will tell you when a value you set is not used by the engine.

Code: Select all

Warning PrototypeLoader.cpp:199: Value ROOT.electric-turret.TestBeamTurret.attack_parameters.ammo_type.category was not used.
Warning PrototypeLoader.cpp:199: Value ROOT.electric-turret.TestBeamTurretRand.attack_parameters.ammo_type.category was not used.
Warning PrototypeLoader.cpp:199: Value ROOT.beam.test-turret-beam.random_end_animation_rotation was not used.
Warning PrototypeLoader.cpp:199: Value ROOT.beam.test-turret-beam-rand.random_end_animation_rotation was not used.

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[bolderbrush10]

Much appreciated, thank you!