[2.1.14] Rocket silo pipe connections shown under the silo

[cackling.fiend]

While for other prototypes the pipe connections are rendered on top of the machine, for the rocket silo it seems they are rendered below it. This has been the case in 2.0 and didn't change with 2.1.

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That wouldn't be a problem if you could move them properly with the render_layer or secondary_draw_orders but it seems the pipe_covers are not moved with the pipe_picture so they will just not be visible while the connections look very broken. The next screenshot has secondary_draw_orders.south set to 100. Using a higher render layer for the fluid_box has the same result.

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The reason this comes up now is that I got new graphics for the silo where the connection being rendered below the silo will be completely hidden.

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report. The rocket silo entity with its many *many* layers and logic to handle rockets rising from the ground and launching out of the silo was never implemented with support for fluid box covers in mind. I don't see a nice way to change that at this point and so I would say that rocket silos simply don't support fluidboxes.