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Currently you can only change the render_layer property for very few entities like smoke and simple-entity.
It would be nice if more entity types would support this.

Specifically I want to create elevated train tracks and for this it would be necessary to either change the render layer of rails or of locomotives/cargo wagons.
Currently I'm making the tracks invisible and spawn additional visual entities of type "simple-entity" ontop (which support custom render layers) because the tracks themself seem to be always drawn underneath of everything. But this creates new clipping issues with the locomotive...

So you have made this request. Please allow me to add a few:
- render layer for inserter base
- render layer for the light indicator of fluid turrets.

I hope render layers can be changed per sprite rather than per entity, but I know it is difficult to do.

Please let me extend the previously mentioned list of entities by constant combinators.

Currently, setting the render_layer to "floor" will be ignored by the game for any kind of cc-based entities (like pressure plates or signs). This results in ugly clipping effects, as soon as vehicles drive across those entities.

Is it posible to remove the hardcoded render_layer for constant combinators, like it has been done recently for vehicles?