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Is there a way to perform a capsule action within a script?
What I'm trying to do is to create a artillery remote the creates multiple targets at once in a pattern.
I've tried to use create entity to spawn the artillery-flare, but that just results in the particle being created.
As far as I've been able to find from looking through http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/index.html , there doesn't seem to be a way to perform a capsule action.

An additional thing I've tried:
I tried making a projectile that would then do the action, but regardless of where I put it, it would not accept "capsule-action" or "artillery-remote" anywhere within it's action tree.