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TL;DR

I want to spawn different color fire entities, but I cannot do it very easily.

What ?

Trying to create a new fire entity, in the same way that I do other custom entities, and modify the tint value, duration, and damage. I cannot because I basically need to copy over every function in the file (to get pictures, and the smoke, etc.), at which point I get an error about not using fire-smoke as it's been deprecated in favor of trivial smoke.

This seems like a lack of understanding how Factorio modding works. I'm going to move this into the modding help section where you're far more likely to get useful help.

I discovered the problem. my working directory was pre .17 while my testing directory was post .17

After fixing this, I am able to copy the fireutil, fireutil.foreach, and fireutil.create_fire_pictures and just do a deepcopy of the fire-flame and modify that.

I then had to copy the graphics from the base and change the references to them in the fireutil function.