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Hi,

The new burner-generator entity used to be a kind of regular generator, which has the min_perceived_performance and performance_to_sound_speedup properties which allow you to set a lower cap on the animation speed and sound pitch.

Similarly, crafting machines have a match_animation_speed_to_activity boolean which prevents the animation speed being scaled to activity.

However in tests it seems that burner-generators have none of the above and it's not possible to have them not display jerky animations if they're running very slowly (e.g. feeding inserter drain only), or have specific animations that would have worked before but now seem odd when played at 1/30th speed (e.g. fire, lasers, fairy wing rainbow shimmers, all of the above combined etc.)

Could we get one of those for the burner generators, please? For my purposes the yes/no boolean would do just fine but I can see how it would make sense for them to behave like they did before like generators, where they still scale somewhat but you can set a lower cap on the animation speed.

Sorry for asking you about this and then just leaving you waiting. Added optional burner generator prototype properties alway_draw_idle_animation, performance_to_sound_speedup and min_perceived_performance for the next version.

min_perceived_performance can double as the match_animation_speed_to_activity boolean by setting it to the animation speed of your animation, so I did not add match_animation_speed_to_activity.

Perfect, thanks very much.