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Posted: **Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:23 pm**

Simple request: give us entity.direction Read/write properties.
This cause bug in my mod teleinserter. When you place teleniserter, rotate it and then connect to output teleinserter, the input teleinserter is switch to the one with higher energy usage, but information about its direction is missing, because its read only and it will spawn in default position, this is very inconvenient.

Posted: **Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:35 pm**

Hm, you can give createentity a direction to spawn it in, I'll check the wiki and add that info if it's not there.
Here's a screenshot of what

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for i=0,6,2 do 
    game.createentity{name="basic-inserter", position={game.player.position.x+i,game.player.position.y+i}, direction=i} 
end

does (the direction should actually be defines.direction, but I wanted a quick way to get the main four directions so...yeah).

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edit: in fact the other directions work as well, I didn't think they would with inserters (since you can't rotate them at an angle manually)

Posted: **Tue Jun 10, 2014 7:45 pm**

You are my hero! Thank YOU! - it work perfectly. Oh my god im so blind, everything is on wiki. sorry.

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