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In reference to some ongoing discussions. A getdirection() method for entities would be nice.

Also if you use "assembling-machine"-type buildings that dont have a square-sized collision-/ selection-box, the bulding can rotate (what is very cool) but the textures wont. So it would be cool to be able to add a direction-count- attribute to the animation (like the belts have). If direction == 1 then display animation from row 1 in the specific *.png if direction == 2 then display animation from row 2.

Also be able to define multiple collision boxes for one entity can be useful. So something like this can be made then: For example this can be useful to create a "garage", but there are multiple other situations where this can be handy.

EDIT: Only the collision box is affected by rotating the building. The selction box is allways the same.

I told this to kovarex some time ago, and for the garage, maybe another usefull and cool thing can be multibyilding buildings

In short you would like to have building which spans thwough multiple map cels and have colision limited to only come map cels. I belive this could only be posible if the buidling is being treated by game as several seperate segments.