game.createentity doesn't work as expected

[wahming]

Using the following code:

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game.createentity {name = "basic-transport-belt", position = ent.position, direction = ent.direction, force = ent.force}

gives me a basic transport belt as expected. However, the belts do not join with each other cleanly as expected. E.g. when turning corners, they don't automatically reshape. Is there any command I can call to trigger a recalculation of the belt shape and layout?

[Rseding91]

Can you post some images of what's happening? Because it works perfectly for me when I test it.

Are you adjusting the position of the belt? It looks like you're creating belts directly on top of another entity?

[itzJanuary]

The only thing i figured is to use

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local buildEntity = {name = "basic-transport-belt", position = ent.position}
local player = game.player

--Make sure the player has nothing on the cursor
local cursorStackBackup = player.cursorstack
player.cursorstack = nil

--Set the mouse position
local oldPosition = player.cursorposition

player.cursorposition = game.real2screenposition({buildEntity.position.x, buildEntity.position.y})
player.cursorstack = {name = buildEntity.name, count = 1}
player.buildfromcursor()

--Return to the old location of the mouse and set the cursorstack again
player.cursorposition = oldPosition
player.cursorstack = cursorStackBackup

This is certainly not the best solution by a long shot but due to the nature of that 'buildfromcursor()' function you will get EXCACTLY the same behaviour as when the player would have placed something via mouseclick.

[Rseding91]

Are you making a belt on top of another belt trying to fast-replace it?

If so, you need to destroy the old belt first and then build the new belt.