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I want to use rendering.draw_animation or rendering.draw_sprite to draw my own copies of entities. Currently, the only way to get those graphics is by iterating entities and copying their graphic information into an animation/sprite prototype during data stage.

I would like LuaEntityPrototype to have an attribute of sprite or animation which returns something which can be passed directly to rendering.draw_animation/sprite.

There's no simple or generic way to make this work on the engine side. Near every entity has some special rendering logic in how it eventually shows in-game. That makes it impossible to simply map an entity to "draw sprite/animation" without hand-written logic for every case (functionally copying the drawing code from each entity).