daid / daid/EmptyEpsilon

[Bug] Medium-sized mines launched by players have a larger radar blip than default mines created by scripting

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To make script mines the same size as the player-launched medium:

From d2214eb8b74bde3a4413af8669acf2627b35f593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: oznogon <oznogon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:35:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Align Lua API mine size to default player-launched mine size

---
 scripts/api/entity/mine.lua | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/api/entity/mine.lua b/scripts/api/entity/mine.lua
index 8c783d2a8c..1eeafd765e 100644
--- a/scripts/api/entity/mine.lua
+++ b/scripts/api/entity/mine.lua
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ function Mine()
     local blast_range = 1000.0
     local e = createEntity()
     e.components.transform = {}
-    e.components.radar_trace = {icon="radar/mine.png", min_size=10, max_size = 10}
+    e.components.radar_trace = {icon="radar/mine.png", min_size=16, max_size = 16}
     e.components.constant_particle_emitter = {interval=0.4, start_color={1, 1, 1}, end_color={0, 0, 1}, start_size=30.0, end_size=0.0, life_time=10.0}
     e.components.radar_signature = {electrical=0.05}
     e.components.avoid_object = {range=blast_range*1.2}

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Start in scripts/api/entity/mine.lua and inspect the radar_trace values used by the Mine() Lua API entity. Compare a script-created mine with a player-launched medium mine in the game; done means both produce the same-sized radar blip.

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Tech stack
lua
Domain
api, game-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
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