Different numbering of Figure environment with separate captions

Question

I would like to include figures and application snippets in my report. Both of them are supplied as png and in Figure environment. While I know how to rename the entire Figure environment, is there any way to separate them, so I can have separate numbering for Figure environment, such as Figure.1 and Snippet.1.

Answer 1

It appears that my question can be dealt with newfloat package. I am still working through understanding how that works, but I believe the question is answered.