change color of objs in list()

ID:1517537
 
Mar 13 2014, 7:41 pm
(See the best response by Ter13.)
Code:
mob/proc/Auracolor(Auraover)
    var/Auracolor = input("what color?") as color
    Auraover += Auracolor
    usr.overlays += Auraover


mob/verb
    change_color()
        var/Auraover=usr.aura
        usr.Auracolor(Auraover)
        return

mob/var/list/aura=list(/obj/AURA1,/obj/AURA2,/obj/AURA3,/obj/AURA4,/obj/AURA5,/obj/AURA6,/obj/AURA7,/obj/AURA8,/obj/AURA9)

obj
    AURA1
        icon='aurasennin.dmi';icon_state="medio";layer=4500;pixel_y = 32
    AURA2
        layer=5;icon='aurasennin.dmi';icon_state="medioder";pixel_x = 32;pixel_y = 32;
    AURA3
        layer=4500;icon='aurasennin.dmi';icon_state="medioizk";pixel_x = -32;pixel_y = 32
    AURA4
        icon='aurasennin.dmi';icon_state="abajo";layer=4500
    AURA5
        layer=4500;icon='aurasennin.dmi';icon_state="abajoder";pixel_x = 32
    AURA6
        layer=4500;icon='aurasennin.dmi';icon_state="abajoizk";pixel_x = -32
    AURA7
        icon='aurasennin.dmi';icon_state="arriba";layer=4500;pixel_y = 64
    AURA8
        layer=4500;icon='aurasennin.dmi';icon_state="arribader";pixel_x = 32;pixel_y = 64
    AURA9
        layer=4500;icon='aurasennin.dmi';icon_state="arribaizk";pixel_x = -32;pixel_y = 64


Problem description:
Hello good night,I want to do is that when you change the color of the aura do all overlyas of aura list(),but only get the default color of the icon (orange in this case)

How I can do to change the color of the objects in the aura list()?
Mar 13 2014, 8:05 pm
You should use images instead of objects if they're going to be purely visual.

You're going to have to for() all the auras and apply Auracolor() to each since it looks like you keep them in separate files for I assume different poses.

You don't even need to keep a list of auras like that ,since that bloats the savefile I assume this character is attached to. Just keep it as a single image and change it's icon / apply the same color over.
Mar 14 2014, 7:13 am
you can give me an example please try this but I get a mathematical error:

mob/verb
    change_color()
        var/Auraover== image('aurasennin.dmi',"medio")
        usr.Auracolor(Auraover)
        return
Mar 14 2014, 9:22 am
Best response
@JEY:

You do realize that you don't need to break icons up into 32x32 chunks anymore right? BYOND supports large icons now, and you don't have to have every frame in your game equal to the icon_size of the world anymore.

We haven't had to do that since at least 2005. You are using an almost decade-old technique.

Combine all those aura objects back into a single large image, and you will only need to modify one object.
Mar 14 2014, 9:31 am
but my map type is tiled_icon_map ,far as I know in this format is required to use this archaic method :-s
Mar 14 2014, 9:58 am
tiled_icon_map should not be used at all. It's only there for legacy support.

tiled_icon_map became obsolete almost 10 years ago.
Mar 14 2014, 10:16 am
I know, I thought it would be any easy way to change the whole map of the game thank you very much U.U