Color var to icons

ID:2227079
 
Mar 21 2017, 9:36 am
Redundant
Applies to:DM Language
Status: Redundant
This feature has already been implemented, or is already achievable with existing methods.
It would be neat if It were possible to do animate(src.icon, color for example. I wouldn't need to set a RESET_COLOR appearence_flag to every overlay. If there is a way around it please let me know :)
Mar 21 2017, 9:47 am
I don't entirely understand what you're asking. If you mean you want to be able to animate the main atom's color without affecting overlays, then RESET_COLOR is exactly the right way to handle that.
Mar 21 2017, 9:48 am
In response to Lummox JR
That's exactly what I mean. But I'd have to add the appearence_flag to every overlay, and that's bothersome.
Mar 21 2017, 10:21 am
In response to Lummox JR
He's asking for the /icon type to have its own color variable instead of just atoms and clients so that he can edit an icon's color without having to manually set appearance_flags for every overlay.
Mar 21 2017, 10:49 am
In response to Unwanted4Murder
Unwanted4Murder wrote:
He's asking for the /icon type to have its own color variable instead of just atoms and clients so that he can edit an icon's color without having to manually set appearance_flags for every overlay.

I don't think you're right, because /icon becomes an actual cache icon when applied to an atom.
Mar 21 2017, 10:52 am
In response to Lummox JR
He is right about what I want to do tho. I want to edit a mob's icon color without having to manually set appeanrece_flags for every overlay, for example.
Mar 21 2017, 11:02 am
That's what RESET_COLOR is for. This would be totally redundant.
Mar 21 2017, 11:02 am
Lummox JR resolved issue (Redundant)
Mar 21 2017, 11:04 am
In response to Lummox JR
It wouldn't be redundant imo. It would make my life way easier. Atm I have to set RESET_COLOR for every object that is used as an overlay. Wouldn't it be better if I could just change the mob's icon color without any hassle?
Mar 21 2017, 11:24 am
In response to NSBR
NSBR wrote:
It wouldn't be redundant imo. It would make my life way easier. Atm I have to set RESET_COLOR for every object that is used as an overlay. Wouldn't it be better if I could just change the mob's icon color without any hassle?

No, because it would involve having two different flags to do the same thing.
Mar 21 2017, 1:24 pm
If anything RESET_COLOR should only need set once in the path of the object overlays. Not for each separately.
Mar 21 2017, 3:39 pm
In response to Kozuma3
Could you perhaps show me how to do that? Thanks in advance.
Mar 22 2017, 10:13 am
The top way is how I believe you're doing it and the bottom way would be the easiest way imo.

obj
    Hat
        appearance_flags = RESET_COLOR
    Shirt
        appearance_flags = RESET_COLOR
obj/clothes
    appearance_flags = RESET_COLOR
    Hat
    Shirt
Mar 22 2017, 11:16 am
In response to Kozuma3
Yeah the bottom way is the way I'm doing it. The problem is I set large ammounts of overlays, some don't have a parent and many are added just using the .dmi file.
Mar 22 2017, 11:42 am
In response to NSBR
NSBR wrote:
Yeah the bottom way is the way I'm doing it. The problem is I set large ammounts of overlays, some don't have a parent and many are added just using the .dmi file.

Then don't do that. Make a type for it.
Mar 23 2017, 10:48 am
In response to Lummox JR
It'd be way easier if there were an appearence_flag to add to the mob, were it's overlays wouldn't get any color set to them. Like RESET_OVL_COLOR
Mar 23 2017, 12:34 pm
In response to NSBR
NSBR wrote:
It'd be way easier if there were an appearence_flag to add to the mob, were it's overlays wouldn't get any color set to them. Like RESET_OVL_COLOR

That's never going to happen, because RESET_COLOR handles it already. The new flag would be redundant, and there simply isn't room for umpteen flags.