client.screen help! Come on BYOND coders!

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Nov 16 2008, 12:19 pm
Need to rattle your brains fellow BYOND coders, I've hit a stump!

Is there a way to add things to client.screen when your eye is in a different place.


For example, Your mob is in a grassy field somewhere, and your client.eye is on a screen on a different Z layer. How can I add an object only the client can see to the screen, seems using client.eye is only visible when the client can see the mob.
Nov 16 2008, 12:27 pm
This is a strange problem, do you think it might be a bug?

Either way, you can use /image objects and position them in certain areas. Then, you can output them to the client.
Nov 16 2008, 12:28 pm
You probably need to change your client's perspective?
Nov 16 2008, 12:31 pm
In response to Foomer
You have two different perspectives you can change to, EYE_PERSPECTIVE which you need anyway if not screen goes black, and EDGE_PERSPECTIVE which doesn't help anyway :P
Nov 16 2008, 12:31 pm
In response to Jeff8500
How would I go bout doing that then? :P (Is a 4.0 noob)
Nov 16 2008, 12:33 pm
In response to DarkBelthazor
Images aren't exactly a 4.0 thing, to my knowledge.

mob/proc/Add_Image_At_1_1()
      var/image/I = image('icon.dmi',locate(1,1,1))
      src << I //only src can see the image


I suggest looking up the image() proc, as well as the /image object in general.