A way to export appearances as icons.

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ID:2039888
 
Feb 19 2016, 10:39 am
Resolved
client.RenderIcon() can now be used to create an icon file from an appearance, leveraging the client's rendering capabilities. Additionally, appearance reference strings (from the ref() proc or \ref operator) should be usable in outputs and browser controls.
Applies to:DM Language
Status: Resolved (515.1590)
This issue has been resolved.
It's hard to export the appearance of something, it requires you to do all the operations on the overlays, underlays, etc... and that's probably gonna get even harder with 510 due to KEEP_TOGETHER.

It'd be incredibly nice if there was a proc like appearance.toIcon() that "exported" the appearance to a /icon datum for use in other procs (a big one that comes to mind is browse_rsc()).

Another way to do it would be icon(appearance) or something like that, which wouldn't require a new proc to be added.
Feb 19 2016, 11:41 am
Agreed, we actually brought this up to Lummox when he was first implementing the appearance variable, he said it was doable but not priority.
Jun 29 2016, 6:30 am
This feature would be very helpful for icon handling and consistency on in-game images, for example.
Jun 29 2016, 12:19 pm
the suggested syntax was just to make the icon() proc support taking in an appearance.
Jun 30 2016, 7:50 am
Another potential idea somebody gave me for the syntax could be something like an appearance var on icons, then doing icon.appearance = otherappearance would have the same effect.

Not my idea though.
Jul 25 2016, 9:56 pm
bumping this after growing a few grey hairs trying to optimize our getFlatIcon() proc while thinking man, if only there was a byond way to do this.

Jul 25 2016, 10:15 pm
+1 to this.
Jul 25 2016, 11:41 pm
I +1 this every time someone bumps it, bump bump, been bumping it since before the feature existed in the language.
Jul 26 2016, 1:47 am
this would be really helpful
Jul 26 2016, 7:21 pm
+1, mostly for the same reasons MSO gave; getFlatIcon, at least as used on Bay, is ludicrously slow.
Jul 26 2016, 7:55 pm
Icon flattening is slow, no matter how you do it, I've tried soooo many different methods.
Jul 28 2016, 11:00 am
+1 I've tried so many things to make flattening icons faster, please lummox.
Jul 28 2016, 1:37 pm
Perhaps a lot of work to make, but it would be an extremely useful feature for those using the language.
Sep 16 2016, 4:30 am
After encountering yet another bug/oddity with our hacky getflaticon(), I have come to only one conclusion, we NEEDS this.
Sep 16 2016, 10:11 am
In response to MrStonedOne
Honestly surprised it took you this long to come to that conclusion to be honest.
Sep 16 2016, 8:35 pm
+1 to this.
Sep 20 2016, 2:15 am
super plus one!
Sep 20 2016, 10:23 pm
And another getflaticon() bug!

Help us lummox one, you're our only hope!
Sep 20 2016, 10:30 pm
Listified.
Apr 11 2017, 12:12 pm
var/icon/i = new/icon(mob.appearance)

I beg you (constructing the appearance manually with Blend would mean having to record the order of each overlay to achieve the desired effect)
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