Angled Beams

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Feb 22 2008, 4:15 pm
Is it possible to have a single straight beam in an icon and then having it turn to a certain angle through code? Like the icon would originally start out as a 32x32 icon in a 90 deg or 0 deg angle in respect to the x-axis of the icon(the bottom line of pixels in the 32x32 icon). Btw this beam is multi-tiled so it will have more than 1 icon.
Feb 22 2008, 4:36 pm
Yes, but you shouldn't.
Feb 22 2008, 5:41 pm
In response to Garthor
If it's possible, I want to apply it on byond. Anyone know how I would go about accomplishing that?
Feb 22 2008, 8:04 pm
In response to Kakashi24142
http://www.byond.com/docs/ref/info.html#/icon/proc/Turn

However, point is, this is going to require a whole lot of work, and a whole lot of extra files to download, for very little benefit. Especially if you design it poorly.
Feb 23 2008, 7:23 pm
In response to Garthor
And there's also inherent limitations because the icon operations are terribly slow.
Feb 25 2008, 8:33 pm
Well, what I would do here is I would pregenerate a state of the beam for every degree of rotation (potientially more than one thousand icon states in a .dmi file)

And then I would just place the graphical places of the beam with trigonometry. >_>
Feb 27 2008, 10:55 am
In response to D4RK3 54B3R
D4RK3 54B3R wrote:
Well, what I would do here is I would pregenerate a state of the beam for every degree of rotation (potientially more than one thousand icon states in a .dmi file)

And then I would just place the graphical places of the beam with trigonometry. >_>

I've done that before, but it only works if you have a centre-to-centre case -- pixel offsets will screw it up unless you want to draw a line pixel-by-pixel.

If you're going to do a non-pixel-by-pixel routine, you might as well use Kunark's Library. However, the library will be painfully slow over an internet connection.
Mar 27 2008, 3:14 pm
In response to Jtgibson
I'm not sure where people are getting problems with it being slow. I never had any problems with it with my crappy computer/connection. The pre-generated icons should have solved any speed problems.
Mar 27 2008, 6:20 pm
In response to Kunark
Ya it has no problems with lag at all, its alot better than say a while() with the Turn() proc, really now since icon operations lag alot more cause of the added Alpha addition to it.
Mar 28 2008, 5:21 am
In response to Kunark
I gave it a shot a long while ago and there was a decent delay that appeared during my testing whenever I drew a lot of lines simultaneously. However, I haven't tested it since then: I'll give it a whirl.