add an icon to the client's screen, which is bigger than dm

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May 31 2005, 3:44 am
I wanted to add an image to the client's screen by using client.screen+, it's screen_loc is "5,5". The icon is about 100x100 pixel, but when i play the game it is only as big as a dmi. I tried "5,5 to 10,10" but this creates only 100 times the same icon. How to make it bigger?
May 31 2005, 4:28 am
Sadly there isn't any automatic stuff to handle the placing of .pngs at runtime like there is in the map maker.
You'll just need to place x by x icons on the map (or in this case client screen) and set their icon_states manually.
The .png is cut up like it would be if you imported it as an icon. So it splits it into 32x32 pixel sections. I'm pretty sure the bottom left section would be icon_state "0,0".
So icon = 'image.png' icon_state = "0,0" would show the bottom left 32x32 pixels of the image.png file. If you leave it null it shows the entire image compressed into 32x32 pixels.
May 31 2005, 5:29 am (Edited on May 31 2005, 8:04 am)
In response to DarkView
Thanks. That's atleast better than cutting all the pics into 32x32 parts ^^
i did it :) i made it with a difficult proc, which i could make to a lib, to save other ppl the work
May 31 2005, 11:14 am
In response to CIB
_>
mob/verb/client_screen_thing(i as icon)
     for(var/a in icon_states(i))
         var/obj/c=new
         c.screen_loc=a
         c.icon_state=a
         client.screen+=a
Jun 1 2005, 1:24 am
In response to Hell Ramen
o.O ok lol this proc is better than mine