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ID:110207

Feb 28 2011, 3:24 pm

Soul Sign

Applies to:

Dream Maker

Status:	Open Issue hasn't been assigned a status value.
Duplicates:	id:98234

I don't want to pose a problem but it would have been good if you could get more information on an icon.

We do have a way to get the icon_states, but I am talking about how many frames? total delay? or delay for each frame? wether it has a moving state?
example

get_icon_info(icon,icon_state,frame,moving=0)
//set moving = 1 to know about moving_state frames of the icon

if you send the icon only you get a list of all icon_states // no point in that

if you send with an icon_state we get the total no. of frames in the icon_state and the sum of all delays of each frame.Also you could get to know if it has a moving state.

if send an icon_state and a frame then you get the delay for that frame.

Why I asked? It could pose more flexibility to the BYOND icon system.

However My intention was to get the delay and multiply it with a constant which is appropriatley choosen according to world.tick_lag.
Because if I want my process to be faster I would reduce tick_lag, but then the icon animation would be so fast and aggressive.

Alternate solution would be some icon_delay_multipier or something which multiplies each and every delay in every frame of every icon_state with a constant. I hope at least that would be easy to implement.

Mar 1 2011, 9:18 am
Falacy	http://www.byond.com/members/ BYONDHelp?command=view_tracker_issue&tracker_issue=1220 Though, if your goal is to change the speed of an animation, I'm not sure this would be the best way to handle it.

Mar 7 2011, 8:05 pm
Soul Sign	Or if Byond would put an atom.animation_speed var? Default value of animation_speed=1, you could change it if you want, anything like that would do.