Icon_state doesn't work for mobs?

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ID:1231315 Apr 8 2013, 1:04 pm (See the best response by Albro1.)
Braekyn	So, for some reason, icon_states aren't working for mobs. Objs and turfs work fine, but it does not seem to allow anything other than a null icon_state for mobs - If all my states are named, it shows no icon, but it will show an unnamed state, regardless of the fact that I've defined it to use a specific state. Any ideas as to why?

Apr 8 2013, 1:10 pm
The Motto	Perhaps you aren't defining them properly. Mind Posting a peace of your coding(which involves icon_state being applied of course.) ?

Apr 8 2013, 1:26 pm

Braekyn

Not doing anything weird with it, at the moment, but I'm planning on having icons for 5 degree intervals of direction, so I need to get this working again.

mob
    icon='mob.dmi'
    red
        icon_state="red"
    blue
        icon_state="blue"
    green
        icon_state="green"
    Login()
        loc=locate(8,8,1)
        ..()

Note, when I tried this (below), and placed the objs on the map, it worked without any issues. With mobs placed directly on the map, no-go.

obj
    icon='mob.dmi'
    red
        icon_state="red"
    blue
        icon_state="blue"
    green
        icon_state="green"
        ..()

Apr 8 2013, 1:27 pm
Albro1	Can you post a screenshot of your icon file so I can check the state names?

Apr 8 2013, 1:28 pm
Braekyn	They are exactly as spelt. red. blue. green. That was the very first thing I checked. When I changed the tree from a mob tree to an obj tree, it magically worked. When I switched it back to mob, it stopped working again.

Apr 8 2013, 1:29 pm
Raimo	I don't see anything wrong. Are those the actual iconstates you're using in the icon file?

Apr 8 2013, 1:33 pm
Braekyn	Yeah. I don't see anything wrong either. I'm not posting this because I've been playing with BYOND for 2 weeks, and have no idea what I'm doing. I've been playing around with BYOND for 8 years, on and off, and I've never encountered this issue before. All the more irritating because it is the most basic of procedures out there.

Apr 8 2013, 1:33 pm Best response
Albro1	Is that the only code you have referring to the mob? Perhaps something you are doing elsewhere is causing this.

Apr 8 2013, 1:38 pm
Braekyn	Ah - There we go. Thanks, I'd forgotten that in part of the engine I'm re-using, I had already implemented the radial states, so it kept trying to change it to a number in degrees :/