Is there a way to...

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Jun 12 2013, 10:48 pm
(See the best response by Kaiochao.)
Offset an icon and maintain its offset after using icon.Blend()?

Example: 
            var/icon/o = new(icon = icon, icon_state = icon_state)
            var/icon/p = new(src.icon)
            p.Blend(o, ICON_OVERLAY, y = -24)
            src.icon = p


That's an example verb I made just for this post.

The y = -24 setting moves the overlayed icon down, but cuts off the parts of it that pass the original icon's icon box size. What I'm looking for is a way to do this WITHOUT that behavior, as Blend()'s settings don't work like pixel_x/y (even though I feel like they should).

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
Jun 12 2013, 10:55 pm
Best response
Use an overlay?

You're gonna have to use pixel_x/y somewhere.
Jun 13 2013, 1:30 am
Yeah, unless you change the icon_size and keep the bounding box, it's going to be pretty hard to avoid overlays/underlays.
Jun 13 2013, 11:26 am
Another question: say I do change world.icon_size from the default, will I still be able to place bigger images/icons on the map without having to piece them together?
Jun 13 2013, 11:38 am
In response to FKI
world.icon_size is a misnomer. It really just means tile_size. In the map formats other than TILED_ICON_MAP, all atoms can have icons of any size.
Jun 13 2013, 11:40 am
In response to Kaiochao
Beautiful. Thanks for the info.
Jun 13 2013, 11:44 am
In response to Kaiochao
Pretty sure when using things like blend() it sets the icon to your icon size and cuts the rest, though. Would I be wrong in my statements?
Jun 13 2013, 12:34 pm
In response to NNAAAAHH
Blend() keeps the original icon's size.

i.Blend() will stay at i's size.