Defining Objects Sprite

ID:145449
 
Mar 18 2006, 4:31 pm (Edited on Mar 18 2006, 4:37 pm)
 
mob/Player
         Login()
         icon = 'Player.dmi'
         New(mob/Player = "1,1,1")
         Logout()


The object won't show its sprite when I log in. There seems to be no errors though. I've also tried it without the ".dmi" tag but it still didn't work.

Mar 18 2006, 4:40 pm
Spacing is off, your not called the parent proc, and what's with the New(mob/player = "1,1,1") part? Makes no sense to me.

mob/Login() //mob/login works for anything 
     ..() //call the parent
     icon = 'Player.dmi' //its not best to define the icon here, but whatever
     var/mob/player/P = new /mob/player //set a var thats a mob/player, called P, and create a new /mob/player
     P.loc = locate(1,1,1) //relocate the player to 1,1,1


I assume that's what you're trying to get at? If not, post something.
Mar 18 2006, 4:46 pm
In response to Pyro_dragons
Ok thanks I'll try that.
New(Player "1,1,1")
Mar 18 2006, 4:48 pm
In response to Madow
New(Player "1,1,1')? That's not going to do anything, it doesn't even make sense.
Mar 18 2006, 4:53 pm
In response to Pyro_dragons
Hey, don't get pissed off at me just because I wrote something that doesn't make sense
Mar 18 2006, 4:56 pm
In response to Madow
I'm not.

Again, defining the icon for the player at login is a bad idea. What if the players female? Or if they aren't a human char? It's better to define them a little like this.

mob/player
    icon = 'player.dmi'
    if(gender == male)
         icon_state = "male"
    if(gender == female)
         icon_state = "female"


This way when a new player is created they have their icon male or female. This also is a bad way to do it, but better than just doing it at login.
Mar 18 2006, 4:58 pm
In response to Pyro_dragons
Ok thanks
Is this right? I've modified due to errors.

mob/Login()
.()
icon = 'Player.dmi'
var/mob/Player = new /mob/Player
Player.loc = locate(1,1,1)
Mar 18 2006, 5:31 pm
In response to Madow
Almost, the parent is called with ..() not .()
Mar 18 2006, 5:53 pm
In response to Pyro_dragons
Oh yeah, I get this error about loop checks. I used the default loop check that they gave me when I loaded the game. I tried the loop check but it didn't work.

Edit: OMFG thanks!
Mar 18 2006, 7:06 pm
In response to Pyro_dragons
Pyro_dragons wrote:
I'm not.

Again, defining the icon for the player at login is a bad idea. What if the players female? Or if they aren't a human char? It's better to define them a little like this.

mob/player
>     icon = 'player.dmi'
>     if(gender == male)
>          icon_state = "male"
>     if(gender == female)
>          icon_state = "female"

This way when a new player is created they have their icon male or female. This also is a bad way to do it, but better than just doing it at login.

A few problems with that. You can't set the mobs icon like that. It has to be in a proc.
mob/player/Login()
  ..()
  icon = 'player.dmi'
  icon_state = usr.gender

//I would suggest though:
mob/player
  icon = 'player.dmi'
//then in Login(), it sets the state as the user's gender.
Mar 18 2006, 7:46 pm
In response to SJRDOZER
No its doesn't your completey wrong and you haven't show a proc in your coding all you have showed is a mob Read the DM guid some more before you try to correct someone
Mar 18 2006, 10:25 pm
In response to A.T.H.K
A.T.H.K wrote:
No its doesn't your completey wrong and you haven't show a proc in your coding all you have showed is a mob Read the DM guid some more before you try to correct someone

Actually, he is completely right. You can't carry out a procedure from the definition of an atom. It just doesn't work that way. And, it wasn't his coding.

I think you should read the guide, and perhaps learn how to communicate in a forum properly. It could take a person literally hours to figure out what you said.

Mar 18 2006, 10:42 pm
In response to CaptFalcon33035
Don't cry now

"A few problems with that. You can't set the mobs icon like that. It has to be in a proc."

Where is the proc? i don't see it in his coding do you?

And you can set icons like that
Mar 18 2006, 11:11 pm
In response to A.T.H.K
"A few problems with that. You can't set the mobs icon like that. It has to be in a proc."

Where is the proc? i don't see it in his coding do you?

That's his point. It has to be in a proc. The person he was correcting did not have it in a proc.

And you can set icons like that

Not the way he was wanting to do it. SJRDOZER has the right idea here.
Mar 19 2006, 12:00 pm
In response to A.T.H.K
A.T.H.K wrote:
Don't cry now

I won't.

"A few problems with that. You can't set the mobs icon like that. It has to be in a proc."

In addition to what Audeuro stated, I'm pretty sure he meant icon_state. icon just being short for definition of the icon, whose state is included as well.