Memory friendly way to do this?

ID:154698
 
Jan 15 2012, 4:18 am
This is just eats up like 5 - 10 MB of memory per second...
world
    fps = 30
    view = "31x23"
    turf = /turf/grass
mob
    icon = 'mob.dmi'
turf
    icon = 'turf.dmi'
    grass
        icon_state = "grass"
        
mob
    verb
        test()
            //var/icon/i = icon('fog.gif')
            var/obj/o = new
            o.screen_loc = "1,1"
            o.icon = icon('fog.gif')
            src.client.screen += o
            spawn while(src)
                sleep(1)
                var/icon/i = icon(o.icon)
                i.Shift(NORTHWEST,4,1)
                o.icon = i


I'm looking for a memory efficient way to do this?
Jan 15 2012, 5:37 am
Figured it out (sort of).

If you're curious, this is how you would do it...

mob
    verb
        testfog()
            var/obj/o = new
            o.screen_loc = "1,1"
            src.client.screen += o
            var/image/i = image('fog.gif',o)
            i.icon += rgb(0,0,0,100)
            var/image/ii = image('fog.gif',o)
            ii.icon += rgb(0,0,0,100)
            ii.pixel_x = 480
            
            src << i
            src << ii
            
            spawn while(src)
                sleep(1)
                i.pixel_x -= 1
                ii.pixel_x -= 1
                if(ii.pixel_x <= 0)
                    i.pixel_x = 0
                    ii.pixel_x = 480


although i am not sure why byond uses 11 mb to load this 22 kb image... it works
Jan 15 2012, 2:23 pm
In response to FIREking
Mostly because of the amount of icon operation and configuration you are making BYOND run.

BYOND can't seem to handle a lot of icon alterations via run-time quite successfully.
Jan 15 2012, 4:41 pm
In response to Mr. Robert
Yeah, I found out its actually making a cache file every time you do something = icon

I hope they give us some non-cache image operations at some point.