PLEASE HELP AND U WILL GET CREDIT!

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Jun 30 2009, 12:40 pm (Edited on Jul 2 2009, 4:36 am)
this may make me sound like a complete idiot but i really need to know how to do this and ive already looked through all DM guide and it showed up once and it didnt tell me how to use it. So please,

Can someone tell me how to use icon_state?

btw DONT link me to an article, just plz tell me straight up.

thnx,
~Brizzel987, leader of the Game Builders Design Team

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Jun 30 2009, 12:42 pm
Straight up: use it like you would a variable, because it is one.
Jun 30 2009, 2:15 pm
In response to Kaiochao
<code> turf/floor icon = 'icon.dm' icon_state = "Iconstate3" </code>
Jun 30 2009, 4:45 pm
what icon_state is... well it lets you pick a seprate icon, within the icon file like for example, you make a new icon file, you name it "pie", now you can make icons within the file and give them names, now we will have two icons within that one file we will name the first one "pie1" and we will name the second one "pie2", which denotes two seprate icons within the whole icon file, now to pick and choose which one all you have to do is the icon_state now this is what the code would look like

mob
     icon = 'pie.dmi' // tells it which icon file to choose from
     icon_state="pie1" // tells it which icon within the icon file that it is


i tried to be as clear as possible that i could, i hope that i have helped
Jun 30 2009, 6:26 pm
In response to Xxdragonslxx
Icon_state allows you to use icons within an icon. you simply have to do this.

mob
   icon='whatever.dmi'
   icon_state="whatever"


if you have only two icon_states in your dmi file. You can simply use flick which changes it to the other icon_state.
Jun 30 2009, 7:58 pm
In response to Xxdragonslxx
your problem is probably in the qoutations.


icon = 'icon.dmi' <--- notice the 's
icon_state = "blah"<----- notice the "s

make sure caps and what not are teh same.
Jul 1 2009, 5:41 am
In response to Janosalderan69
oh my god yes! my problem WAS in the quotations! THANK YOU EVERYBODY! and like i promised u will get credit