Image Visibility

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Oct 16 2016, 6:45 pm
(See the best response by Ter13.)
Is it possible to make an image visible to all players without calling on it more then once?

This is the only thing I can think of and I'm pretty darn sure it will only output to the players currently online. I was having difficulties with removing some overlays but I know images are just amazing these days and so I am trying to make some particular overlays handled through the image system.

Thanks in advance guys =)
var/whatever = image(icon='whatever.dmi',src)
players << whatever
Oct 16 2016, 8:57 pm
Best response
Sort of.

Basically, you can operate on a list using <<. However, this is engine shorthand for looping through every object on the list and showing it to them all at once. It'll be slightly faster than doing it yourself.

var
    list/global_images = list()
    list/clients = list()
    list/players = list()

mob
    Login()
        players += src
        ..()
    Logout()
        players -= src
        ..()

client
    New()
        . = ..()
        if(.)
            clients += src
            images += global_images
    Del()
        clients -= src
        images.len = 0
        ..()

global_image
    parent_type = /image
    proc
        Destroy()
            global_images -= src
            for(var/client/c in clients)
                c.images -= src
    New()
        global_images += src
        clients << src
        ..()

    Del()
        Destroy()
        ..()
Oct 17 2016, 1:11 pm
This is freaking perfect; Thanks buddy.
Oct 21 2016, 11:31 pm
In response to Ter13
this is genius!