dithering/icon change

ID:262535
 
Jul 31 2005, 10:04 am
Code:
mob
    var
        user.dither
        Dithered = "0"

mob
    Person
        icon = 'Person.dmi'
        icon_state = "Normal"
    var
        icon
            OrigIcon //Can't set it's value here.  You have to wait until runtime, when players get their icons.
        OrigState = "Normal" //The icon_state can be stored in var/icon/OrigIcon, but we need 2 vars so we can manipulate them seperately.
    New()
        OrigIcon = new(icon) //Keeping track of the original icon.
    verb
        Say(msg as text) //Just in case you decide to show this to your friends...
            world << "[usr]:  [msg]"
            world << "\icon [OrigIcon]"
        Dither()
        //You COULD put usr.icon = usr.OrigIcon here, but then it'd have a few seconds of 0 dither while they choose a new dither.
         switch(input(src,"How much dither do you want?","Dither") in list("0","25","50","75")) //Look up switch, if you don't know what it is.  Pretty useful.
                if("0")
                    icon = OrigIcon
                    icon_state = usr.icon_state //Set it back to the original icon.
                set 1 = "Dithered"
                if("25")
                set user.dither "1"
                    icon = usr.icon
                    icon_state = usr.icon_state //We don't want the dithers to overlap, do we?
                    icon += 'Dither25.dmi' //And set the usr's icon.
                if("50")
                set user.dither "2"
                    icon = usr.icon
                    icon_state = usr.icon_state
                    icon += 'Dither50.dmi'
                if("75")
                set user.dither "3"
                    icon = usr.icon
                    icon_state = usr.icon_state
                    icon += 'Dither75.dmi'

            icon_state = "icon_state"
            OrigState = icon_state //Set it so that the new icon_state saves.
mob/verb
    Custom_Icon(icon as icon)
        set category = "Customize"
        var/icon/I = new(icon)
        var/list/L = list()
        L += I.IconStates()
        L += "Blank"
        usr.the_states = L
        usr.icon = icon
            usr.icon_state = O

    var/dithered = ("")
        if(dithered == "1")
            icon += 'Dither25.dmi' //And set the usr's icon.
        if(dithered == "2")
            icon += 'Dither50.dmi' //And set the usr's icon.
        if(dithered == "")
            icon += 'Dither75.dmi' //And set the usr's icon.
        if(dithered == "0")
            return


Problem description:ok dithering did work but i for got to save and i messed it up and when i change icon it dosent set dithering back to what it was. im very new to this so any help would be appreciated

Jul 31 2005, 10:07 am
Just out of curiousity, is that ShadowDarke's demo? I think I've downloaded it before

Hiead
Jul 31 2005, 10:09 am
In response to Hiead
no this is garthors demo this is my first time trying to edit byond code so im lost i just tryed to mimick it best as i could

Jul 31 2005, 10:12 am (Edited on Jul 31 2005, 10:41 am)
In response to Insomniak 420
Oh, well I think those demos are a bit complicated for a beginner. I'd recommend starting with
Your First World

and

Step BYOND

Those are the two I used to get started.

Hiead
Jul 31 2005, 10:40 am
In response to Insomniak 420
You're not meant to be copying demos, only libraries are to be implemented.
Jul 31 2005, 10:42 am
I don't understand what your problem is but it seems like:

You dithered, you changed icon and then found that the dither disappeared.

If so then you need to re-dither. In order to know how much was dithered beforehand, you need to set a dither variable which'll be altered in the dither verb and referred to when changing the icon.