So, you want to make multi-tiled mobs in BYOND, eh? I'll assume that you've learned thebasics. After you've done that, continue with this tutorial.
This tutorial is designed to teach you how to make mobs have multiple tiles. If
you have any comments, please e-mail me at vortezz@eskimobob.com. Let's get
started.
For example's sake, in this tutorial I will use the bottom tile as a body, and the top tile as the head of a human.
Start up a new environment, or open
your existing environment. If you've already got the icons made and lined up,
you can skip by this part. For this tutorial, I'm going to only have one
direction you can face. Of course, you can have multiple directions if you'd
like.
First, make a body icon. It should look something like this.
Then, make a head icon (these can be in one icon, but for the example I made
them as different icons) Make sure the head is at the lowest possible point.
Use the down arrow to move the head down. You should also make sure that the
head and the body will line up at the neck. My head looks like this.
Note that it's as far down as possible, and I've pre-aligned it with the body.
Lastly, for testing purposes, make a grass turf (void this if you've already
got turfs) with flooded green. Now, we should have all the icons drawn.
So, we've got all the icons set up, right? I'll assume so, as I can't really ask you right now. Okay, so now, we're going to make the head object. We're not going to declare an icon for it, yet... I'll explain that later.
obj/head
density = 0 //we can walk
through the head.. we're looking at a diablo-style layout here
layer = 5 //the head will
appear above everything else
There. We've made the head obj, but now we've got to make it work for
something. We're going to give every mob a obj/head/top var, to refer to the top
of the mob (in this case, the head). While we're at it, we may as well create a
movetimer var,
used to control the player's walking speeds.
mob
var
obj/head/top //top (head) of the mob
movetimer // used to limit how quickly
the player walks
Now that we've got that all settled, and the top is always referred to as the
path /obj/head,
then we should be set. Now, we’re going to override the
<code>mob/Move()</code> proc to take the head into account.. Here’s
what we’ll have after that.
mob
var
obj/head/top //top (head) of the mob
movetimer // used to limit how quickly
the player walks
Move(loc)
if(world.time < movetimer) return
movetimer += 5 //short for movetimer = movetimer + 5
..() //carry on regularly
var/turf/T = locate(src.x,src.y +
1,src.z) //store the turf above the mob
as a var
if(T)
//if the turf exists
top.loc = T //then make the moving mob’s top’s loc
the turf above it.
else //if the turf doesn’t exist
top.loc = null //don’t make the moving mob’s top’s loc
anything
There! Now, whenever a mob moves, it places the top (head) above it! Now, to finish up the whole thing, and when a new mob is created, make a new top. In the next section, I’ll finish it up.
Alrighty then. Now that we do the
necessary Move() checking, it's now time to finish up the project. We need to
make a new top(head) whenever a new mob is created. We accomplish this with the
following code:
mob
New()
..() //do the regular
New() behavior
top = new() //make the new
top
Finally, here is how you would declare the mobs:
mob
Samuel
icon = 'body.dmi'
top.icon = 'head.dmi'
NOTE: THIS LAST BIT OF CODE'S SPACING IS ODD. DON'T
MIND IT. PLEASE, IF YOU KNOW HOW, SEND A FIX TO THE E-MAIL ABOVE/BELOW. THANKS!
If you made multiple different mob icons, bodies and heads, you could just
change the icon and top.icon. The end result should look something like this.
There! Now, we have successfully created multi-tiled mobs. If you would like
to contact me, please do so in the following ways:
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Thanks for reading! The following is the COMPLETE code used in this tutorial.
obj/head
density = 0
layer = 5
mob
var
obj/head/top
// this is the top of the mob
movetimer
// used to limit how quickly the player walks
Move(Loc)
//
delay movement
if(world.time
< movetimer) return
movetimer
= world.time + 5
..()
var/turf/T
= locate(x,y + 1,z)
if(T)
top.loc
= T
else
top.loc
= null
New(Loc)
..()
top
= new()
joe
icon
= 'body.dmi'
New()
..()
top.icon
= 'head.dmi'