## About The Pull Request
This PR adds an element, for now added to water turfs, that gives
passing movables an overlay to make them look immersed in that turf.
You can definitely see in the code what sort of stupid stuff I've had to
do to work around some of the flaws with the inbuilt features. Why?
Because I needed a (vis_contents) overlay that:
- can cover the entire width of the movable it's added to, whether it
has a 32 px icon, 64, 96 etc, plus some to be safe.
- doesn't look misplaced around movables with an icon larger than 32 px.
- can be animated, so it doesn't rotate or scale (or rather, do so but
in the opposite direction) with living mobs when resized, spinning or
lying down or standing up, despite the KEEP_TOGETHER appearance flag,
which ignores whether the overlay has the RESET_TRANSFORM flag.
- looks inset in the movable and doesn't spill into other movables of
the same plane (that's what happened with normal inset overlays without
the KEEP_TOGETHER flag)
- doesn't render above other movables covering the owner of the overlay.
If someone comes with a better and tested solution, go and tell I guess.
How visuals are handled by this engine still eludes me at times, but I
doubt planes would be a better solution to this.
The rest of the PR includes checks to make sure the overlay isn't added
to movables with planes lower/higher than
FLOOR_PLANE/ABOVE_ALL_MOB_PLANE, that are flying or being thrown, as
well as certain types such as effects.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Adding some literal immersion to the game, since movables and mobs look
like they're treading on water like Jesus right now. You can see a
couple screenshots by scrolling down a little.
## Changelog
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image: walking on water will now immerse you in it... visually, at
least.
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Loosely adapted from /vg/. This is an entity component system for adding behaviours to datums when inheritance doesn't quite cut it. By using signals and events instead of direct inheritance, you can inject behaviours without hacky overloads. It requires a different method of thinking, but is not hard to use correctly. If a behaviour can have application across more than one thing. Make it generic, make it a component. Atom/mob/obj event? Give it a signal, and forward it's arguments with a SendSignal() call. Now every component that want's to can also know about this happening.
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