* Creating new objects is cheap, in fact comparable to the cost of getting it out of the pool, so it doesn't help there.
* Placing items in the pool is far more expensive than letting them garbage collect due to the resetting of vars and such.
So you can customize your character with tattoos or fur colors for Taj or whatever. I'll let Anewbe work out what he wants to whitelist other than what I did already.
The icons are sliced up with the HumanScissors program I wrote, so they are per-organ. So, lop off a limb, put it on someone else, they have the tattoos and whatnot. It's part of DNA so it comes with when cloning.
They are defined in the normal sprite_accessories file and the icons are all in markings.dm in the format of "markingname-organtag" so if you have a marking that spans both arms and torso you need "thatone-torso", "thatone-l_arm", "thatone-r_arm" icon states.
* Compound icon generator proc
Why didn't this exist before? Am I missing something? I need manipulatable icons of existing atoms including their overlays. Is there some easier way to get them than this...?
* Polaris Portion of AI Upgrade
Somewhere on the station, a gas canister is faulty and ruptures, releasing its contents (no explosion).
* Added as an event_manger event. This version is nice on low severity and picks a canister with nobody nearby.
* Also added as a gamemaster event.
* Added helper method to check area occupancy.
* That if statement wasn't heping anyone as it was.
* Strangely however, even an `if(using_map)` doesn't help, as using_map is in some crazy BYOND limbo state at that point in world init. but checking istype() succeeds in figuring out its not real.
Links many map-specific details such as the station name, z-level information, and allowed jobs from global vars to map datum vars, which should help us maintain multiple maps at once in the future, which will be needed for the future Southern Cross.
Note that a config change will be needed to change GENERATE_ASTEROID to GENERATE_MAP, otherwise no changes should be required to continue normal map usage.
To change to a different map, it's suggested to tick the file that ticks all the other needed files, which for the Northern Star is called northern_star.dm.
Makes the name of the starsystem and station generic such that it can be modified in global.dm and replace the strings where it is used. This won't have an effect on Polaris itself, but makes changing the name much more simple for forks. Using string concat constants on the advice of Psi.
* Particularly noticable on the cartridge button of the PDA, any time we transmit a name containing \improper or \proper using nanoui it shows up as ÿ
* This is becuase BYOND internally handles these escapes by simply using character 0xFF etc.
* We'd better strip them out before sending them as JSON data so they aren't rendered as ÿ when treated as utf-8 encoding.
