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Paradise/code/datums/mutable_appearance.dm
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// Mutable appearances are an inbuilt byond datastructure. Read the documentation on them by hitting F1 in DM.
// Basically use them instead of images for overlays/underlays and when changing an object's appearance if you're doing so with any regularity.
// Unless you need the overlay/underlay to have a different direction than the base object. Then you have to use an image due to a bug.
// Mutable appearances erase template vars on new, because they accept an appearance to copy as an arg
// If we have nothin to copy, we set the float plane
/mutable_appearance/New(mutable_appearance/to_copy)
..()
if(!to_copy)
plane = FLOAT_PLANE
// Helper similar to image()
/proc/mutable_appearance(icon, icon_state = "", layer = FLOAT_LAYER, plane = FLOAT_PLANE, alpha = 255, appearance_flags = NONE, color)
var/mutable_appearance/MA = new()
MA.icon = icon
MA.icon_state = icon_state
MA.layer = layer
MA.plane = plane
MA.alpha = alpha
MA.appearance_flags |= appearance_flags
if(color)
MA.color = color
return MA
/mutable_appearance/clean/New()
. = ..()
alpha = 255
transform = null