chat assets

code/_helpers/text.dm

@@ -343,16 +343,17 @@
 //The icon var could be local in the proc, but it's a waste of resources
 //	to always create it and then throw it out.
 /var/icon/text_tag_icons = 'icons/chattags.dmi'
-/var/list/text_tag_cache = list()
+GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(text_tag_cache)
+
 /proc/create_text_tag(var/tagname, var/tagdesc = tagname, var/client/C = null)
 	if(!(C && C.prefs?.read_preference(/datum/preference/toggle/chat_tags)))
 		return tagdesc
-	if(!text_tag_cache[tagname])
-		var/icon/tag = icon(text_tag_icons, tagname)
-		text_tag_cache[tagname] = tag
+	if(!GLOB.text_tag_cache[tagname])
+		var/datum/asset/spritesheet/chatassets = get_asset_datum(/datum/asset/spritesheet/chat)
+		GLOB.text_tag_cache[tagname] = chatassets.icon_tag(tagname)
 	if(!C.tgui_panel.is_ready() || C.tgui_panel.oldchat)
 		return "<IMG src='\ref[text_tag_icons]' class='text_tag' iconstate='[tagname]'" + (tagdesc ? " alt='[tagdesc]'" : "") + ">"
-	return icon2html(text_tag_cache[tagname], C, extra_classes = "text_tag")
+	return GLOB.text_tag_cache[tagname]
 
 /proc/create_text_tag_old(var/tagname, var/tagdesc = tagname, var/client/C = null)
 	if(!(C && C.prefs?.read_preference(/datum/preference/toggle/chat_tags)))

code/controllers/subsystems/assets.dm

@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-/datum/configuration/load()
-	. = ..()
-	SSassets.OnConfigLoad()
-
 SUBSYSTEM_DEF(assets)
 	name = "Assets"
 	init_order = INIT_ORDER_ASSETS
@@ -27,6 +23,7 @@ SUBSYSTEM_DEF(assets)
 
 
 /datum/controller/subsystem/assets/Initialize()
+	OnConfigLoad()
 
 	for(var/type in typesof(/datum/asset))
 		var/datum/asset/A = type

code/modules/asset_cache/assets/chat.dm

@@ -2,5 +2,4 @@
 	name = "chat"
 
 /datum/asset/spritesheet/chat/create_spritesheets()
-	//honk
-	//This function has to be overridden otherwise it will generate runtimes
+	InsertAll("", text_tag_icons) //Chomp - OOC, LOOC ect icons