modular_aphelion/modules/character_preview/code/drawing.dm 
| CHARACTER_PREVIEW_DIR | Where iconforge writes a preview drawing. It is read back and deleted at once, and tmp/ is cleared every round. |
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| CHARACTER_PREVIEW_SETTLE | After an answer, how long requests wait to be folded into one, and how quiet a burst of them must go first. |
| CHARACTER_PREVIEW_MAX_WAIT | The longest a request waits while more keep coming. |
| CHARACTER_PREVIEW_CLEANUP_EVERY | How many looks' worth of images iconforge draws before it is told to let go of what it keeps from drawing them. |
| CHARACTER_PREVIEW_JOB_TIMEOUT | A drawing under way longer than this is given up on, by the proc waiting on it and everything else. They take milliseconds. |
| /datum/preference_middleware/character_preview | The character preview every tab of character setup shows: the preview mob, facing each way, drawn into one image and sent in the window's data. Height and body size, which a flatten leaves out, go with it for the page to draw, as the game draws them. |
| /proc/iconforge_drawn | A drawing is done: a character preview's, or share of one for a smaller picture, like the custom sprite editors'.
iconforge keeps every image it makes until it is told to let them go, and a look is hardly ever drawn twice, so what
it keeps only grows, by 80 to 330 KB a look. Every CHARACTER_PREVIEW_CLEANUP_EVERY looks' worth it lets go, once no
character preview is under way: one under way would come out empty. Until then new previews wait, for a tick or
two, and the last preview under way lets go when it is done. Spritesheets being made let go themselves once they
are done, so it waits for them to finish. |
| /proc/character_preview_drawing_under_way | Whether iconforge is drawing a character preview now, which letting go of what it keeps would spoil. tg's asset loader asks too, as it lets go on every fire once its queue has emptied. A drawing whose proc was killed stops counting after CHARACTER_PREVIEW_JOB_TIMEOUT. |
| /proc/character_preview_walk | A look's facings as iconforge recipes, on one canvas that grows to fit parts that reach past the mob's tile, like big ears and wings: list("recipes" = facing -> recipe, "height" = canvas rows, "x" and "y" = how far the canvas reaches left of and below the tile). |
| /proc/character_preview_flat_box | A flat icon's canvas, list(x1, y1, width, height): where its lower left pixel sits, counted from the flattened look's own (1, 1), and its size. A grown canvas says so itself; any other is its icon's, at (1, 1). |
| /proc/character_preview_turns_itself | Whether something redraws a mob when it turns, so each facing of it has to be walked on its own. |
Define Details
CHARACTER_PREVIEW_CLEANUP_EVERY
How many looks' worth of images iconforge draws before it is told to let go of what it keeps from drawing them.
CHARACTER_PREVIEW_DIR
Where iconforge writes a preview drawing. It is read back and deleted at once, and tmp/ is cleared every round.
CHARACTER_PREVIEW_JOB_TIMEOUT
A drawing under way longer than this is given up on, by the proc waiting on it and everything else. They take milliseconds.
CHARACTER_PREVIEW_MAX_WAIT
The longest a request waits while more keep coming.
CHARACTER_PREVIEW_SETTLE
After an answer, how long requests wait to be folded into one, and how quiet a burst of them must go first.