/tg/Station 13

Hey, getFlatIcon is expensive and I want to stop using it. My use case is some mutable_appearances and an obj/screen that use a mob as a base, then I use icon procs on it. (which I also want to get rid of eventually but I am not able to right now) The /obj/screen doesn't use any icon procs after getFlatIcon, just the color, blend_mode, and screen_loc vars. So, I bet some new features will work well for that, but not the mutable_appearances, which all use some kind of icon proc after using getFlatIcon.
Since I made this stuff, new 512 features came out, (the /mutable_appearances used to be /images but they didn't really use dir, so that was an easy change) and I'd like to explore the potential options to replace getFlatIcon, if any exist.

getFlatIcon should only be necessary for exporting icons to HTML.

You can add the mob to the screen obj's vis_contents if you want the appearance to update continuously.

Otherwise, you can set the screen obj's .appearance to be the mob's .appearance, which will copy overlays and everything else.

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