2026-09-17 15:24:19
Anonymous:
Item pictures are made to the item's shape (owner: the sprites did not fit their tiles)
hold the flood/the pack.md ..
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- A small picture of the pack on the HUD whose squares flash as items activate, with a note when the pack is strapped shut.
- Old saves are converted: carried things are laid into the new pack and the player is told.
- A picture on every item (owner, 2026-09-17: "look for free icons for the items"). The eleven pictures come from game-icons.net under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence, which is free to use and asks that the artists be credited: Lorc, Delapouite and Caro Asercion. The credits file sits beside the pictures in the project, and the game's credits must name them when it has a credits screen.
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- **A picture is made to its item's shape** (owner, 2026-09-17: the Oxygen Tank and the Service Gun "don't use their sprite correctly with their tiles. it makes it look awkward"). A square icon shown at one square's size never matched a three-wide tank or an L-shaped gun. Rule: every item's picture is a canvas exactly as wide and as tall as the item's squares, the drawing lies only on squares the item has, the pack stretches it over those squares and turns it with the item. The tank is one scuba tank with its valve laid along the three squares; the gun is the ray gun drawn across the whole L with its grip in the square under the barrel; the isolation bridge is a resistor with wires out to both ends of its bar. Still only centred in their largest plain block, to be made to shape when they matter: Pulse Projector, Barrier Plate, Navigation coupler. The build script in the project (tools/item-art) refuses a picture that lies on a square the item does not have.
Not built yet: frames and pouches found in the station, home projects, the alien carrying rail, and item cards for the later parts.
