Trying to make a chameleon tongue for comms agents
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:26 am
Comms agents can't impersonate crewmembers with high volume, alternative speech verbs, speech patterns or alternative fonts. The first is easily fixed, the second three not so much. Because speech verbs, speech spans (fonts) and speech patterns are handled by tongues, I thought the best way of solving the problem might be creating a chameleon variant of the tongue.
I came up with this:
L304 tongue.dm
It compiles, doesn't runtime, changes say_mod properly and changes the span from robotic (the parent's type) to normal, but it doesn't change it to the correct span for the tongues that need it.
I've been trying to get this working for ages. If someone can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I came up with this:
L304 tongue.dm
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/obj/item/organ/tongue/robot/omni
name = "omnitongue"
var/datum/action/item_action/chameleon/change/tongue/chameleon_action
/obj/item/organ/tongue/robot/omni/Initialize()
. = ..()
chameleon_action = new(src)
chameleon_action.chameleon_type = /obj/item/organ/tongue
chameleon_action.chameleon_name = "Tongue"
chameleon_action.initialize_disguises()
/datum/action/item_action/chameleon/change/tongue/update_item(obj/item/picked_item)
var/obj/item/organ/tongue/picked_tongue = picked_item
var/obj/item/organ/tongue/T = target
T.name = initial(picked_tongue.name)
T.desc = initial(picked_tongue.desc)
T.icon = initial(picked_tongue.icon)
T.icon_state = initial(picked_tongue.icon_state)
T.say_mod = initial(picked_tongue.say_mod)
T.modifies_speech = initial(picked_tongue.modifies_speech)
var/mob/living/carbon/M = owner
if(T.say_mod && M.dna && M.dna.species)
M.dna.species.say_mod = T.say_mod
if(T.modifies_speech)
picked_tongue.RegisterSignal(M, COMSIG_MOB_SAY, /obj/item/organ/tongue/.proc/handle_speech)
M.UnregisterSignal(M, COMSIG_MOB_SAY)I've been trying to get this working for ages. If someone can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.