Non-sprite dependant interaction

[Sarah_U.]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
Basically, allow for clicks to interact with the entire container that the objects are within instead of the objects themselves for interaction
E.G: Crowbars being hard to click, now becomes selected if you click the square where they are in your inventory.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
It will make ALL SMALL OBJECTS or THIN OBJECTS much easier to click, while keeping ground items hard to click.
QoL improvement that would make the game faster, better and more enjoyable both to pick-up and to play.
This has been somewhat needed see'ing the current game mechanics and speed.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
The change is only for items on the UI of the player, but not for items in the environment.
Exemple at the first section depicts the mechanic.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):
[N/A]

[TopHatPenguin]

This would be a rather nice QoL change as well as making players more likely to use alt click. +1

[BobaFett07]

yeah that would be really usefull sometimes +1

[MrJJJ]

I can see a problem if there is multiple items on the ground...

[TopHatPenguin]

I can see a problem if there is multiple items on the ground...

Alt click the tile or right click.

[MrJJJ]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
Basically, allow for clicks to interact with the entire container that the objects are within instead of the objects themselves for interaction
E.G: Crowbars being hard to click, now becomes selected if you click the square where they are in your inventory.

Alt click the tile or right click.

It seems like i misread the suggestion, since i was just reading through it quickly, i see what it means now, +1, always found it annoying that i just missed a item i was trying to click by a pixel and it didin't went to my hand.

[BobaFett07]

It seems like i misread the suggestion, since i was just reading through it quickly, i see what it means now, +1, always found it annoying that i just missed a item i was trying to click by a pixel and it didin't went to my hand.

yeah I had the same mistake while reading it

[apophis775]

That's a Byond thing, because click detection is based on the sprite.

Not sure what could really be done.

[Snypehunter007]

This seems like it isn't possible.

Asking this to be locked.

[Sarah_U.]

It's actually feasible now that I've double-checked.

Catch on square area;
Catch on entire icon area, transparent parts are contained in icon as highly alpha'd elements.
Add background to the backpack or icons to either track item or backpack slot, etc.

There's a whole lot of possibilities to implement this. I'd like y'all to reconsider.

[KingKire]

I would also like to pop behind this as well, at least to keep it in the backburner of things that would be nice to add on at a later date if possible. I think it would be a great step towards making CM a ss13 leader in code development, but it would be understandable to keep it reserve due to other pressing projects being at the fore-front.

[Sailor Dave]

This already exists in goonstation for containers, backpacks and all that. Possibly even the UI itself, I don't remember.

[Sarah_U.]

UI itself as well, yes. Either way, I double-checked and it's possible. I don't want to spend time making the code since I don't have said time myself, but it's as my last message said; Very implementable in various ways.

Only worry is performance and such. I can't back-up the effects on that.

[Spider]

They have this in TG, so much easier to click on stuff in your bag

+1

[Dapper Stache]

Nice quality of life improvement, as has been said it's doable, I'm down. +1.

[completelynewguy]

+1, I love the new looks of the sprites, but it's very difficult trying to click for a magazine while it's in a bag or a belt in the middle of combat.