Tools/Devices: In-hand Sprites

[onesch]

About the PR

Adds in-hand sprites to the floodlight, gas-analyzer, gps, mass-scanner, scissors and spray-painter. Based #33386
[updated: 02.01.2025]

Why / Balance

Currently it has no in-hands, so this is adding one.

Technical details

slightly changed .yml and meta.json

Media

Requirements

• I have read and am following the Pull Request and Changelog Guidelines.
• I have added media to this PR or it does not require an ingame showcase.

Breaking changes

Changelog

🆑 onesch

• add: Added handheld sprites to some items

[github-actions]

RSI Diff Bot; head commit 5bda80d merging into a033abb
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/Objects/Devices/gps.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added

Resources/Textures/Objects/Misc/Lights/lights.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
floodlight-broken-inhand-left			Added
floodlight-broken-inhand-right			Added
off-inhand-left			Added
off-inhand-right			Added
on-inhand-left			Added
on-inhand-right			Added

Resources/Textures/Objects/Specific/Atmos/gasanalyzer.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added

Resources/Textures/Objects/Tools/handheld_mass_scanner.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added

Resources/Textures/Objects/Tools/scissors.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added

Resources/Textures/Objects/Tools/spray_painter.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added

Edit: diff updated after 5bda80d

[lzk228]

there is no need for that big cl
you can collapse it to just "Added handheld sprites to some items"

[TiniestShark]

My only issues are with the handheld mass scanner and gas analyzer personally. They feel too small compared to the other tools.

[onesch]

My only issues are with the handheld mass scanner and gas analyzer personally. They feel too small compared to the other tools.

Are you saying that it's possible to make even smaller sprites for them?

[TiniestShark]

Are you saying that it's possible to make even smaller sprites for them?

Nah I mean the gas analyzer and handheld mass scanner should feel bigger than the sprites currently portray them. I did a similar thing with the first version of my anomaly scanner and after comparisons the bigger size fits it much better.

[onesch]

Nah I mean the gas analyzer and handheld mass scanner should feel bigger than the sprites currently portray them. I did a similar thing with the first version of my anomaly scanner and after comparisons the bigger size fits it much better.

will you show me?

[TiniestShark]

will you show me?

Sure! I did a very similar build for my first anom scanner inhand

It's kind of needlessly small in hindsight compared to the actual look of the device's icon. The purple screen on my sprite is too boxy compared to the rectangular portion, the satellite dish is only a single sprite, and the smaller profile makes it harder to read as the anomaly scanner, it ends up looking closer to the Emag or something. I was worried that going bigger would look worse than too small but.

The new one is based off the health analyzer from TG which is roughly the same size on the inhand and icon. The bigger size allows for just enough detail to evoke the icon far better, giving the screen more space, so it has a much more natural looking coloration, adding just two extra pixels to make the dish look look more like...well, an actual dish, and reducing the size of the purple grip a bit since it would be the part being held anyway.

So long as the sprites dont go over each other if you're holding them in both hands, it's perfectly fine to go bigger with the inhands so they can better emulate the icon (plus some stuff like the Gas Analyzer has a larger icon so one would expect the inhand to be bigger as well). Better to overshoot and make it too big than cut it short imo (i say despite forgetting that exact thing), ends up being an easier problem to fix as well.

[onesch]

@TiniestShark
what about gas analyzer and mass scanner? how can it be made bigger¿
maybe you have ready sprites of them?

[TiniestShark]

@TiniestShark what about gas analyzer and mass scanner? how can it be made bigger¿ maybe you have ready sprites of them?

Let me take a crack at an example, I'll get something soon.

[TiniestShark]

@TiniestShark what about gas analyzer and mass scanner? how can it be made bigger¿ maybe you have ready sprites of them?

Admittedly my sprite/art capabilities are still pretty wanting but a rough mockup like this i think kind of shows the direction to go for.

[onesch]

Admittedly my sprite/art capabilities are still pretty wanting but a rough mockup like this i think kind of shows the direction to go for.

I tried to do something similar but decided to keep the current version based on the style of other sprites in the game.

your example looks good, I liked the one at the top left, but if you compare the "sizes" of this sprite, isn't it similar to the size of the character's head?

[TiniestShark]

your example looks good, I liked the one at the top left, but if you compare the "sizes" of this sprite, isn't it similar to the size of the character's head?

Similar yes, but a lot of the sprites in the game operate on some level of scale dissociation. The gas analyzer in particular has a pretty big icon and I feel should at least look a bit bigger in hand with the amount of information it needs to convey on the screen as well (especially when compared to something like the multitool).

[onesch]

Similar yes, but a lot of the sprites in the game operate on some level of scale dissociation. The gas analyzer in particular has a pretty big icon and I feel should at least look a bit bigger in hand with the amount of information it needs to convey on the screen as well (especially when compared to something like the multitool).

let's ask the design leader what's best

[TiniestShark]

Forgot to chime in after the @ you sent me, spray painter looks good! I also like the update to the mass scanner, very nice.

[onesch]

Forgot to chime in after the @ you sent me, spray painter looks good! I also like the update to the mass scanner, very nice.

I'm interested in your opinion, which one is better?

[TiniestShark]

I'm interested in your opinion, which one is better?

I'd say the first one personally. The longer one looks much closer to the base sprite, and I think you did a good job conveying its features.

[onesch]

my pull request was abandoned?

[TiniestShark]

my pull request was abandoned?

nah, inhands are just a minor priority right now and there's like, almost 700 pull requests that the maintainers are evaluating and discussing at any given time. Long as it's open it'll get evaluated at some point, just might take a while is all.