keycard authenticator public department access

[hacker-on-steroids]

What this does

lets the keycard swipers make departments public-access
only applies to airlocks for now, but adding windoors, blast shutter buttons, and computers(shuttles, RND, etc) to the list would be trivial
was also thinking about not using the keycard for this at all and letting the department head toggle the access on his own department without a second ID to swipe
what do (You) think? [discussion]

see also: #16760 and #33937

Why it's good

How it was tested

Changelog

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• rscadd: keycard authenticators in command offices can now make entire departments public

[SECBATON-GRIFFON]

this is similar to an idea i already have, plus it uses a system i coded, so i like

[hacker-on-steroids]

if anyone has/wants to create a gorillion extra sprites, i think public airlocks turning yellow might look alright

i've been fighting with overlays for 20 minutes in paint and i'm still not happy, perhaps @DeityLink could impart some wisdom on how to make it not look like shit

[DeityLink]

I spent a thousand years producing the moody light icons for all doors using Gimp. But the red/green door lights are unfortunately baked into their respective sprites. Tears, sweat and blood is your only path forward. I'll see if I can help somewhat when I get home.

Regardless, the proper way to go about it, rather than adding a yellow lights variant, is to add a proper white light overlay that we can then color however we want.

[DeityLink]

Alright so for this experiment I'll be using Atmospherics airlocks, and Gimp (2.10.38)

Also bear with me, you'll have to learn french before you can use this guide. Anyway luckily for us I already "extracted" the lights from doors a while ago so we have this red locked airlock light we can start from

Now unfortunately I didn't find a way to directly copy an entire color channel to paste as white, but we can work around that. simply duplicate the channel.

this creates a separate channel we can use in our next step, we'll add said new channel as a mask

now sadly again I ran into problems when trying to color the rest of the image white, fortunately we can just add a new white layer, add its alpha channel as a mask, then copy-paste the mask from one to the other.

which gives us the white light overlay we are after. We'll need the transparent version as a regular overlay, and the "black background" version for moody lights (also don't forget to turn off the original layer like I did, if you did it correctly the transparent lights image should appear all white in DM)

we can test our new moody light by naming it "door_closed-moody", which will cause any closed atmos airlock to display these moody lights.

And that's all we need to do before we can go in-game to test our handiwork. The moody light works as expected

Next we just take a random item, set its appearance to that of the atmos airlocks, remove its moody overlay, and then set its icon_state to "door_lights" which is how I called the transparent image above

Adjusting their layer so they show up above the doors, we can see it looks quite nice already

So lets just set the color of the item with the "door_lights" icon to "yellow"

I hope that's what you're looking for, here's how it looks in a few other colors

We can probably get an even better looking result if the white moody light gets colored as well. In the best of worlds, someone would take it upon themselves to convert every single airlock to use white lights as such.

But it sure as hell won't be me. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this short tutorial.

[Eneocho]

Should also apply to table doors, they're weirdly snowflaked where you can't even emag them.

[Eneocho]

Are the "Grant Emergency [dept] access" buttons department-specific? I.e: The medbay keycard scanner only has the "Grant Emergency Medbay access" button. (Naturally, both the HoP and Captain's button would have all the options).

[Eneocho]

Honestly letting the dept heads toggle access with only their access would probably be reasonable. Since it'd require an actual head (or head-level access, anyway).

[jwhitak]

The first thing the clown does after taking the all access spare:

Yeah the two swipe restriction is reasonable. Low pop usually has access given out freely already. This can help in blob, cult, etc emergency situations.

[Stryling]

Should definitely be a two card swipe, too much meme potential with only the department's head access needed. Would've also liked the route of giving heads an item that lets them control their department doors remotely

[ErrorsWindows]

Grant Emergency Security Access 🧐

[hacker-on-steroids]

what do people think about this also affecting blast door buttons, computers, windoors, lockers?
plan to have another PR making empty departments public roundstart, and letting just one ID swipe in the head office ungreytide its department

[Eneocho]

what do people think about this also affecting blast door buttons, computers, windoors, lockers? plan to have another PR making empty departments public roundstart, and letting just one ID swipe in the head office ungreytide its department

Seems reasonable, yeah.

[west3436]

@hacker-on-steroids what's the status on this one?

[hacker-on-steroids]

waiting for sprites to materialise themselves
while this is functional by itself i think it would be sorta retarded without the yellow lights

[DeityLink]

I made you a tutorial, just doeet

[west3436]

@hacker-on-steroids if you're not gonna make these sprites please close this as they won't materialize out of thin air

[braplord]

@west3436 i can make them materialize if need be, i like this feature

[west3436]

@west3436 i can make them materialize if need be, i like this feature

Nice; just check out the guide @DeityLink posted above then thanks

[hacker-on-steroids]

@braplord please tell me you've started so i can continue sitting on my ass doing nothing, otherwise i will be forced to do it

[braplord]

@braplord please tell me you've started so i can continue sitting on my ass doing nothing, otherwise i will be forced to do it

i got busy with my own pr and then i got lazy, ill get around to it this weekend