Tiny hermit crabs hidding themselves in their helmet shells

[jknpj]

Description of issue

https://webmshare.com/QYn0J

smol mommi sprites are able to hide their red rogue eyes under big hats/hemets

Difference between expected and actual behavior

Expected: A RED-EYED MOMMI AI CALL IT Actual: AHELP WTF MOMMI JUST KILLED ME FOR NO RAISINS

Steps to reproduce

As any "tiny" type of crab, grab any big hat/helmet and use the verb "Hide"

Length of time in which bug has been known to occur

God know, at least a few months

Issue bingo

Please check whatever applies. More checkboxes checked increase your chances of not being yelled at by every contributor.

• [x] Issue could be reproduced at least once
• [x] Issue could be reproduced by different players
• [x] Issue could be reproduced in multiple rounds
• [x] Issue happened in a recent (less than 7 days ago) round
• [x] Couldn't find an existing issue about this

[Probe1]

Yes, and there are MANY other helmets that murderous mommis chose for that purpose. Whether it's a good idea to allow this is worth talking.

It's not truly a bug, and it's only kind of an oversight if you fudge the meaning of oversight. It's more like no one cared.

[jknpj]

Since this got a Discussion tag, what about keeping this as a feature but only if not-emaged?

[Probe1]

I mean ideally you'd just make their eyes glow through anything in the hat slot if the eyes are red.

[9600bauds]

Borg eyes already work like that for no fucking reason, we just have to figure out how they work

[Probe1]

hahaha holy shit we're doomed

[ghost]

Alright so I know why borg eyes and MoMMI eyes work like that and I too know why MoMMI eyes don't show up as red in that screenshot

[kol1th]

The borg eyes show up above every single thing, even lighting, which is retarded. This sounds like a feature to me

[ghost]

Celt: If you hide, your red eyes are on the floar plane
Celt: if you don't
Celt: your red eyes poke out of a hat
Celt: because they're on the lighting layer
Probe1: um
Probe1: how even
Celt: Hm?
Probe1: how would you handle this
Probe1: i guess
Probe1: if emagged
Celt: Super easily
Celt: if(emagged)
Celt: shit I could tell you how to make that PR
Celt: one moment
Celt: the issue is
Celt: uh
Celt: if the MoMMI was under a table hiding
Celt: their red eyes would show through it
Probe1: yes
Probe1: exactly.
Probe1: that's why I wrote how would you handle this
Probe1: it basically ruins them hiding
Celt: Hm
Celt: got it
Celt: Have it layer above the hat if they're hiding but not above anything else
Probe1: post it in the issue so everyone knows

@kol1th The reason it layers above darkness is obvious - it's illuminated

[Ephx1]

Borg lights shut off if resting or their actuators are shot

[kol1th]

@DrCelt they also appear above chairs

[Kitfox88]

hacked mommis are so evil their piercing gaze cannot be hidden from

[jknpj]

Evil is in the eye of the beholder

[ihadtoregisterforthis]

Some MoMMI sprites have an emagged variant that changes the color of the chassis. These small ones could have one but that would mean having to sprite.