Request for Attribute Element in Overlays

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Prophet
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I have begun creating/modifying overlays, as I know others have, and I anticipate them becoming one of the more prevalent types of mods.
As such, to avoid conflicts and improve functionality I think an Attributes element could solve some forseeable problems.

ObjGetOverlays seems to return a list but I am unsure what the list elements are.. eg (444 439 435)? (This is the same overlay 3 times on the player.)

Future concerns:
Being able to determine the unid of active overlays
Being able to remove a specific overlay in script outside of the originating overlay

These are what I have come across so far but I assume more will crop up.
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Prophet wrote:ObjGetOverlays seems to return a list but I am unsure what the list elements are.. eg (444 439 435)? (This is the same overlay 3 times on the player.)
I would think that is a list of overlayID's, which can be used together with (objRemoveOverlay obj overlayID) to remove id's or any of the other overlay functions to manipulate them.
Prophet wrote:Being able to determine the unid of active overlays
I second that.

I have had a few problems with image overlays and artifacts, but have not experimented enough to know if the images were just bad.
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