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HFBlade left hand left facing sprite is offset when wielded

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#92,912 opened on Sep 8, 2025

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Description

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Issue Summary:

When you hold the wizard High Frequency Blade in your left hand(only) and face left(only) and use in hand to wield, the sprite moves one pixel to the left when switching to the animated sprite. Unwielded:

Wielded:

You can see the tip of the blade reaches slightly farther, to the edge of the tile, and also that the handle clips into the hand of the wielder.

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Reproduction Steps:

spawn obj/item/highfrequencyblade grab in left hand, face left, activate

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Research direction
Locate the sprite definition for the High Frequency Blade and adjust the pixel x offset for the left hand, left facing wielded state by 1 pixel.
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Domain
desktop
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Bug
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1
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Under 1 hour
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Clear
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