Show Room Objects ...

[Darth Mandarb]

I have a suggestion for a new feature.

When in the Areas section of the Room Editor I would like an option to 'Show All Objects' which are currently in that room.

I don't know about others, but I need to sometimes make my Areas (all types) around an object but you can't see the objects when in the Areas mode.

Example:  I have an object in the room that you can't walk through, so the Walkable Area needs to have a hole in it where that object is.  But I can't see the object while working with the Walkable Areas.  So if I could just check to view objects it would make this easier!

The work-around I do now is to go into photoshop and just add the object into the background image, put it as the background in AGS, work the area the way I need it, place the object, then restore the old background image.

This is very effective, but it might be easier to just have a 'Show Objects' option.

Just a thought!!

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[Alynn]

Well, this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but if your graphic editing software supports layers, for each object in the room, put it its seperate layer, this does a couple things, one you can make easy area masks because you know where everything is. To save just the background you can turn all the layers for objects then save the file as (Your favorite file type here)(At least that works with Graphics Gale) Be sure you have a second file that supports the layer data.

Then later for the objects themselves you just copy from the file with the layerdata and paste in a new file.

Hope that made sense... its 730 in the morning here, and I am out of coffee...

[Pumaman]

Sounds like a reasonable enough suggestion, I'll add it to my list.