Character appearing [SOLVED]

[simulacra]

A silly question: how do I make a character appear in a certain room? I have tried editing the "start in room" setting and

character[ENGINE].room = 42;

What do I do wrong?

[TerranRich]

In ENGINE a non-player character (NPC)? If so, you have just moved him to that room. If you want to actually go there, you must call a separate player.room=... command or a NewRoom()/NewRoomEx() command. If it's the player character, it should move you along with it. Does room #42 exist? What actually happens when you test this out?

[simulacra]

ENGINE is a NPC. I put this code in the "Players enters screen (before fadein)" section. But when I go to room 42, the character didn't appear. I can only see the background.

[Gilbert]

What's the character's coordinates? He can be out of the screen. Furthermore, is it possible that he's behind a walkbehind area?

[Goot]

And make sure that 42 is correct room number.

[Radiant]

It is also possible that he is transparent (see SetCharTransparency), or has a view attached that is simply an empty image. Or has a baseline that is set wrongly.

[simulacra]

Or has a baseline that is set wrongly.

I haven't set a baseline. This is likely the problem. I'll get back to you when I have tested it. And thank you for the fast, professional responses!

[Barbarian]

Yep, and also check the co-ordinates again of where you want the character to appear and that it's on a visible spot in that room. To do it via scripting, it might look like:

character[ENGINE].room = 42;
character[ENGINE].x=(150);
character[ENGINE].y=(100);   

And I think by default, the character baseline is set at the bottom placement of the Y posistion? But you could change this as you like (as an example) with:

SetCharacterBaseline(ENGINE,100);