Hide Player Character (off)

[The Subliminal Messenger]

Is there any way to turn "Hide Player Character" off in a room, during the game?

Thanks.

[Scummbuddy]

in the editor, go to the room editor selection tier on the left. then go pick the room you want to edit. once youve done that, you have the 3 tiers below room editor: settings, areas, objects.  click on the settings tier.  then over in the right window, there are a couple (probably 3) checkboxes under the open and save buttons. the third one down is the "hide player character" in current room check box.

[The Subliminal Messenger]

No, I meant, if I tick the box in the editor but I want the option to become unselected at some point in the game, can I do this in the script?

[Squinky]

You might try

character[EGO].room=x;

x being your current room, don't know if this would work though....

[Gilbert]

No, I meant, if I tick the box in the editor but I want the option to become unselected at some point in the game, can I do this in the script?

If your character never appears in that one room, just do as Scummbuddy mentioned, otherwise, try this "undocumented" method:

character[EGO].on=0;

not gauranteed to work.

[Phemar]

I say create a sprite that's totally invisible and create it into a view. Under Player Enters screen (before fadein)

Code: ags

SetCharacterView (EGO, x);

x being the view number. Then when you want him to reappear, use

Code: ags

ReleaseCharacterView (EGO);

This will restore the charcaters view to it's default.

Hope it helps!

.:Zor:.

[Kweepa]

How about don't tick the box, but use
character[EGO].x = -100;
at the start of the room, and
character[EGO].x = some onscreen value;
when you want EGO to appear?

[nims]

Hi,

This is an old topic, but I have found that using the following also works:

Code: ags

  player.Transparency=100;

Making it visible can then be done via:

Code: ags

  player.Transparency=0;

I am using this for a player to get into a car, and it then makes the car move.