Moving an invisible character and Speech Portrait positions **SOLVED**

[Knox]

Hi guys,

Ive got a character that is never visible on screen but visible for dialogs (a 911 dispatcher). When the player uses the radio, I placed this at the top of the "send" button's script:

Code: ags

 
  int iPlayerX = player.x;
  if (iPlayerX >= 512) //player is to the right
  {
    cDispatcherA.Move(0, -100); //move DispatcherA to the left
  }
  else if (iPlayerX < 512) //player is to the left
  {
    cDispatcherA.Move(1000, -100); //move DispatcherA to the right    
  }

I figured that by moving the dispatcher character the opposite side of the main player, when they engage in a conversation the portraits speech views would be also opposite each other...however, surprisingly regardless of my above code, the dispatcher's speech portrait is always on  the left, no matter what.

I placed the dispatcher's starting room to "none" and have this code in "on_event" to automatically place the dispatcher character into the room that is being loaded:

Code: ags

void on_event (EventType event, int data)
{
  if ((event == eEventEnterRoomBeforeFadein) && ((data != 0) || (data != 7))) 
  {
    cDispatcherA.ChangeRoom(data, -100, -100);
  } 
}

Sierra-Style portrait location is set to "BasedOnCharacterPosition" in General Settings.

Any ideas why I cant seem to make the dispatcher's speech portrait to display opposite of the player's speech portrait?

[Ryan Timothy B]

If I were to guess, I'd say it's because you're using "move" when the character isn't on walkable areas.  Is there a reason you're not just changing it's X coords? 

Code: ags

cDispatcherA.x=1000;

[Knox]

Hmm, I thought I "had" to use the move function...ok, much better to do it this way! You're right, using the move function I had to make sure the player is on a walkable area.

[Ryan Timothy B]

So did that solve your issue?

And yeah, I know what that's like.  Things I would normally think were easy with CSS for webpages are driving me insane today!

[Calin Leafshade]

i suggest a useful extender function from a particular module...

although I shall rewrite a similar one here,

Code: ags

function SetPos(this Character*, int x, int y){
  
  this.x = x;
  this.y = y;
  
}

usage: 

cEgo.SetPos(100,100);

[Knox]

Oh nice!

Thanks guys...solves it quite beautifully