Hi all, hope everyone is well.
Let's say room 1 is the front porch of a house. oPizza is object ID 1. oPizza.Visible=false;
Room 2 is inside the house, and for fun let's say there's a corded landline rotary telephone. Interacting with oRotary triggers dPhone. Let's imagine dPhone looks something like this:
Phone a friend
Order a pizza
Prank call King Graham
If option 2 is selected, the pizza becomes visible in room 1
I'm checking the manual but so far I'm stumped as to how to do this with an object.
I could make a character that acts as an object, and do it that way instead...
If anybody feels like lending a hand, as to how to make an object visible in room 1 via dialog in room 2, it would be much appreciated.
There's no way to directly access other room. The usual way is to make a global variable, set it in room 2 and check in room 1's "before fade in" event, and setup the object accordingly.
Also, there's no need to use "object[1]", room objects can be given explicit script names and addressed using these names in script, like oPizza.Visible = true.
Copy that.
Alright, in this case I'll just take the detour route of creating a character that the player will think is an object. Sometimes you're the hero in a video game, and sometimes you're just the pizza, hah.
I believe this method will work for me here.
Thanks again, Crimson Wizard!
The correct time to learn how to use variables is always yesterday, because it means you can suddenly solve 99% of your problems today ;)
Seriously, don't put this off. Adding a global variable is very easy thanks to the project tree node of the same name.
Create an int named pizza_state with an initial value of 0.
A value of 1 means the pizza was ordered and has appeared in the other room. A value of 2 means the pizza is gone again.
// ordering pizza
if (pizza_state == 0) pizza_state = 1;
In the other room's room_Load:
oPizza.Visible = pizza_state == 1; // turn object visible if state is 1
When the pizza is taken:
pizza_state = 2;
oPizza.Visible = false;
Copy that, Khris.
Thank you. That's easy to follow, and is once again a huge help.