direction of character when entering a new room

[PennyLane]

Hi,

how do I change the direction my character is facing on entering a new room?

Example: The character walks out of one room at the top edge, thus Loop 3 (up) is used. But he enters the new room on the right edge, thus Loop 1 (left) should be used but it's still Loop 3.

Thanks for helping,
PennyLane

[Ashen]

Use the Player enters room (before fade-in) interaction, and either Character.FaceLocation(x, y) or directly alter the Character.Loop property.

If you haven't already, take a few (alright, a lot more than a few) minutes to read through the manual. Just knowing the names of some of the commands and properties makes it easier when you come to asking yourself "How would I do ...?"

[PennyLane]

OK, thanks 

[Tamanegi]

I'm not making a new thread because my question is a direct followup of the opener's:

What can I do if the room can be entered from various directions, but the camera in adjacent rooms doesn't face the same direction as the one in that room, and I want to specify a facing upon entering from each direction?

I tried changing the facing directly after the line changing the room in the script, but it did nothing; I also tried changing the facing directly before the line for room change, but that gave me a runtime error.

[Creator]

In the previous room make the character face the location before changing rooms, but make sure it's a blocking script (which always works for me).

Code: ags

player.FaceLocation(player.x-1, player.y, eBlock); //Player faces left
player.ChangeRoom(2);

[Tamanegi]

That works, but it's a little ugly because the turning is still visible before fade-out...

My next idea would be a global variable that stores the ought-to-be orientation in the next room and a script in that room that turns before fade-in, but I'd rather use an ordinary command if there's one that is suited.

[Creator]

Perhaps this might work:

Code: ags

//Player enters room before fade-in
if (player.PreviousRoom == 1) {
  player.FaceLocation(player.x-1, player.y); //Face left
}
else if (player.PreviousRoom == 2) {
  player.FaceLocation(player.x, player.y+1); //Face down
}
//etc.

I pretty sure blocking scripts cannot run before fade-in so you should leave it as a non-blocking command.

[Tamanegi]

That works great! I didn't even know there is something like "previousroom"...  :

[OneDollar]

I think you can just do

Code: ags

player.ChangeRoom(2);
player.FaceLocation(player.x-1, player.y, eBlock); //Player faces left

The FaceLocation seems to get run after the room fades out, but before room 2 fades in, at least it worked that way for me

[Ashen]

I didn't even know there is something like "previousroom"...

Which is why you're supposed to read the manual before posting questions.

ChangeRoom is a 'queued' coomand - it doesn't run immediately, but is executed at the end of the block of code it's called in. (This is also in the manual ) So, in effect, OneDollar's code and Creator's are the same, and would have the same problem. Using player.PreviousRoom is a much neater solution anyway.

[Tamanegi]

I didn't even know there is something like "previousroom"...

Which is why you're supposed to read the manual before posting questions.

Which I usually do, but reading the whole manual without having an idea what you are looking for is like trying 20 items with 30 hotspots and hoping something useful happens    It's very hard to memorize everything in the manual at one time.

But I know what you mean, some questions posted here have really obvious solutions. Thank you for answering all our newbie questions so patiently!  I hope to be able to reward you soon with a nice game!