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Thanks! That did the trick! I added the code for characters and objects too because they have the same issue.

I noticed it would after blocking, be still seen for a brief flicker. But by having the overhotspot.Text = "" code after the inventory item has been removed in place too, it now perfectly shows the correct label text instantly.

Provided I haven't messed this up elsewhere, perfection has been achieved here! Thank you very much!

Ah, it's been many months since I even looked at the overhotspot stuff, I think it's not in my global script, but in the Scumm Verbcoin GUI script, in which I think I left that well alone.

In any case, I just put that empty text line in wherever an inventory item was lost and it seems fine now.

You mean this text? If so, it already is. (The last two lines aren't relevant.)

Code: ags

function repeatedly_execute()
{
    
  gOverhotspot.Visible = true;
    // calculate coordinates assuming for now that GUI doesn't have to be moved
  int Posx = mouse.x - gOverhotspot.Width / 2; 
  int Posy = mouse.y + 40;
  // horizontal check
  if (Posx < 0) Posx = 0;
  if (Posx + gOverhotspot.Width > System.ViewportWidth) Posx = System.ViewportWidth - gOverhotspot.Width;
  // vertical check
  if (Posy < 0) Posy = 0;
  if (Posy + gOverhotspot.Height > System.ViewportHeight) Posy = System.ViewportHeight - gOverhotspot.Height;
  // finally, actually move GUI there
  gOverhotspot.SetPosition(Posx, Posy);
  if (mouse.y>320) gVerbCoin.Transparency=50;
  if (mouse.y<320) gVerbCoin.Transparency=0;
  
}

Woop! Thanks!

In my case it's

Code: ags

overhotspot.Text = ""

So the object doesn't show its text until you move off and back on to it, which isn't perfect but a million times better than having it still say the item command! Thanks!

Hello!

I realised when I have the character use an inventory item that results in the inventory item being removed, the label hotspot I have with floating text still says "Use (item) with (object)" when I no longer have the inventory item. I suppose I could tell AGS to relocate the cursor, but that would likely annoy the player.

Both of these codes do not fix the problem:

player.ActiveInventory = null;
mouse.Mode=eModeInteract;

I suppose it's not the mouse, but the label not refreshing. You have to move the cursor off the object and then the label behaves as it should. Is there a nice simple piece of code to tell it to refresh this? I'm not using the newest version of AGS, and I'm using a verb coin system.

I can't find any solutions for some reason, on the forum. Maybe I'm typing the wrong words. Help please!

2-3 hours playing time is a selling point for me haha. I found it odd they said that, most point and click games are very short by nature.

Anywho, nice pixel asthetic! Looks lovely

Just a small update. I'm still drawing backgrounds, but I am about roughly 70% through doing those! If I ever make another adventure game, I am going for a lower resolution! I will share a new background when I get to drawing characters and so on, so it's a more interesting reveal.

Here is the chap who went missing, has anyone seen him?

Hey Ponch! I joined AGS like, one year before you! I have been busy making a new game, (It's in the production thread) after making a platformer on a different engine. (See sig.)

You can't delete it I'm afraid. A mod will likely lock the thread to ensure it drifts off into the void. Or something.

yeh good stuff! I like the xylophone/mandarin thing!

My only crit would be about 11 seconds in when it's stripped back to mostly the beepy bass, it works better mixed in, I found it a little too much on its own.

Guess I'm in the minority here, I say A. I don't have to glance at the bottom of the screen, it's right there where I'm looking.

some owners treat their pets as humans... I don't like dogs in the house...they should be cared for outside.

There's a big difference between treating a pet like a human, and letting it be inside a house! Especially how hot it is where I am, a dog would just die in this heat.

Yeah true enough, I am giving advice as a lot us would, as individual developers, not teams and some without contributers.

I'm doing everything myself, and I'm dying to compose the music but I decided to focus on each asset at a time (backgrounds, sprites, objects, music and sound.) Something a team cannot do.

Trying to do bits of everything wasn't working!

Back to the Future Part V?

Yep, it's from Henry's House, a C64 game I loved as a child, one of the earliest games I ever played. As you can see, I gave that portion a makeover whilst keeping the original resolution.

I have been using imgur as well, because Photoshop has become an unusable spam attacking hell hole.

Groundhog day? (Because it has an alarm clock in it)

Right decade I think, as jet set willy etc.

It would need to be a naked foot for Monty Python, no?

update: Wow, the same YEAR as Jet Set Willy.

Yeah, I used a free program called SketchBook. Here is one such image I created, if it helps to see what I/we mean. This image is before I made some changes, after finding I didn't like some of it when I put my character in the environment.

Now this may look like I'm really good at doing 2 point perspectives, but the program did most of the hard work, that's what makes it so damn useful!

Okay, this is likely bending the rules to breaking point. I painted over the original graphics, what game is it?