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 Rooms have a tickbox called "hide player character" which can be used for title/menu/credits screens, etc.
-If the hide player option is ticked [the Character.on variable] holds 0.  This is an undocumented Character.on variable, which is normally 1, but you can also set it to 0 to make the character invisible.
+If the hide player option is ticked, the Character.on property holds 0. This undocumented variable is normally 1, but you can also set it to 0 to make any character invisible.
-Note that Character.Walk and the like don't work with characters turned off this way.
+But note that Character.Walk and the like don't work with characters turned off this way.
-N.B. Directly modifying Character.room won't prompt a room change, it'll just make the player character disappear, which is another way to do this.
+Another way to do this is directly modifying the Character.room property. This won't prompt a room change, it'll just make the player character disappear.
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