Hello Everyone,

I need to display a panel (and possibly execute some other functions) ONLY when the user is in a specific room. How do I detect that the user is in the boundaries of the room? And when the user leaves the room, how can I detect that?

Any ideas / advice is much appreciated!

Regards,

Doriel

Several ways.

One could be triggers, put a dummy object in the entrance / door of the room and assign an action / function to trigger the event when the player touches the objec.

Ex:

Code:

---

function my_event
{
   if ( EVENT_TYPE == EVENT_ENTITY )&&( you == room1)
   {
       my._roomPos = 1;
       // other functions
   }
}

---

In player action put:

my.enable_entity = on;
my.event = my_event;

In rooms dummy action:

my.passable = on;
my.enable_entity = on;

I tried the whole passable object idea but couldn't get it working. I'll have to try it again now that I have some script to look at.

Thanks!

You need to c_move your player in order to
trigger events.

Maybe try :
Code:

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if (vec_dist(player.x,specific_room.x) < boundary)
{
   // do something when player inside the room
} else {
   // do somthing when player outside the room
}

---

maybe you could use c_content?

I have just tried getting it to work using the passable object. It seems like it would work. The only problem is, when i'm walking through the object, i think it's going into SWIM mode? It makes a splashing sound and the player crouches? Something like that. Oh, and it doesn't trigger my function. When i turn off passable for the object, it triggers my function. Weird.

Any ideas? If not, I will have to try some of the other suggestions.

Regards,

Doriel

You could make it not passable and invisible and remove it just after triggering your function.

You could also compare the player's x, y, and z coordinates to the room coordinates and trigger your function when they coincide. I used that on several occasions back in A5.