(SOLVED) how to disable camera pan at scene start and inventory scroll command set not working

Hey,

You could try creating an execute a script action part containing...

... something along the lines of that inside of an at begin of scene action.

P.S: it should automatically focus on the characters position without panning. Create a new ved with the template thing so that it creates the start menu & first scene thing which happens to be wider than the default game resolution & the character starts off towards the right hand side of the scene. I don't have any panning in that when I press run. It just starts centered on the character.

Have you turned off character centering & enabled it inside of an at begin of scene action or something?

Thanks, you helped me figure out what I was doing wrong. I had my character's start point set up using a "set character to position" action "at beginning of scene" instead of a simple a scene object start point. However, I'm still struggling to figure out how to make the proper command appear on my inventory scrolling arrow buttons. I'm going to keep fiddling around with it.

No problem.

What do you mean by a proper command? You mean the action text? Could you share some screenshots of how you've setup the scroll arrow things & commands/cursors in question please?

Actually I figured that out too but now I have another problem. My inventory is a brifcase that pops open when you hover over it (inactive image is a closed briefcase, active image is open.) I want the inventory items to appear only when the briefcase is open aka when the image is active Is there a way to do this?

Actually I figured that out too but now I have another problem. My inventory is a brifcase that pops open when you hover over it (inactive image is a closed briefcase, active image is open.) I want the inventory items to appear only when the briefcase is open aka when the image is active Is there a way to do this?

Yes. Use 2 interfaces.

I had to create 2 interfaces for the A Little Less Desperation technical demo as we needed one to display the inventory button in the same place all the time & another interface for the inventory items & inventory background to be displayed on because we have the inventory interface offsetted initially so it's hidden & then it slides in when we click on the inventory icon or press "i" or rotate the mouse wheel up/down.

Having 2 interfaces means you can offset, hide or make the inventory interface transparent until you want to show it.

I'm sure you can figure out what you need to do from what I just said, so I'll not go into detail on the matter at the moment.

I can't figure it out for the life of me. I can't get the interface to hide when I scroll over it. At one point I finally got it so the item was showing up only when the cursor was above it, but the active/inactive image was no longer working, so the briefcase wasn't opening. 

I can't figure it out for the life of me. I can't get the interface to hide when I scroll over it. At one point I finally got it so the item was showing up only when the cursor was above it, but the active/inactive image was no longer working, so the briefcase wasn't opening. 

It's late here for me now, so I'm afraid my brain isn't in help mode, but if you could provide some screenshots of how you've set it all up, it will give me a better understanding of what you have done (wrong?). Anyway, I'll check back in the morrow.

Hey,

Aisus! That's a shit ton & a half of screenshots you have posted there mate....

I believe you are just over-complicating matters.

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1. create an interface & name it something along the lines of inventory_bg. Set this interface class as misc under the interface properties tab.

2. create a blank (fully transparent) png or webp file that is the same height & width of the open briefcase image & add that as the background.

3. create a new interface button, set the button type to action area & now assign the briefcase open & closed images to the inactive & active image tabs. inactive for closed, active for open.

4. create a new interface & name it inventory. Create 3 buttons. 1 should assigned as a placeholder for items, & the other 2 should be scroll inventory items forwards/backwards respectively. Don't forget to create & assign both active & inactive arrow image states for both of the scroll button types.

5. set the interface class as inventory under the interface properties tab.

6a. go back to the inventory_bg interface you created & now create some on cursor enter/leave actions on the button you created that contains the briefcase active/inactive images. Also don't forget to create a interaction polygon (object area).

6b. inside of the on cursor enter action, add some actions along the lines of... set active image of whatever you named the button that contains the briefcase images. Then add a pause, let's say 250ms, then another action part that shows interface "inventory".

6c. For the on mouse leaves, you just want to do the opposite basically, hide the inventory interface & set the inactive image.

I think this should be enough to set you on the right path. You can get more fancy if you like by controlling the opacity (transparency) of the inventory interface to have the item slot/arrows fade in/out rather than snap hiding/showing.

P.S: don't forget to give each button/interface a unique name. also you don't have to use inactive/active images if you don't want to as you could use animations instead if you prefer & just play/stop them as needed. Also don't forget you need to assign interfaces to your active characters for them to be visible. Also you need to hide interfaces in game launch action under game properties that shouldn't be visible from game launch. There's probably something I'm missing, but it's late & my heads not 100% in the game right now.