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[Jyujinkai]

My limited programming skills need some help

I basically have a room that is like the hollo-deck in startrek. Where there is a object that will run a ogg file that morphs the entire room into a new room.

Anyways....

How would i go about making walking areas and clickable things that are only active when the  correct background is displayed?

[metamorphium]

Simply set Active to true or false. Let's say you have in your 10 different regions called "A1", "A2" ... "A10"

var tmp;
switch (CurrentRoom) // variable containing the state of the morph
{
case 1:
  tmp = Scene.GetNode("A1");
  tmp.Active = true;
  tmp = Scene.GetNode("A2");
  tmp.Active = false;
  // etc... etc...
  break;
case 2:
  tmp = Scene.GetNode("A2");
  tmp.Active = true;
  tmp = Scene.GetNode("A1");
  tmp.Active = false;
  // etc... etc...
  break;
}

So you'll have the variable CurrentRoom changing together with scene morph and call some code like this to adapt the room to current condition.

Hope this helps.

[Jyujinkai]

thanks Morph... i am still not really sure....

so the "tmp" variable = 1 means case 1?

and i just add all the nodes in the case?

Say i have A1-A3... and then a room switch using B1-B3 for the regions......

Code: WME Script

1. var tmp;
2. switch (CurrentRoom) // variable containing the state of the morph
3. {
4. case 1:
5.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("A1");
6.   tmp.Active = true;
7.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("A2");
8.   tmp.Active = true;
9.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("A3");
10.   tmp.Active = true;
11.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("B1");
12.   tmp.Active = flase;
13.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("B2");
14.   tmp.Active = flase;
15.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("B3");
16.   tmp.Active = flase;
17.   break;
18. case 2:
19.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("B1");
20.   tmp.Active = true;
21.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("B2");
22.   tmp.Active = true;
23.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("B3");
24.   tmp.Active = true;
25.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("A1");
26.   tmp.Active = flase;
27.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("A2");
28.   tmp.Active = flase;
29.   tmp = Scene.GetNode("A3");
30.   tmp.Active = flase;
31.   break;
32. }

Then setting "tmp" to 1 will do case "1" and "2" will do case 2?

(i know i am a lame programmer)

[Daniel]

If I recall correctly, you can create separate layers for each morph case and then enable/disable entire layers so that you don't have to go through all regions in the layer and enable/disable them one by one.

And to your question, Jyujinkai, the variable you have to change is CurrentRoom and not tmp. tmp is just a temporary variable to use during the enabling/disabling of the scene objects.

[metamorphium]

it depends of course on the fact how much the screen changes during each morph.

Daniel is correct about the Layer approach:

var tmp = Scene.GetLayer("SomeLayer");
tmp.Active = true;

would ease your life a bit in case you have many regions for each change. The logic remains the same though.