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[Stucki]

Hello.
First of all. I love this engine !!! it absolutely rocks. Today i was so proud on the work i have done with this engine. I want to share with you !!! thanks for this amazing tool !!!!

now my today problem ....

i have a scene in which stands a 3dactor. this has 3d geometry
now i change to another scene. this one has no 3d geometry

my char stays visible even when the first call in the new scene is actor.Active=false or a actor.SkipTo(-500,0); command. when the first Talk command is actve my char behaves like he should and disappears to the position assigned to it

than i changed the scene change to the game.fadeout . scene.change ("name",false, false); and game.fadein method. same problem.
than i deactivated the actor bevor the scene.change by actor.Active=false; doesnt change,too

what am i missing ?? any idea ??

stucki

[Mnemonic]

Well actor.Active should effectively hide the actor no matter what. Aren't you changing the attribute in some other script?

[Stucki]

okay i found the problem but cant get rid of it.

i used to have a 2d actor dummy for starting. now i changed it to a 3d full char.

in scenes where the actor has to talk, but hasnt to be visible ( mostly closeups) i simply moved my char out of the screen. ( actor.SkipTo (-200,0)  so he can talk but is not visible.
this doesnt seem to work for my 3dchar anymore. he just dont react on this call.
i think i will have to create an extra char for closeup scenes.
but why cant i move the char out of the screen like the old 2d one ??

[odnorf]

For speaking without a character on the screen you can hide the character and use an entity with an empty (trasparent) image.

[Stucki]

thanks good idea !!

and now i know why the actor.SkipTo method doesnt work.
these scenes do not have 3ds.data so the actor cant move to the specific point .. am i right ??

[Stucki]

and actor.Scale=0; works fine, too.
so i do not have to alter all my actor.Talk commands ...

or does it slow down the engine when a 0 scaled char is rendered ??

[Mnemonic]

or does it slow down the engine when a 0 scaled char is rendered ??

Yes, a lot of work is done even if the scale is zero. The invisible entity suggested by odnorf is definitely a cleaner solution.