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[rkitting]

Hello, I would like an item in a visible inventory blink for a few seconds after being taken. Using the this.Active attribute seems to only affect the item BEFORE it was taken.
How can I make an item in the inventory invisible then visible, then invisible etc.... 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

rkitting

[rkitting]

Ok, I think I solved it with the following code:

  for(var i=6; i>0; i=i-1)
  {
     Sleep(450);
   
     if (Game.IsItemTaken(this.Name))
     {
        Game.DropItem(this.Name);
        this.Active = false;
     }
     else
        Game.TakeItem(this.Name);
  }


Thx anyway
rkitting

[metamorphium]

this is a huge overkill. You can change the AlphaColor for the item and you can even achieve fluent blinking.

[rkitting]

Overkill is right   I tried changing the AlphaColor, but it only works when the item is not yet taken.

rkitting

[Kaz]

Could you do it by using a non-looping sprite as the inventory item, with two frames, one of which is blank, given say four instances each at a 400ms delay and ending with the item showing?

[metamorphium]

originally I thought about something like this:

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var it = Game.GetItem("Dagger");
var sp = it.GetSpriteObject();
        var frame = sp.GetFrame(0);

for (var a=0; a<255; a=a+10)
{
frame.AlphaColor = MakeRGBA(255,255,255,a);
Sleep(50);
}


But it doesn't work?? Try it and maybe Mnemonic would look into this himself.

[rkitting]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but the script above didn't work in the inventory, only outside of it (after commenting out the GetItem line).
Tried with both .png and single-framed .sprite.