inventory box pop up and walk-behind area

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Hi I have been doing tests on a game I am practicing making and I clicked on the inventory at the gui and the inventory box came up, no inventory in it yet - not up to this stage - but when I try to close the box it wont close at all. Any problem I need to be aware of?

Another problem, where I made a walk-behind hotspot of a tree, yes it kind of works that I can see my character go behind the tree, and character stops at the baseline in the right place that I meant it to be at which is good but if I move her a little bit straight onwards down, still in the walk-behind area, she goes right through the tree. What is the solution for this particular problem? Thanks for your time

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Thanks you guys for the help, I am getting there with it, getting it slowly. Now umm sorry to ask again, but does anyone know how to solve the inventory box pop up box - not being able to close this box at all...?

[Alynn]

The easiest way is to move your walkable area a bit farther from the tree so it isn't possible to have that sort of clipping. In other words the character needs to be limited so they can't move directly downward through the tree.

[Khris]

and character stops at the baseline in the right place that I meant it to be at

Don't confuse baselines with walk-to points.
By setting the baseline of a walkbehind, you specify a certain y-coordinate.
As long as the character's feet are below this line (i.e. the character's y-coordinate is bigger than the baseline's), he's displayed before the walkbehind. When the character is above the baseline (i.e. his y-coord is smaller than the baseline's), he's displayed behind it.

To prevent the char from walking through trees, as Alynn said, make holes in the walkable areas.
(You don't have to redraw the walkables, just select a color that's unused yet, draw the hole, then delete the area.)

I don't know if this is relevant here, but keep in mind that a walkable area and a walkbehind are different in an important way: A walkable area specifies the parts a character can walk on, while a walkbehind specifies which part of the background he'll disappear behind.

Here's a little drawing I did quite some time ago:

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I am really pulling my hair out! It just does not work!!! Since I saved the game and went to bed last night then came back to work on it, the display message in the interaction box has gone, so I added a new one, but when testing the game the old message shows instead of the new one. and on top of it, the character still goes thru the tree even tho she looks to be walking behind it. What is going wrong? I really dont understand a lot of this sorry. Pls help, really desperately frustrated

[SilverWizard_OTF]

Look, about the walk-behing stuff, first off all make sure that you have checked the baseline is in correct place. Secondly, are you sure that you don't have any walk-able area that "fills" all the tree by mistake? Ah, and maybe you have to make smaller the area of walk-behind, to fill only the tree-ground-level area (not the entire tree).

About the old and new message, are you sure that you don't have any script command like "DisplayMessage"..."" Check it out.

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Thanks everyone for the help, all that has been solved in my questions.

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I guess I better back up a little with this thread - it seems we have forgotten the question of the inventory pop up box, it wont close when I click on Ok. I am using the default template for the moment. What would the script need to have in it to make the inventory pop up close again when I click Ok? This will be a good lesson for me to learn when I make my own template. Thankies

[GarageGothic]

I don't know the name of your Inventory GUI (I didn't even know there was one in the default template). But if the GUI is called inventory, the code to close it would be:

Code: ags

gInventory.Visible = false;

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Thanks! Solved!