making roof semi-transparent
 

I'm having some trouble getting my scripts to work properly online. It works good offline on the editor.

Basically when you enter a house, the roof turns semi-transparent and then when you exit the house through the door, the roof turns back to normal.

Here's my code for the roof NPC:

NPC Code:

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//#CLIENTSIDE

//function onCreated() {

if (created) {

  setimg roof.gif;

  dontblock;

  drawoverplayer;

  vRoofV();

  vUnderRoof = false;

}



//function onPlayerTouchsMe() {

if (playertouchsme) {

  vUnderRoof = true;

}



if (vUnderRoof == true) {

  vRoofI();

}

if (vUnderRoof == false) {

  vRoofV();

}



// Makes roof transparent

function vRoofI() {

  setcoloreffect 1,1,1,0.22;

  drawaslight;

}



// Puts roof back to normal

function vRoofV() {

  setcoloreffect 1,1,1,1;

  //drawaslight;

}



timeout = 0.05;

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When someone walks out through the door, the "vUnderRoof" flag is set back to false by touching a grass NPC as they walk out through the door:

NPC Code:

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if (created) {

  setimg vivendi_h10grass.png;

  drawunderplayer;

  dontblock;

  //vUnderRoof = false;

}



if (playertouchsme) {

  vUnderRoof = false;

}



timeout = 0.05;

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Well that's a bad way to do it.
You should probably check the players.x/y in a timeout and when the player enters the coordinates of the roof, transparent, otherwise, return to normal.

Well first of all, You need to define the variable on the client. Something like "client.vUnderRoof = false/true" will work fine.

Next, You need to do a loop to enable the code to detect the variable.

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I agree. Cherry, Why not check if the player's X and Y isn't in the NPC to undo it?

thanks. it is better to check the x & y coordinates of the players and i actually started doing that, but i thought it would be easier to use flags.

The best way to do it, in my opinion, is the way Hikaru is doing it. That's what I do too.