Invisibility, effects and hideplayer()
 

I'm planning to script an invisibility suit. I've toyed around with the hideplayer function, and I have a few questions:

Does hideplayer(); work as a toggle when no float is specified, or does it not work at all? There doesn't appear to be a showplayer function, so this is confusing me.

Also, is there any way to produce the effect of a player fading out in a ganiscript? I'm not too proficient with both ganiscript and the emitter, so I haven't really tried. I'm after a shaking/fading effect that's often seen in horror movies (I can't really explain it, but I could probably do it if there was a way to express a player as an emitter object)

There is an "alpha" variable for players in the next Graal version

Well that makes one of my plans incredibly easier :D

That certainly makes some ideas more practical. :D

next graal :O

sounds like u should upgrade the editor too ;D

To OP:
I suggest you tinker with player.zoom if you want to hide the player.
Just basically do something like set a player.attr to true if someone should go invisible then either in a System script or in a gani status script (like the "heart" gani that was on Maloria when it was public) make something that hides players with that attr set to true. Just player.zoom = 0; to hide and player.zoom = 1; to show. This will also hide their name.

Then there is also the easy way:
setani("", "");

Or you could just use replaceani() on the idle and walk gani's (and any others that might show up) with a blank gani (or one that doesn't exist at all)

What Maloria did for stealth was make a gani that was just a small light effect and used replaceani(), if I remember correctly.

Dur, but it was still smexy.

Will showganis also have alpha properly in the next version?

One would hope, although some things should still be possible to alpha in a gani script...just depends on what it is, I guess.

Well when he said players I'm assuming he meant all TGaniObject's which includes TServerPlayer. So I am sure this will also branch out to TShowImg_Ani's as well.