Help with Inventory

[ALK3_Steph]

Hello all! Ok new problem involving view. I want to make an inventory screen (Im not worried about coding for picking things up, using them, etc, just how to change the view)

So far, the player is parent to the view, so ti follows him in a fixed position. I want to hit the ' I ' key, and it switch to a screen that will show various things. So I tried to make a key down event for ' I ' and change the parent of view, to inventory, but it didnt work. Is there a special way I need to do this?

[Joshua Worth]

Try somthing like this on your key down event:

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if (inventory_on==1){inventory_on=0;)
if (inventory_on==0){inventory_on=1;)
if (inventory_on==1) {
  ChangeParent("view", "inventoryscreen");
  view.x=inventoryscreen.x;
  view.y=inventoryscreen.y;
                     }
                     
if (inventory_on==0) {
  ChangeParent("view", "player");
  view.x=player.x;
  view.y=player.y;
                     }

[Joshua Worth]

Did you try it, did it work?

[ALK3_Steph]

OH! Sorry I didnt reply. I havent tried it yet, because my trial ran out and I gotta wait til Friday (payday, woo!) then I get it and give it another try. I WILL keep you posted on this one

[Joshua Worth]

OK

[ondy1985]

Try somthing like this on your key down event:

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if (inventory_on==1){inventory_on=0;)
if (inventory_on==0){inventory_on=1;)
if (inventory_on==1) {
  ChangeParent("view", "inventoryscreen");
  view.x=inventoryscreen.x;
  view.y=inventoryscreen.y;
                     }
                     
if (inventory_on==0) {
  ChangeParent("view", "player");
  view.x=player.x;
  view.y=player.y;
                     }

Imho this WILL NOT work. Not correctly. The last "inventory_on==0" branch will never be executed.

[ALK3_Steph]

Oh, why not? I dont fully understand the code or the whole statement so, could you explain more why it wont?

[Joshua Worth]

Right I didn't think of that. You might have to set another variable to skip the second line

[ALK3_Steph]

Woo Im official. Haha