Invisibility, effects and hideplayer()

[Raeiphon]

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)

[Admins]

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

[Twinny]

Originally Posted by Stefan

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

Well that makes one of my plans incredibly easier

[Cloven]

Originally Posted by Stefan

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

That certainly makes some ideas more practical.

[theHAWKER]

next graal :O

sounds like u should upgrade the editor too ;D

[zokemon]

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("", "");

[coreys]

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.

[Moondeath_2]

Originally Posted by coreys

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.

[JkWhoSaysNi]

Will showganis also have alpha properly in the next version?

[coreys]

Originally Posted by JkWhoSaysNi

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.

[zokemon]

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.