Allow there to be no player character.

Sherri

I'm toying with a sim-city type game. In this situation there is a mouse cursor but no player character on the map. Currently RPG In A Box won't let me launch a game without a player character model set. So I turned it into a crosshair type model but now I have a mouse cursor and a "player" crosshair.

I'd like to have NO player character and add some object interaction events like "on click" or "on right click" in addition to "player enters" etc.

I might have to try and work around by making the player character invisible and unable to move. They try and attach events to mouse click inputs.

Princess

Sherri what if the player character, as the crosshairs, sits on top of or surrounds the currently selected object or tile? The selector moves to wherever the last mouse-click occurs.

You could have a keybind to deselect everything, or more properly to select nothing, to make the selection tool disappear, and it could move the player character, the crosshair, to the nearest space not currently filled by a selectable object or tile, or to a "home space" on an object or set of objects or tiles representing a menu toolbar, and set and fix the current frame of the crosshair player character's animation to a default frame with nothing visible?

Sherri

Thanks @Princess! I'm doing something similar as a work-around. I have the "player character" looking like a crosshair. You can move it with the arrows or WASD keys. And yes you can select whatever is under the crosshair. Or you can right-click on the map to select whatever is under the cursor.

It's just weird how the camera is tied to the crosshair & it moves grid-wise. But it's pretty close.

I like your utility key-bind ideas - I may incorporate that!

Sherri

The other thing I'm experimenting with is making the player character invisible & able to pass through any objects. Then all interactions are via the mouse and the WASD or arrow keys just move the camera because it's attached to the invisible player character.