Castle Paradox

[beau_rl]

I have made an introduction for a project of mine, using show backdrop and wait commands, and when the intro is over, i need to use a teleport to map or use door command. But when i do this, the map appears distorted and the hero is invisible. The map sizes are minimal, so could this have anything to do with it? The hero can still use doors as if everything was fine. thanks

[DomGallo]

Did you use ShowNoBackdrop, or whatever the command is? If you forget that, it sometimes just shows the mapset, and hides the hero.
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[Ysoft_Entertainment]

here is something taken from plotdictionary

[beau_rl]

i have done that, but when the map loads, it is distorted. It is like the map has been divided and the top half is at the bottom, and the bottom at the top. Sometimes, when i move my character around, you can see glimpses of him as he passes certain tiles, but disappears again. I really need this to be worked out before i can advance.

[Leonhart]

Did you use the pan camera command? I think that it is necessary to fix the camera when you move it up or down.
For example, you move the camera north twice. After the cutscene, and when it's in the fade screen out command, you need to move back the camera south twice. I'm not so sure about that, though.
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[msw188]

Actually, I think this is the camera, but the solution is even simpler. Just make sure to use the "camera follows hero (me)" command.

Basically it's like this. If you move the camera at all during a plotscript, the camera no longer thinks it has to depend on where the hero is. When a new map is loaded, the camera resumes doing whatever it was last doing. If it had been panned, then it goes to whatever x,y coordinate it had been on during the last map (thus, simply re-panning it won't really fix the problem). If it had been ordered to follow a certain NPC, then it will find that numbered NPC on the new map and follow it (I think).

Another word of advice. In my experience, it is better to write the code something like this:

#doing stuff where camera is moved
fade screen out
camera follows hero (me)
wait for camera
teleport to map (map, x, y)
wait for hero (me)
fade screen in
#continue

This makes sure that all of the camera hero movement happens while the player can't see it. I'm not sure if all of that is necessary, but it can't hurt.

[Raekuul]

Well, wait for camera might take too long, so throw in something in between to be sure that the player hasn't seen the camera move.
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[beau_rl]

Thank u very much. Adding the camera follows hero command fixed everything.