How can I do player specific overlays?

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Jan 1 2010, 6:53 am (Edited on Jan 1 2010, 7:54 am)
Normally this isn't a problem for me but I've got myself into an interesting situation and I haven't slept in nearly 24 hours... that's my excuse anyway.

So... I'm trying to place a new(image) over an obj on the map which has mouse_opacity=2. Since I'm positioning the image vs overlaying it, when I click on the image, the turf below the obj picks up the click instead of what I expected which was the obj.

I think I need to do an image overlay on the obj to get my desired effect but how do I do that and still control which players see it?

ts
Jan 1 2010, 10:13 pm
Tsfreaks wrote:
Normally this isn't a problem for me but I've got myself into an interesting situation and I haven't slept in nearly 24 hours... that's my excuse anyway.

So... I'm trying to place a new(image) over an obj on the map which has mouse_opacity=2. Since I'm positioning the image vs overlaying it, when I click on the image, the turf below the obj picks up the click instead of what I expected which was the obj.

I think I need to do an image overlay on the obj to get my desired effect but how do I do that and still control which players see it?

ts
nope. as an overlay would work, you cannot make it player specific. You can however create the desired effect by making the image an obj and using it as a client if I presume correctly.
Jan 2 2010, 1:38 am
An image attached to an atom is visually treated as part of that atom's graphic, just like how overlays are, and as a result it receives mouse functions for its owner object.
Look up how to use image objects and make sure you've actually attached the image to the desired obj, rather than its turf.