Savegame slots not highlighting

Greetings!

I am new to Visionaire studio and I've been following up Glen's tutorials. Everything worked for me very well, until I came across creating save game menu. It is working, games are saving and loading, but for some reason, highlight image is not showing. I am suspecting that there is something in tutorial that was not shown? Or have I any settings set wrong? I checked up the tutorial again and I've been following really everything, nothing is different in my settings. Can anyone please help me how can I show slot highlight when left clicked and then hide it when other slot is being clicked on?
Thank you very much in advance for any answer and have a great day!

Vlk

The tutorials by Glenfx are somewhat antiquated. I can't say for sure if they are still valid for Visionaire Studio 4.x as they were written for the earlier versions of 3.x.

In regards to the save game system: The highlighting of slots has nothing to do with the save game system at all. If you want to highlight a slot then you need to create an object & define its interaction area (blue square icon) then you would inside of this object, create 2 actions: on mouse enter & on mouse leave then inside of these you would add the actions needed to display or hide the highlight image.

Please note: objects have no say in the amount of slots available or the order of the slots, because the save slots are infinite & can be cycled.

Here is a menu template I made for 3.7.1. It's a bit out of date, but it should give you an idea of how to piece together your own menu. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/594t03agkg18e06/AAC6L2GOFjn_hrLl4...

Hi! Thank you very much for quick reply!

I actually downloaded your template before I posted this and tried to look at it - but couldn't really find the solution, although I can see that you have there what I need. Since I haven't followed you how you did what, I am all lost :-(

What I did is I created objects inside my savegame menu, I named them Position_on_1,2,3 etc. as in Glen's tutorial. I loaded image of the highlight frame to them and defined the interaction area. Then I created the Position_1,2,3 objects (also created interaction areas for them, inside the areas of Position_on_1 etc. objects) and gave them condition Position_1_active? and set it for each to false. In actions of Position_1,2,3 ect, I set this:
.-POSITION_1 will have every CHANGE CONDITION POSITION_(2,3,4,5,6)_ACTIVE? to FALSE except the CHANGE CONDITION POSITION_1_ACTIVE which will be TRUE.

Then, in Position_on_1,2,3 etc., I linked condition "Position_1,2,3 etc_active?

In other words, everything which is mentioned in the tutorial. The result was that nothing showed up. I've played with settings a little bit and I've been able to set 0 visibility for the frames at the begining of the scene and to show them when I clicked them, but I could not find how to unhighlight the previous slot if you clicked on a new one. I just click and click until all of them are highlighted and then I have to leave the scene to reset it.

What do you think please? Could you please give me a hint on how to make the old highlights disappear when I click on a new slot?

You need to use additional if queries.

My suggestion would be to create a called by other action & rename it to something like reset_save_conditions. Inside of this we add a set condition action part for each of the conditions associated with the save slots & we set each one to false.

Now when you click on a save slot what you should do is first call the action we have just created & then set the condition for that slot to true. What that will do is reset all conditions to false & then instantly set the slot condition to true. It's a quick & dirty method but it works.

I tend to use Lua script these days for most things though, but what I just said above is a nice simple action part only alternative.

P.S: that menu template was mostly for advanced users. It featured a lot of bug prevention measures in regards to making sure all buttons & options were only active when they were supposed to be.

Ok, I tried my best again and it does not work. I am not sure, if I followed up your instructions correctly (I am sorry, I am really really quite new to this (I am a graphic designer), but all my settings now seems so logical to me, I don't know why it doesn't work.
I have now just the highlight objects (not two like in Glen tutorial). Image is loaded and visibility is set to 0% when the scene begins.
Inside every object (I will describe Position_on_1 object for example), I have following actions:

reset_save_conditions (more on attached screen)

Left click - inside this:

Change condition 'Postion_1_active?' to true

Every object is linked with it's own condition (Position_on_1 with Position_1_active? etc)

Of course as someone who just started, I can't see where the problem is - also because I really tried so many things (changing true false and so on). :-( I guess it is something really simple and I just can't see it or understand it.

You don't need conditions when you are using the opacity method.

Seems like a lot of people that decide to use Visionaire Studio are mostly graphic orientated without any prior knowledge of programming. Although VS is aimed at artists, I do believe that it requires a basic semblance of basic programmers knowledge, such as, an understanding of: if then else logic...

Would you be willing to zip/rar up your .ved & resource & message them to me via sendspace/dropbox or something? I'm not in the mood to create an example from scratch, but I can quickly edit your .ved file so you can see.

Quick note: whenever you create an if query, there needs to an end if action part to close the if query at the end of it.

Thank you very much for trying to help me, I really appreciate it!
I am sending you zip with ved file and few resources to cover up the Save menu scene through Dropbox (sending link via PM)

Yes, I've seen Visionaire as a gateway to finally fulfilling my dream of creating my own game. I always had tons of ideas and always got stopped by programming part, which ways way too hard for me and there was nobody at hand I could work with on it. Visionaire studio seems like something I will be able to learn and handle and I am willing to do everything to learn it. :-) I've got a firm grip of my dream now and I am not going to let it go. :-)) Although I am a designer, I have a basic knowledge of css, html, action script and so on.. I hope this will go nicely into my head.

Thank you for enlightenment in matter of if query, I didn't strike to me as obvious that it needs ending command, silly me :-)

If you have a basic understanding of html, css etc then you're already a step above people who have no coding knowledge at all.

Just think of if queries as an html tag, for each tag created, you need to close it off - where you close it off, is the more complicated part because it tends on how complicated your queries get, because it's possible to create additional queries inside of a query!

You could always request someone to help with programming side of game development, or look for people to form a team with to deal with things you aren't savvy with. Finding dedicated people & keeping them motivated is hard though; especially if you don't have money as a motivational incentive.