Silly Question: How do you change the Scene?

That may sound like a silly question because it's such an elementary thing in Visionaire, but I always have troubles with this; I don't like the results I get with my strategies:

In general i am doing the second solution you mentioned. That has one main reason:

1. The only reason it would do that is if you use an execute immediate action type & don't wrap the actions inside between either begin/end cutscene or hide/show cursor to disable player interaction. If you were to use execute at destination type actions then the actions will only be triggered once the character reaches the object position you specify in the properties tab for said object - bit where the compass is.

2. I don't recommend using action areas in way system tab unless you really need to. It's more suited to games where player is controlling the character by keyboard/gamepad or has dynamic npc that can walk about & between scenes. My preferred use for action areas is for specifying the ground type, like is the ground: dirt, metal, wood, concrete, forest floor, grass, gravel, etc.

Yes, it crashs very often. I forgot a way to reduce it, it was to click on a special tab or disactive the current area or sth like that... before you leave the action menu, thats works well very often. I'm going to look later.

If you want to avoid action areas, you can set an invisible object on the door with a click area, click on it, let "character go to object" and make a condition or an action to change the scene.

edit: of course you can use the door-objekt itself for changing.

This is the first way I try to change the scene. But if the player changes his opinion and clicks somewhere else after he clicked at the door (or an invisible Object), the character still changes the scene although he went somewhere else.

I forgot a way to reduce it, it was to click on a special tab or disactive the current area or sth like that... before you leave the action menu, thats works well very often. I'm going to look later. 

This is the first way I try to change the scene. But if the player changes his opinion and clicks somewhere else after he clicked at the door (or an invisible Object), the character still changes the scene although he went somewhere else.

OK, you are right. I used arrow objects to leave the scene with a request: "Möchtest du die Szene verlassen? Ja/Nein". I think every action a gamer decides needs a "yes" before it starts. But of course it's a lot of additional (zusätzlich?) work.

Ich hoffe, ich drück mich auf Englisch einigermaßen richtig aus...

It won't do anything if the player changes their mind if you use execute at destination type commands. As a bonus the player is already walking to the scene object/character you clicked on.

If you use execute immediate actions then you will most likely need to include a send character to x position/object & wait. Now unless you wrap this in a begin/end cutscene or hide/show cursor then the player will be able to set a new position & because the wait part isn't actually listening out for when the player gets to the actual position you specified in the send character to position/object but is instead listening for when character stops in general, it still ends up triggering the actions in that immediate action block.

I always use execute at destination type commands & I've never had a problem with them. If I wanted to force a cutscene then I would either use execute immediate commands or use an action area if needed to prevent the player from being able to interact with the scene when I don't want them to.

Quick note: technically also possible to overlay an interface set to same size as your default game resolution with the interface area set to same or greated than the default game resolution to still show cursor but disable scene interaction. Unfortunately if you are displaying action text then that will show up on mouse over scene objects/characters unless you temporarily disable it with Lua script. It was an experiment I ran recently because I hate that cutscene wrapper hides cursor, same goes with display texts - really wish there was an option built in to set a cursor for when player can't interact with the game. Think I'll make a request to Simon & see if he can sort it out somewhere down the line.