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I'm brand new to Visual Logic (just installed version 5.7 from 5.0 two days ago), and I'm trying to build a scene where the PosX of one object is controlled by the visibility of another. I have two quads, one has the visibility published. If the user sets it as visible, I need the PosX of the *other* quad to change to 1500, but if it's not visible, to go back to it's natural home of 420.

Any thoughts on how to do this in Visual Logic? I could script the daylights out of it, but I'm forcing myself to attempt to learn the new stuff.

Hi Dan,

Feed the visibility into a Selector Block. The visibilty basically becomes a 0 or 1, and is used to select one of the inputs of the selector block and feed it to the output of the selector. When the visibility is zero the first input of the selector will pass, and when the visibilty is 1 the second input of the selector will pass..

Feed two constant X positions into the selector inputs, and connect the output of the selector to the Pos X property of what you are trying to control.

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What do I use to feed the X positions into the selector inputs? String block? Two other objects with their PosX set accordingly?

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In the Math category you will find a "value" block which is just a number..

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Using that same thought, if I feed a 0 or 1 into a Visibility block, can I control visibility of that object?

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Yes, that should work.

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Awesome. The final piece I'd want to find out then:

I've got one group that moves from the top left to the top right under certain conditions. I've got that working. Now, I need its visibility to be controlled by two different objects. If object A is visible, the group is visible with PosX of 420. If object B is visible, the group is visible with PosX of 1500. If neither A or B is visible, the group should not be visible at all.

Ideas?

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I'm assuming it doesn't matter what happens to the group when both A and B are visible, so this would be the simplest case that does what your statement says:



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Are you able to post that on any site other than imgur? Due to its use on reddit and for un-HR-friendly sites, it is blocked at my station.

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And if both are visible, it should be visible, with PosX the higher value. Basically, this is a bug that sits on the left, unless there is another graphic being used, in which case it moves to the right. So it's "natural" state is not visible on the left. This can be changed to be made visible by itself.

If the other graphic is visible, this should move to the right, and be visible (it will always be visible in this case). Some people don't remember this, and will turn the visibility of the group for the original "left-side" position. When this happens, it should be visible and on the right.

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This worked perfectly. Thank you!

As I said, I'm literally brand new to Visual Logic, and having scripted so much of this in the past, I'm stepping into a new world. Just trying to figure it all out.

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One more tweak I forgot. There's a third possibility: another object that when visible, the group should not be visible. This a different brand that gets used occasionally. So here's the function:

if ObjA.Visible=True and ObjB.Visible=False then

Group.Visible=True

Group.PosX=420

elseif ObjA.Visible=True and ObjB.Visible=True then

Group.Visible=True

Group.PosX=1500

elseif ObjA.Visible=False and ObjB.Visible=True then

Group.Visible=True

Group.PosX=1500

eslseif ObjC.Visible=True

Group.Visible=False

end if

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I think this is it:



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Here is a hypothetical example if for example you wanted the group at a different X position based on whether A,B, or C were visible.. It's not what you are asking for, but I thought it's a good example of how to cascade the input selector blocks..



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