Deactivating Characters is Not Working

Hello, I know I haven’t been on this for awhile but I’ve been working on my game that relies on the characters being deactivated. I know you can do it in the panel and I set active on game start to false except when I playtest the game the characters are not deactive whatsoever you can see them.

Either this is a bug or I’m just not doing this correctly

I would assume it means you just can’t interact with them until something is triggered. Is it connected to anything to make sure it can be triggered at some point?

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To clarify, when you say “characters” you mean sentries, right?
Also,

Welcome back @goobergoofy !

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No, like the season ticket character (npc-type stuff). right @goobergoofy?

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yes yes the season ticket characters

they have channels but they’re meant to make them be activated

I guess you could use a counter and once a specific time is reached it activates the npc?
also would you mind changing this to Help? o nvm i get what ur saying. you could block npc off with a prop at thats really the only way to do stuff

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Well like Kormorant said, deactivated means that you can’t interact with them. They still appear in the game.

90% sure that’s right

but the thing is i can still interact with them

would you mind sending some screenshots

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besides that point there is another opption with the title “interaction enabled” and when you deactivate it it turns transparent when not ingame


and you still can interact with the npc on game start?

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i went through some tests with the interactions enabled and active on game start set to no and sure enough i could interact with them

That can actually be useful if you don’t want the player to have access to it right away. You can reactivate it once the player has completed something or after a certain amount of time. Unlike the checkers’ “none” category, this can be useful.

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They don’t actually mean that it’s useless, they’re saying that it isn’t working correctly…

Ohhhh ok lol

I would try replacing the NPC first.

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I changed the title, lol.

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It’s impossible to make characters disappear, it just doesn’t let you talk to them
Try using sentries that are on the same team as you, add buttons if characters are talking.

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