Claas

well, I did read it before I posted – I did try to prototype and use youtube to find possible answers.

The inverse Matrix error message in the doc makes no sense to me since this is a simple parenting

XEON and KDV

thank you so much for your code / puzzle examples.

I did settle for this simple logic which does what I need to do.

It works very well – is short – easy to remember

without you all telling me about how to make lists (XEON) and to check the visibility of objects (KDV) I would not have been able to get this together in this short time!

Again thank you!

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here is an older logic I tried and to make it faster I thought to use lists

with more than 14 objects to turn on off those puzzle command chains would get super long

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by Claas.

no surprise you don’t know what I’m talking about – I don’t know it either lol
I get your explanation now – this would work with multiple objects too since turning on one object will hide all others – I thought a list is bets fo that to sort stuff?

my logic seems to work well besides that

after I click on the red icosphere to show it
and then while it is visible click on the blue icosphere
it only hides everything but does not show the blue cube and sphere

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by Claas.
• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by Claas.

XEON your if then approach and switch fr the list does the trick.

I can now with a mouse click turn objects on and with a second click turn it off

I did the show hide first manually for all objects but this is madness and having learned how the list tool works makes this so much easier to script.
Even adding a timer I figured out. I work and teach in 3D modeling so scripting is like black magic for me but Verge3D makes this much easier to try.
I was first looking into Godot but this is too daunting – also for my students.

Now I can go back and delete all the hours of work I did and rebuild the logic with 10% of the commands ;)

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by Claas.

xeon wrote:

Well… I think before we go round and round adding things after I supply a solution we should define all the requirements.

Just so you know I did copy each idea into my files to test – the input is highly appreciated.

please understand that my repetitive / incremental questions are only because I am still learning it and with each step well would ask differently.

but since you asked this is I think the ultimate goal:

in the end all light cones or error images should be off when loading

when I click one light objects the light cone and error message is displayed
if I click the same light object again the cone and error is hidden

if I l click a different light object the previously visible light cone and error is hidden
and the new light cone and error image will be shown.

and with one other UI button everything is turned off

I am still trying to digest your comments and learn the logic behind puzzles
while puzzles is pretty simple there is still some understanding needed to know what will do what

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