Invisible cursor, props and entities

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-28 17:04:46
User: CalvinMT [] (age: 1451 days 🔥; posts: 114)}
Hi!
Is there a way of making the cursor, props and entities invisible? I couldn't find any [b]~~*~~setVisible()*[/b] method.
I could use workarounds like a blank image or resize the current image/animation to 0. But it doesn't look nice...

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-29 09:17:28
User: steffen [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1568 days 🔥; posts: 100)}
CalvinMT
I think there might be ways to make this work right now for both of these use cases. However I think they are not pretty and we should think about improving the API here.

### For the cursor

If your approach would be the current way to go: ~~~~Game.window().getRenderComponent().setCursor(null) should do the trick I think. Previously we've also thought about creating a new class for the cursor to improve the API and such a class could then have a visibility property.

#### Suggested API

````javaGame.window().cursor().setVisible(false)````

### For Entities

I could imagine that your game has some kind of condition that controls whether or not all those things should be rendered. You could write a custom ~~~~EntityAnimationController that plays an empty animation when this condition is met. For that you could use the ~~~~AnimationRule concept. I think this might be a bit much to just temporarily hide an entity. Your suggestion sounds reasonable and I think we should extend the base ~~~~Entity class such that it has a visible property. However we need to be careful about this an check for all the places that might render an entity in the engine an include a check accordingly.

#### Suggested API

````javamyprop.setVisible(false);
mycreature.setVisible(false);````
Maybe we can create a feature request tickets on GitHub for these changes to describe them some more.