secret button for crystal mine

[bongobeat]

I figured how to add a secret button in the mine tileset: for the mine I think it need a completely new model, but for the crystal mine tileset, it's easy to make a custom button:

I ve modified a castle button, and use the rune particle to show the "invisible" button on a crystal mine pillar:

here what it gives:
you can see small rune particles. On the faceview it is hard to see in the screenshot, but you saw it better in the game.

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it is relatively well hiden, as a secret button should be.
the object definition:

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defineObject{
	name = "mine_secret_button_crystal_pillar",
	baseObject = "wall_button",
	components = {
		{
			class = "Model",
			model = "assets/models/env/castle_wall_button.fbx",
			offset = vec(-0.16,0.78,0.335),
		},
		{
			class = "Particle",
			particleSystem = "runic_2",
			offset = vec(-0.16,0.78,0.335),
		},
		{
			class = "Light",
			offset = vec(-0.16,0.78,0.335),
			range = 3,
			color = vec(0.5, 1.0, 2.5),
			brightness = 3,
			fillLight = true,
		},
		{
			class = "Clickable",
			offset = vec(-0.16,0.78,0.335),
			size = vec(0.25, 0.25, 0.25),
			--debugDraw = true,
		},
	},
	replacesWall = false,
}

the particle: (it is the same particle than the castle button but without glow, stars and fog)

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defineParticleSystem{
	name = "runic_2",
	emitters = {
	
		-- runes
		{
			emissionRate = 4,
			emissionTime = 0,
			maxParticles = 100,
			boxMin = {-0.15, -0.1,-0.1},
			boxMax = { 0.15,  0.1, 0.2},
			sprayAngle = {0,360},
			velocity = {0.05,0.1},
			texture = "assets/textures/particles/magic_runes.tga",
			frameRate = 2,
			frameSize = 32,
			frameCount = 9,
			lifetime = {1,2},
			colorAnimation = false,
			color0 = {1, 1, 1},
			opacity = 1,
			fadeIn = 0.1,
			fadeOut = 0.1,
			size = {0.05, 0.075},
			gravity = {0,0,0},
			airResistance = 1,
			rotationSpeed = 1,
			blendMode = "Additive",
			depthBias = 0.1,
			objectSpace = true,
		},
	}
}

you have to place a crystal pillar (or even on a crystal wall, as long there is some glowing crytal behind), the orientation should be 1.
then uncheck the model in the component description, or you will see a castle wall button.

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[Mal85]

Nice! I am pretty sure I would just walk right past those sexy little crystal switches. I have a feeling I may end up using quite a few of your assets and scripts by the end of my dungeon Bongobeat. ^^ Very Cool.

[Ciccipicci]

Thanks!

[bongobeat]

I suppose that it has to be used with parcimony, or it can be awfull to check every crystal.
Here I suppose it is ok, as it is on the same area of a secret place.

Maybe the rune particle should be modified to something bigger, or a difference of color, that it can be found more easyly.

[Isaac]

I figured how to add a secret button in the mine tileset: for the mine I think it need a completely new model, but for the crystal mine tileset, it's easy to make a custom button...

It really neat... in fact... I don't see it. Is this to be a ~more difficult to find~ secret button for the mine set? To compliment the existing secret button that is already in the mines?

it is relatively well hiden, as a secret button should be.

Actually... A real secret button should be well hidden, but in the game, I do think that all buttons should be visible to the eye when looked at; just that the secret buttons should be easy to miss in passing. Having to actually check the stones of a hundred identical walls would quickly become tedium... a completely concealed button should only be used in tightly confined space with a suspicious dead-end, or no visible exit.

[Drakkan]

so simple and cool solution, thanks !