Door Hider and Button/Lift Hider for Creatures 3 and Docking Station 
     - hm_hiders2.txt - April 26, 2001 - VERSION 2.0

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                 --- DISTRIBUTION ---
Do not place this agent on your webpage without receiving
permission from the author first. Please use the contact info 
supplied below to ask for permission.

E-mail:    Hausmouse1@aol.com
Webpage:   http://members.aol.com/hausmouse4/index.htm
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                 --- Installation ---

If you have C3, to use this agent you must have the C3 update 
two!

To see if you have the update press ctrl-shift-enter to put 
Creatures 3 into windowed mode. The window should say 
'Creatures 3 - Engine 1.162'. You must start a new world for 
the update to take effect. Worlds created prior to the update 
will not inject agents correctly, even if you have installed 
the C3 update. Press ctrl-shift-enter to get back to 
full-screen mode.

If you are using Docking Station, don't worry, everything 
should work fine.


For C3 standalone:

Put hm_hiders2.agents into your My Agents folder. Start 
Creatures 3 and go to the Agent Creator Machine. Make sure you 
have gotten the Creator Efficiency power-ups and have at least 
50 units of Bioenergy. Click the arrows until you find the 
Door or Button/Lift Hiders for C3, then click the round create 
button. 

To remove this agent from your world you must use the 'remove 
agent' function of the Agent Creator Machine. The Door and 
Button/Lift Hiders can also be recycled.


For Docking Station:
(Capillata only or docked with C3)

Put hm_hiders2.agent into your Docking Station\My Agents 
folder. Go to the Comms center and click the Agent Injector 
Button. The Door Hider and Button/Lift Hider for DS should 
appear in the available agents list. Select it by clicking its 
name, the press the check mark to inject it into your world. 
Injecting the Door or Button/Lift Hiders will also place a link
to my website on your Websites screen.

Please let me know if you have a problem with this agent.


Bugs and Known problems:

When the Button/Lift Hider is touching both a button and a lift at the
same time, it will not register the lift. When using the Button/Lift 
Hider, it is best to make sure it is touching only one button or lift
at a time.

I have not experimented with the metaroom doors in Docking Station
yet. They do already have locks on them, so the Door Hider might
be unnecessary or cause problems.


DESCRIPTION:
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These agents are designed to 'lock' buttons, doors, and lifts by
making them invisible to creatures. A creature can't activate what it
can't see. :-)

To use the Hider, simply touch it to the object you want to make 
invisible. In a few seconds the roving eye will stop. The color of
the stationary eye indicates the visibility of the object. Red is
visible, blue is invisible. Click the Hider to change the visibility
attribute. It may take a second or two for the Hider to register the
change.

Be careful about making lifts invisible. A creature that is homesick
or in need of a certain type of food will happily jump off cliffs to
reach its goal!

NOTE: A 'door' is actually two door objects -- the exit and the 
entrance. To make a door completely impassable, you must make both
sides of it invisible.

Also, the Button/Lift Hider only works on objects classed as 'buttons'.
It will not work on the parts of a machine that we humans call 
"buttons". To see what an object is classed as in C3, press F1 and
left-click on it.

Lis Morris' Infirmary door is meant to be invisible, so I would leave
it that way.

IDEAS:
Use the Door Hiders to quarantine the different Terrariums, such as
the Jungle. Make the door to the Learning Room invisible to make an 
isolation chamber for Norns. Make the airlocks safe from inquisitive 
creatures by making the doors and buttons invisible. Make a lift 
invisible for a few minutes to stop a crowd of Norns from doing the
'up-down-up-down' loop.

The Door and Button/Lift Hiders cannot be seen/smelled by creatures.
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Files added by agent:

hm_hiders.c16
hm_hiders.catalogue
hm_logo.c16


SCRIPT NUMBERS:

2 24 54000 1
2 24 54000 9
2 24 54001 1
2 24 54001 9

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If you have any problems installing this agent, I'll be glad to 
help you. Please e-mail me at: Hausmouse1@aol.com
