Simple backpack

[Tsaras]

There must be tons of solutions for this already, but I am going for a very simple version.
I want a selectable "hero" or "unit" that will have a bag icon and will contain a few spells and will be able to hold some items for the actual hero.
Hero works nice because there is an icon right underneath the hero icon, which is what I'm going for.
I do not have space in the hero's UI to add an "open backpack" ability.

So far I have:
1) Created a hero with invalid model, no vision and no attack. The issue is that when selected, it shows hero stats and whatnot and it also gets xp from dying mobs.
2) When selected, the selection circle shows underneath which I would prefer not to.

Any pointers to the best practises for such kind of backpack?

 

[Chaosium]

You can prevent your backpack from getting XP via trigger, add this whenever it's created

• Hero - Disable experience gain for MyBackpackHero.

You can remove the selection circle with this little trick, although it doesn't always work perfectly

(shift enter to set a negative value)

As for the stats, I don't think there's an easy way to hide the entire panel. I guess you could have your actual backpack handled by a non-hero unit, and whenever the player selects the dummy hero, you force the selection of the backpack unit instead. There'll be like a microsecond where you can still see the hero but heh it is what it is

 

[Barbafire]

In addition to Chaosium, about using a non-hero unit, are you using the worker slot somehow in your project?

If you set a unit category into “worker”, when it is idle, it’s icon will be show at the left side of the screen (like peasants when they are idle).

Supposing your backpack doesn’t move, it’s icon will be available the entire game for quick acess.

 

[Tsaras]

Thanks for the replies. I've managed to make the "hero" backpack work for now, but I will also try a non-hero "worker". Probably the only difference will be the hero UI.