Imagemap Variations?

[peroxidehead]

I'm really new to making image maps so I apologize in advance.
So I have this imagemap wherein the player chooses where they want to go. And I want to add icons of the character/s who're currently in that area to look like this :


However, my concern is that I'll be using this imagemap a lot of times and it's not like the characters will always be in the same place. I initially planned on just making different imagemaps for each time I'll be using it. But I feel like doing that will be really tedious. And so I was wondering if there's another way around this? I would really appreciate any help on this.

[Iylae]

Is there any reason why you don't use images with very specific xalign and yalign?

I can assume that you couldn't then just click "through" these to the imagemap behind, or if you can, I don't know the controlling parameter.

[peroxidehead]

Is there any reason why you don't use images with very specific xalign and yalign?

I can assume that you couldn't then just click "through" these to the imagemap behind, or if you can, I don't know the controlling parameter.

I'm , er, really new to imagemaps? I kind of thought that imagemaps works as one whole clunk of image. I didn't actually think that I could use specific images instead. I'll be sure to try it out this way though. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question!

[philat]

Assuming you're using a screen, the imagemap and the added images should be separate.

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screen schoolmap:
    imagemap:
        # hotspots and blah blah here
    if condition_fulfilled_here:
        add "character one" xpos x ypos y

The above is concept only: how you will keep track of which characters are where and add images appropriately is a matter for you to refine to your liking. I'm just pointing you to the basic premise -- check whether a character is at a place, then add the image with specific coordinates.

[peroxidehead]

Assuming you're using a screen, the imagemap and the added images should be separate.

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screen schoolmap:
    imagemap:
        # hotspots and blah blah here
    if condition_fulfilled_here:
        add "character one" xpos x ypos y

The above is concept only: how you will keep track of which characters are where and add images appropriately is a matter for you to refine to your liking. I'm just pointing you to the basic premise -- check whether a character is at a place, then add the image with specific coordinates.

Thanks! I think I might do this instead of what I had initially planned , though I'll need to study more on imagemaps.