How do you make an alias for an exit?

[David-Jareth-Bowie]

I am using both the browser and also the PC home version. I am not finding a way to make an alias for an exit leading out with a name of "Hallway"

Per the tutorial- [Exits, like every object in Quest, can have an alias, which is simply a way of displaying a particular name to the player. Notice how the two exits we just created have aliases of “south” and “north”. (We could give our exits any alias - it doesn’t have to be a compass direction. If we were setting a game on a ship for example, we might have exits with aliases like “port” and “starboard”.)]

But how does one do that? If I click OUT, can I still make an alias? I am fiddling with it and I can make the exit Out and Train yard or just Train yard, because that is the map name. But I can not put "hallway" it seems as an alias.

Also, if I click on the alias drop down box, which just asks what exit of direction- N, S IN, Up, etc. I then am stuck on what ever thing I clicked on. I can change it to another direction, but not put it back to blank in case I no longer wanted to use it. It feels like I have to delete the whole exit at that point and start over.

Am I missing a step? Thank you.

[Pertex]

you can choose the type south for example and change the field alias as you like:

And if you don't want to use a type south or north, then choose the type "Non-directional exit"

[David-Jareth-Bowie]

What (sub) screen(s) are you on? I do not see that in the browser.

Edit: like how did you get "Haus" to show up to begin with in the alias dropbox? Anytime I click Alias, a drop down box of cardinal directions appears. I do not get "hallway". I type the name hallway in "name", but that does not show as an option.

And I have to click on Room-Exits- and Add at the bottom to even get that far.

[David-Jareth-Bowie]

I am seeing the issue now on the browser version, at least from a cell phone and tablet perspective. Not sure if it is a bug or just how the browser is designed to be less robust. Maybe the PC would be different in the browser, but I can not test it out right now.

Regardless, on the home PC version, when I am at the dev screen and in the room, clicking on the Exit tab and click on the plus (add) button at the bottom, left clicking on the Alias let's me type what ever I want.

On the browser version, at least with my cell phone and tablet, it will not do that. There is a blank spot, but it never allows for my keyboard to pop up to type anything. It merely goes to a drop box of all cardinal directions. I can not hold down or copy and paste into it either. Effectively, I can not make aliases online on my devices.

[David-Jareth-Bowie]

From KVonGit-

Sorry, I didn't know about this difference.

Even on a PC browser, the alias for exits is just a dropdown.

In the desktop editor, it's a dropdown, but we can also type in whatever we please (as you know).

I don't know how that works, unfortunately. I can give you a workaround, but it's two extra steps for each exit you want to give an alias.

• Give the exit a name (this is to refer to the exit in a different script)
• Add this to the game object's start script: myexitname.alias = "myexitalias"

Add that line for each exit you want to assign an alias, substituting myexitname for the name you give the exit, and "myexitalias" for its alias.

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