Hide Mechanic

TinyTimidTurtle

Hello. I was wondering if there was a way to have my character act like she is hiding. Im designing a platform game and have the character movements down and hiding animation ready. The character would jump into the background shrubs. I'm having trouble making the character interactions and other animation disappear when the hide button (up arrow) is pressed. I'm also having difficulty making the character only be able to hide if they are in front of the bush on screen. So, the hide mechanic would only activate if they are in the proximity of the shrubbery. Is there an easy way to do this? I tried making booleans defined the the character's position, but that didn't work. Please help.