Background VS player

[Gabarts]

I've set a character speaking with a Timer and put the code under
function repeatedly_execute

In the manual it says it's better to use function repeatedly_execute_always() if the actions are not involving the player.

But anyway, I'd like to know 3 things:

- I've seen that the action is done but when my other character is speaking it blocks the cursor and GUI. Is there a way to avoid this?

- If I would make the action looping after timer is expired? For example in my case this character says something after timer 1 and something else after timer 2. Then I want the timers restart after a certain amount of time (looping the all thing).

- I want this function only executed when player interacts with hotspots for example and stopped when player is in dialogue mode of course.

[Khris]

1. Character.SayBackground()
This won't animate the character though, but you can animate it non-blocking to play the speech animation (and end it by checking whether the Overlay from SayBackground has become invalid in rep_exe)

2. Just use SetTimer(2, ...) inside your if (IsTimerExpired(1)) block and vice versa.

3. To do this, don't use repeatedly_execute_always but repeatedly_execute (since the latter isn't called during blocking events).

[Gabarts]

Always helpful Khris, thanks for the quick reply. I will do some tests.