I've been posting this in the beginners forum up until now but I thought I'd see if I could get any more help from here before I went ahead and did much more.
Basically, I wanted to create an animated background controlling the delays between each frame. Gilbot helped me with that code and it works fine on it's own. Here for referance:
1. put on top of that room's script:
int bgtimer,curbg;
int bgdelay[3];
2. Put in "first time player enters screen" script:
bgdelay[ 0 ]=8;
bgdelay[1]=10;
bgdelay[2]=7;
curbg=0;
SetBackgroundFrame(curbg);
bgtimer=bgdelay[curbg];
3. Put in "repeatedly execute" script:
bgtimer--;
if (bgtimer==0) {
curbg++;
if (curbg>2) curbg=0;
SetBackgroundFrame(curbg);
bgtimer=bgdelay[curbg];
}
The only problem is that, as the room in question is used only in a short cutscene, I have some blocking functions in there such as Wait, DisplaySpeech etc. One suggestion was to use this:
int waitimer=100;
while (waitimer){
Wait(1);
room_b(); //change it if your repeatedly execute script is not of this name
waitimer--;
}
instead of Wait(100); and that worked but before I do that for every single function in that room, does anyone have any other ideas as to how I can continue to have my background animated regardless of other blocking functions?
Thanks.
Unfortunately, it seems that blocking functions will block all other scripts from running, so you need to use non-blocking functions for it, for example, use DisplaySpeechBackground() instead of DisplaySpeech().
For example:
DisplaySpeech(EGO, "blah!");
can be changed to:
waitimer=150; //Unfortunately you have to work out the delays yourself
int handle;
handle=DisplaySpeechBackground(EGO, "blah");
while (waitimer){
Wait(1);
room_b(); //change it if your repeatedly execute script is not of this name
waitimer--;
}
If (IsOverlayValid (handle)) RemoveOverlay(handle);
Worst of all, the talking animations won't be played with DisplaySpeechBackground(), so you may add even more codes to animate him.
Luckily I don't have to worry about speech animation for this scene.
OK, I think it's all looking fine except I'm getting an "Undefined token "If"" for that:
If (IsOverlayValid (handle)) RemoveOverlay(handle);
line...
EDIT: Oh, ok. Nevermind, I just figured out what that means ^^ If -> if ... problem solved!
THANKYOU person with the great nickname that seems to indicate an interest in the ever wonderful Futurama. It finally works perfectly! @_@
Ah yeah a case mistake, sorry about that.
Heh actually I'd never watched Futurama and don't know much about it (except for that it looks really much like Simpsons), that must be a coincident. ;)
Oh, you should watch it. It's very awesome. But I'm getting off-topic now so I'll shut up ^_-
You don't actually have to paste that code in everywhere, though. You could write your own Wait, function, like this:
function MyWait(int waittimer) {
while (waitimer){
Wait(1);
room_b(); //change it if your repeatedly execute script is not of this name
waitimer--;
}
}
and then just call MyWait(100); from your other scripts.