Print Page - How do I cause a delay without the wait cursor coming up?

Title: How do I cause a delay without the wait cursor coming up?
Post by: ESGmaster on Fri 27/02/2009 03:27:24

I'm working on a combat system, I have the animation working with repeatly execute, but when I have the player's health - 10 on it I end up with health ending up in the
-thousands, I havn't gotten the death when reaching 0 yet, I think players won't like dying in 0.10 seconds.

Title: Re: How do I cause a delay without the wait cursor coming up?
Post by: Gilbert on Fri 27/02/2009 03:32:53

Use a timer or a incrementing variable to do actions every specified numbers of game loops. You may try to read about timers in the manual (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/manual/SetTimer.htm) first. If you can't manage to make some working codes, just post with more details on what you actually want and we'll see if we can help.

Title: Re: How do I cause a delay without the wait cursor coming up?
Post by: ESGmaster on Fri 27/02/2009 04:10:40

I belive that will work expest it says it needs a ( on line 17 but there's already one. Sorry, but I am very bad at coding.
9 function room_RepExec()
10 {
11 if (TGP_Gangsters > 0)
12 {
13 cGANGTGP1.Animate (4, 3, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eForwards);
14 cGANGTGP2.Animate (4, 3, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eForwards);
15 SetTimer (1, 220);
16 }
17 if (IsTimerExpired);
18 Player_Health = Player_Health - 10;
19 SetTimer (1, 220);
20 Display ("Ouch, Hurry the hell up");
21 }
}

Title: Re: How do I cause a delay without the wait cursor coming up?
Post by: Gilbert on Fri 27/02/2009 05:45:03

The semi-colon ; in line 17 has to be changed to an open curly brace { .

Also, as I am not sure about the excact scenario you want I cannot say it 100%, but I think the codes will probably not work, as it seems the game game will constantly reseting the timer as long as TGP_Gangsters is still positive (as I don't know how TGP_Gangsters is actually updated in the script I'm not so sure though).

Title: Re: How do I cause a delay without the wait cursor coming up?
Post by: ESGmaster on Fri 27/02/2009 18:25:06

That works fine, but it still says it needs a ( on line 17, and on the combat the whenever the player kills one of the gangster the TGP_Gangsters is lowered by one.
if (TGP_Gangsters > 0)
{
cGANGTGP1.Animate (4, 3, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eForwards);
cGANGTGP2.Animate (4, 3, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eForwards);
SetTimer (1, 220);
}
if bool IsTimerExpired (1, timer1){
Player_Health = Player_Health - 10;
SetTimer (1, 220);
Display ("Ouch, Hurry the hell up");

}

Title: Re: How do I cause a delay without the wait cursor coming up?
Post by: Gilbert on Fri 27/02/2009 18:53:13

Should be like this (I missed that when I first read your code):

Code Select


if  (TGP_Gangsters > 0) {
    cGANGTGP1.Animate (4, 3, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eForwards);
    cGANGTGP2.Animate (4, 3, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eForwards);
    SetTimer (1, 220);
}
if (IsTimerExpired (1)){
    Player_Health = Player_Health - 10;
    SetTimer (1, 220);
    Display ("Ouch, Hurry the hell up");
}

1. The condition in a if clause must be enclosed by a pair of ().
2. IsTimerExpired is a function, so there must also be a pair of () following it. Also, this function takes exactly one parameter, so you need to put that in as well. Read the manual entry for more details.

Title: Re: How do I cause a delay without the wait cursor coming up?
Post by: ESGmaster on Sat 28/02/2009 01:33:34

Thank you, it's not fun having combat in a game without risk of injury, and it's not fun having combat with instant death.

Adventure Game Studio

AGS Support => Beginners' Technical Questions => Topic started by: ESGmaster on Fri 27/02/2009 03:27:24