Randomly idle-veiws

[Mats Berglinn]

Is it possible to have a idle veiw for the main character that is randomly selected between three or more veiws, like in DOTT? If yes, then how?

[RickJ]

I think you could do something like the following:

#define IDLE_VIEW   7
#define IDLE_DELAY  10

int IdleTmr=IDLE_DELAY;

repeatedly_execute() {
   IdleTmr--;
   if (IdleTmr<) {
      Character.SetIdleView(FIRST_VIEW+Random(5));
      IdleTmr = IDLE_DELAY;
   }
}

[Mats Berglinn]

I think that's for the 2.7 version but what about 2.62 version?

[RickJ]

CharacterSetIdleView();

[Mats Berglinn]

You mean "SetCharacterIdle". You're not telling me the full code for the 2.62 Version, only the SetCharacterIdle bit. Please, tell me the whole code.

[RickJ]

Sorry Mats for the confusion.  I thought that would have been enough.  Anyway here is the entire code snippet for AGS 2.62.   It assumes that there IDLE_NUMBER_OF_VIEWS idle views consecutively numbered with the first one being given by the constant IDLE_VIEW.  The constant IDLE_DELAY determines how often the selection is changed.    You can set these constants to whatever numbers that give the best results in your opinion.   

#define IDLE_NUMBER_OF_VIEWS   5
#define IDLE_VIEW   7
#define IDLE_DELAY  10

int IdleTmr=IDLE_DELAY;

repeatedly_execute() {
   IdleTmr--;
   if (IdleTmr<) {
      CharacterSetIdle(EGO,FIRST_VIEW+Random(IDLE_NUMBER_OF_VIEWS));
      IdleTmr = IDLE_DELAY;
   }
}

[Kweepa]

You need to be careful with Random().
If you call Random(5), it returns one of 6 possible values 0..5.
So, in that code you should use Random(IDLE_NUMBER_OF_VIEWS-1).