I have setup a hotspot in a room and when the character talks to it a dialog is executed. Once the character asks a certain question, this sets a global variable to true and stops the dialog. When execution returns to the hotspot script, the next event is to run another script. In this script, I have the following commands:
if (<global variable> == 0) {
oPohn.Visible = true;
display("some text");
}
oPohn is an object in the room.
When I test the game the message displays first and then the object becomes visible which is the opposite of what I would expect given the order of the statements. If I take the message out then the object becomes visible right away. I'm at a loss to work out why this is happening and what I can do about it.
I did check the manual and the closest I could come to explaining it was the idea of blocking functions but to me, this still doesn't explain it as I was under the impression that a blocking function would not affect commands preceeding it.
Bascially, what I'm trying to emulate is there is a statue in a room. When the character gives a certain command to the statue it's face changes into something else and gives you some information. I am using the object as it's face. I am happy to hear alternative approaches to this scene as well as answers to the above problem.
Thank you!
That's probably because the screen wasn't refreshed and the Display() blocked it, try adding a Wait() in between and see if it helps:
if (<global variable> == 0) {
oPohn.Visible = true;
Wait(1);
display("some text");
}
Thanks for the help! This worked perfectly! I didn't think that the message would block the screen refresh.