Stop ShakeScreenBackground

[barefoot]

Hi

When the player gets to a certain point I want to stop ShakeScreenBackground (which is in Rep Exe).. I have tried ShakeScreenBackground=false and also tried setting ShakeScreenBackground (4, 10, 0);
so it's length is 0 but to no avail..

It is set to happen after main player uses inventory and runs to point B where another character appears. An object stops animating up and down (thats ok) and then  ShakeScreenBackground supposed to stop. Afterwhich a dialog opens (thats ok)..

It mainly because it makes dialog harder to read when shake screening..

Here is my code from when an object stops animation (ok to this point)

Code: ags

// This bit runs ok
 
 object[0].StopAnimating();

// Problem (says invalid perimeter)

 ShakeScreenBackground (-2, 1, 0); 

 //  Runs ok from here

 object[1].SetView(15);
 object[1].Animate(0, 3, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eBackwards);
 cwizard.SayAt(60, 66, 200,"That is my doing Magrid. I'm going to toy with you before you meet your doom!! I have a question for you!!!");
 object[1].SetView(15);
 cwizard2.FaceLocation(282, 144);

 cwizard2.Say("Eh!!");
 object[1].Animate(0, 3, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eBackwards);

 cwizard.SayAt(60, 66, 230,"So, you've overcome my pressing contraption! Answer me this is you want to take a step closer to me Magrid! Get it wrong and I will send you back!!!");
 object[1].SetView(15);
 cwizard2.Say("Back???!! What is it you ask?");
 object[1].Animate(0, 3, eRepeat, eNoBlock, eBackwards);

 cwizard.SayAt(60,66,230,"You are in a cold house in the winter. It is dark. You have one match. There is a candle and there is a wood burning stove. Which do you light first?");
 object[1].SetView(15);

  dquestion1.Start();

Any hints...

barefoot

[TomatoesInTheHead]

-2 is not a valid delay parameter, 2 is the minimum.

I see how one can be easily confused by the manual here:

DELAY specifies the 'shakiness' of the shake - 2 is the lowest you can pass for this, and will create the most shaky screen.

Looks like it says "-2", but that's actually a dash in the sentence. Maybe that dash would better be changed to a semicolon or something.

But ShakeScreenBackground(..., ..., 0) will not work to end a screenshake if you start it again in every gamecycle with RepExec, you have to (additionally) use some flag there to not start it again.

something along the lines of

Code: ags

//above rep_ex and other function
bool isShaking = true;

//in rep_ex
if (isShaking)
  ShakeScreenBackground(4, 10, 40); //shake it another second

//in the function that stops the shaking
isShaking = false;
ShakeScreenBackground(4, 10, 0); //stop current shake

[barefoot]

Hi

yes, should be:

DELAY specifies the 'shakiness' of the shake. 2 is the lowest you can pass for this, and will create the most shaky screen.

Bool true/false seems the way..

Anyhow, thanks a lot TomatosInTheHead

barefoot