Slideshow

[julesmig]

Hello everyone!

I'm making my first game ever, and want to start the game with a image sequence full s as cutscene, like a slideshow. There's no need for control as "back" or "next", I just want to automatically show the images and then move to a room.

I thought of animating backgrounds, but I don't know to tell AGS not to repeat the animated background loop and after X seconds move to a different room. Is there a way to do this?

[Khris]

In room_Load():

Code: ags

  SetBackgroundFrame(0);
  SetTimer(1, 5 * GetGameSpeed());  // 5 seconds

In room_RepExec():

Code: ags

  if (IsTimerExpired(1)) {
    int cf = GetBackgroundFrame();
    if (cf < 4) {
      SetBackgroundFrame(cf + 1);
      SetTimer(1, 5 * GetGameSpeed());
    }
    else player.ChangeRoom(2);
  }

[julesmig]

In room_Load():

Code: ags

  SetBackgroundFrame(0);
  SetTimer(1, 5 * GetGameSpeed());  // 5 seconds

In room_RepExec():

Code: ags

  if (IsTimerExpired(1)) {
    int cf = GetBackgroundFrame();
    if (cf < 4) {
      SetBackgroundFrame(cf + 1);
      SetTimer(1, 5 * GetGameSpeed());
    }
    else player.ChangeRoom(2);
  }

Hello Khris, thanks for the assistance!

It kind of works, but at the end of the animation I get the error "SetBackgroundFrame: invalid frame number specified" on line "SetBackgroundFrame(cf + 1);" . What could this mean?

[Khris]

If you are using less than 5 frames you need to decrease the number in line 3 of the second snippet.
Say you're using just three, that's frame #0, frame #1 and frame #2. This means you only want to switch to the next frame if the current frame is < 2.

(also, please don't quote the entire previous post; there's a reply button at the bottom of the thread)