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Yes! I fixed it. There was a lazy character repositioning via player.ChangeRoom(Same Room, other coords) inside the Firstload function, which the engine recognized as "I have to do room_load after the firstload."

So it's as always what's in front of the monitor.

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No. This didn't solve it. It does exactly the same, even after i deleted the firstload-function.

I am doing exactly the same (player walking to some waypoint, doing stuff until user gets control) in another room and don't have the problem there.

I think I have to analyze the code more intense to solve this. I will post my findings later.

No the Firstload works like a charm (and only at the first time ). I am using it to do a cutscene where an NPC is showing the room to the player. Isn't that, what this function is for? the help document says:

This event occurs AFTER the screen has faded in, so it allows you to display a message describing the scene.

Maybe I should do that introduction in a one time if-prompt at AfterFadeIn instead?

these stuff are just placeholders the t-timer and t2-timer needs a number of course.

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No. This order is correct too. So nobody of you guys had this problem before, that the game fades again after Firstload? Or is it just normal, that the game needs to call room_load again? That would be a real bummer for me but i could live with it.

I am gonna try to repeat it in a blank new room to see if the same thing will happen.

This chickenwalk has to happen in repeatedly_execute_always if you want to do it in the background and therefore you have to write it only non blocking (so no wait-commands).

Here is how I made a similar thing with an NPC walking to a random waypoint x from x= 350 till x=410 , doing something and walking to the next random waypoint x2 to do something and so on...:

Code: ags

//room header
int ranx;
bool start = false;

//Called by setting a SetTimer(6,1); and start = true

function repeatedly_execute_always() 
{
   if (IsTimerExpired(6))
  {
    cGerald.UnlockView();
    if (start == true) 
     {
     ran = Random(60);
     ranx = ran + 350;
     cGerald.Walk(ranx, 160, eNoBlock, eWalkableAreas);
     cGerald.AddWaypoint(ranx, 159);
     SetTimer(6, 200); 
     start = false;
     }
    
    if (cGerald.x == ranx)
     {
     start = true;
     cGerald.LockView(22);
     cGerald.Animate(0, 13, eOnce, eNoBlock); // here you can put your random choice of animations
     SetTimer(6, 400); //this countdown must have at least the lenght of your animation to play so that the NPC walks on after it's done with it.
     }
    }
   }
}

I think you could easily add a random y-coordinate.

Hope that helps

Cheers
Kumpel

Yes I did all that and I can't see any disruptions because of false arrangements of my code. If I do debug and let the game do a debug break at the first room_load command (positioning the player), the game stops as it should before the fade in and again after the firstload, showing me the game calls room_load twice, right?

Is the order of the functions in the room script relevant for this process of calling up a room's initial functions?

My order is:

1    room_Load
2    some custom function to play a cutscene in a later moment of the game
3         FirstLoad
4         AfterFadeIn


I don't know what you mean with

"you have entered room_Load next to the after fadein event, too"

. I didn't call firstload in roomload or otherwise if that's what you suggest.

Cassie u wanna or can I?

There is a new command besides _always?

Could you show us your frame delay in a gif or some YTvid?

If this is just some animation without changing the positions of the characters, i'd say you put an object(or character?) in front of the two characters which view includes the two sprites of the animation as one and make the two characters transparent at that time.

Sure. Just let the game check, if the width of your GUI is bigger than mouse.x-Screenwidth.
if yes, let the GUI popup at GUI.x = mouse.x - GUI_width.

I think that could work ^^