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Unfortunately that wasn't the problem. I temporarily disabled the while loop but the game was still damn slow...

I'm working on a fighting scene where the player fights against an AI character. Scriptwise everything seems to work fine but if the character is standing or walking near the enemy the game REALLY slows down and it's almost impossible to play. Since this can hardly be a matter of my PCs memory or anything similar I guess that certain parts of my script are written too badly for letting the game run smoothly.

Well, here's the script for the enemy movement (which is the only relevant part I guess). It would be nice if somebody could take the time and go through it and then let me know if the script could be improved in a way to make the game run normally.

Code: ags

//    --------- aiming ---------

if((character[1].View==1)||(character[1].View==4)){
if((gzielx==character[1].x)&&(gziely==character[1].y)&&(gziel==false)){
 a=Random(20);
  if ((character[1].x>=cEgo.x+100)&&(a>=10)){            // to the right of the player
    gzielx=cEgo.x+130;gziely=cEgo.y;gziel=true;
  }
  if ((character[1].x<cEgo.x+100)&&(a>=10)){              // to the left of the player
    gzielx=cEgo.x-130;gziely=cEgo.y;gziel=true;
  }
  
  if a<10){
    while ((Region.GetAtRoomXY(gzielx, gziely) != region[1])){            // somwhere
      gzielx=30+Random(700);gziely=300+Random(270);gziel=true;
    }
  }
}   
}

//    --------- moving ---------

if (gziel){
  gziel=false;
  character[1].Walk(gzielx, gziely);     
}

if((gzielx>=character[1].x-2)&&(gzielx<=character[1].x+2)){gzielx=character[1].x;}
if((gziely>=character[1].y-2)&&(gziely<=character[1].y+2)){gziely=character[1].y;}

//    --------- strikes ---------

if((character[1].View==1)||(character[1].View==4)){

  if((character[1].y>cEgo.y-15)&&(character[1].y<cEgo.y+15)){
   a=Random(1);
    if((character[1].x>cEgo.x+60)&&(character[1].x<cEgo.x+160)){ 
      gzielx=character[1].x;gziely=character[1].y;
      character[1].FaceCharacter(cEgo);
      if (a==0) {gschlag="links"; character[1].ChangeView(2);}   // normal strike left
      if (a==1) {gschlag="links"; character[1].ChangeView(3);}}   // upper strike left
    if((character[1].x<cEgo.x-60)&&(character[1].x>cEgo.x-160)){ 
      gzielx=character[1].x;gziely=character[1].y;
      character[1].FaceCharacter(cEgo);
      if (a==0) {gschlag="rechts"; character[1].ChangeView(2);}  // normal strike right
      if (a==1) {gschlag="rechts"; character[1].ChangeView(3);}} // upper strike right
  }
}
//--------- normal view after strike animation

if((character[1].View==2)||(character[1].View==3)&&(character[1].Frame==4)){
  character[1].ChangeView(1);
}
// ----- character looks either left or right ------------

if ((!player.Moving)&&((character[1].View==1)||(character[1].View==4))) { 
  if (character[1].Loop == 1 && character[1].NormalView != LEFT) character[1].ChangeView(LEFT);
  if (character[1].Loop == 2 && character[1].NormalView != RIGHT) character[1].ChangeView(RIGHT);
}
// -------- strike animations are played -------------

if(gschlag!=""){ 
  if(gschlag=="links"){character[1].Animate(1, 2,  eOnce,  eNoBlock);}
  if(gschlag=="rechts"){character[1].Animate(2, 2, eOnce,  eNoBlock);}
  gschlag="";
}

you say put the

Code: ags

character.Visible = false 

at the beginning, where would be the beginning

Just put it in the room's beforefadein-section.

[...] and would the code apply to all 6 characters, and what is the code to select one character to appear and become the main character

Well, the command is for one character only but you can just write it for all 6 characters. The code for one character to appear is the exact same, just set it to "true" instead of "false"...

To make a character the player character use character.SetAsPlayer();

EDIT:

You don't have to make 6 characters. Just use ONE player character and change its look assigning one of six views to it using Character.ChangeView(view).

Can you post the relevant script where the variable is used?

And did you create the variable via the global variable's pane?

i just need to now remove the class select GUI that appears first and remove the characters that appear onscreen before the character is selected.

In the GUI's panel you can change the appearance and e.g. select "normal, initially off". As for the character: Just set character.Visible to false in the beginning and to true when a class or the gender is selected.

Maybe it's just me or do some marketting campaigns take people for absolute fools?

Isn't that what marketing is all about? Especially TV- and radio-Ads....

And I really don't see why I should back up my entire harddisk. I've never had a situation where I suddenly lost it all.

No-one has a hard disk die... until they do

Exactly. I never thought that my hard disc would die and that's why I didn't make backups. Yeah, and now I've lost everything and suddenly can't understand why I never made backups.

It's a  flying robot equipped with sensitive antennas, two grapplers and a triple missile launcher. Beware!

Well, I never really took backups of my stuff. Once I saved my GiP onto my extern hard drive but unfortunately deleted it again some day. Well, and a month ago my PC's hard drive crashed and A LOT of stuff I worked on is gone, not only my AGS game.

From now I'll burn a CD once in a while with all my important stuff and as long as I'm working on my new AGS project regularly I'm backing up the game every 2-3 days. I won't let something like this happen EVER again.

Also do you think the 2nd largest pyramid looks odd in its angle?

Yes!

Cool, thank you both.

I know how to save text to an extern .txt file and I know how to save ints but is it possible to save ints as a written text? I want to know how the NPCs in my RPG develop throughout the game and it would be very handy if I could just look at a saved textfile after playing to see the character values written down.

WriteRawLine(string text) doesn't let you include variables and WriteInt can't be used with a textfile, so is there any other way?

thank you!
I found it XD just goes to show how  careful you have to be in AGS, I forgot 1 bracket and it screwed my whole game up ><"

This has nothing to do with AGS but rather with programming in general.

Post the error message and the relevant script in the beginners technical forum.

Like I said above, I think they got resized when I uploaded to flickr to post them on here. Normally I use photobucket but it just hasnt been working for me lately. The backgrounds are really 640X480.

Just use this site to upload your pics.

he don't get a trophy

Trophies weren't supplied so no one's getting one.  Every competition is different.

Also, please don't start several threads with the same content. And note that capital letters don't make the thread look important.

sorry it was more of an accident that I posted twice

Okay then. Some newbies think that they'll get the answers quicker if the start more than one thread.

Also, please don't start several threads with the same content. And note that capital letters don't make the thread look important.

Don't wait for me, I won't be able to post an entry today...

Can you post the whole room 3 script? And did you have a look at line 138 and everything relevant before that?