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[vadbag]

Unfortunately, the problem still exists. 
This time I didn't go to the second scene at all, I just was clicking in different places on the screen quite actively and when I stopped the actor wouldn't play the random animations.
Is it a bug? 

[vadbag]

 

So, nobody can help me?

[metamorphium]

Did you actually try to put something like Game.Msg("Test"); inside of that idle time loop
so you can make propper diagnostics why is not called what you are looking for?

[metamorphium]

btw. this line looks quite suspicious to me.

IdleStartTime = actor.Ready;

[vadbag]

>btw. this line looks quite suspicious to me: IdleStartTime = actor.Ready;

Originally, it was IdleStartTime = Game.CurrentTime; And I can't remember now why I changed that 

Just changed it back, so far works well, but I'll continue testing, and If there'll be any problem I'll try Game.Msg("Test");

Thank you very much for your time and your help! 

[vadbag]

 

Hmm. The same thing. Tried Game.Msg("Test"); Basically at some point the script just stops running. In the debug mode I see 8 Running scripts in the beginning, and when idle.script stops I have only 7 scripts.

What I can't understand is why it stops. 
Any idea, anybody?

[vadbag]

Some news. I have idle.script as a separate file, so I thought that I should try to put the idle.script code inside my actor script. In my actor script I had footstep sounds code. So, I added idle script code and ran the game. After some time of active mouse clicking my actor script stopped running. I think there is either something wrong in the idle.script code that stops it and this "something" is linked to active mouse clicking, or it is a bug in WME. 

Any idea?

[vadbag]

I think, I found out what is wrong with the script. 

As you can see:

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         switch(Random(1, 7))
             {
               case 1: actor.TurnTo(DI_DOWN);
                   actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\01\stand.sprite");
                   actor.Direction = DI_DOWN;
                   break;

I use "actor.TurnTo" and it has the same problem as when I was using "actor.PlayAnim". Thanks to Mnemonic for telling me to change this to "actor.PlayAnimAsync"  . The problem occur If the player clicks the mouse while the actor turns. Thus, I desided to use "actor.TurnToAsync". However, now the actor doesn't wait until turning animation is finished and plays random animation. So, turning animation is unnoticeable. I tried to overcome this with adding Sleep(40); 40 is the time required for playing two turn sprites.

Now my code looks like this:

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         switch(Random(1, 7))
             {
               case 1: actor.TurnToAsync(DI_DOWN);
                   Sleep(40);
                   actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\01\stand.sprite");
                   actor.Direction = DI_DOWN;
                   break;

  What do you think about this new script? Might I improve it in any way?

[Mnemonic]

I was thinking about it, and I think a clean solution would be the following:

Divide the code into two parts, one part will manage the idle state, it will run in the endless loop, count the time etc. When the idle condition is met, it will trigger an "idle" event in the actor (actor.ApplyEvent("idle");). The on "idle" handler will do the actual stuff with walking, turning, playing animations etc.
The advantage would be that you could use the normal GoTo, PlayAnim, TurnTo methods, because whenver the idle action is interrupted by the player, only the on "idle" thread will be terminated, and the managing thread will continue running.

I hope that makes some sense. I didn't actually test it, but it should work.

[vadbag]

Thank you, I got your Idea, but I didn't quite understand what I change.

I tried this

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         switch(Random(1, 7))
             {
               case 1: actor.ApplyEvent("idle1"); break;
               case 2: actor.ApplyEvent("idle2"); break;
               case 3: actor.ApplyEvent("idle3"); break;
               case 4: actor.ApplyEvent("idle4"); break;
               case 5: actor.GoToAsync(Random (1,800), Random(1,600));
               break;
               case 6: actor.GoToAsync(Random (1,800), Random(1,600));
               break;
               case 7: actor.GoToAsync(Random (1,800), Random(1,600));
               break;
             }

and it didn't work. Then I tried this:

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      if(!IsIdle)
         {
          // actor enters idle state
          IsIdle = true;
          IdleStartTime = Game.CurrentTime;
          }
       else if(Game.CurrentTime - IdleStartTime > 500) // is the actor idle for 10 seconds?
         {
         actor.ApplyEvent("idle"); break;
         }

Doesn't work either. 

Which part exactly should I transfer to my actor's script under on "idle"?

Thanx!

[Mnemonic]

I meant something like this:

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#include "scripts\base.inc"

var IsIdle = false;
var IdleStartTime = 0;

while(true) // endless loop
{
  if(actor.Ready) // is the actor doing something
  {
    if(!IsIdle)
    {
      // actor enters idle state
      IsIdle = true;
      IdleStartTime = Game.CurrentTime;
    }
    else if(Game.CurrentTime - IdleStartTime > 5000) // is the actor idle for 5 seconds
    {
      IdleStartTime = Game.CurrentTime;
      actor.ApplyEvent("idle");
    }
  }
  else IsIdle = false; // actor is busy; set IsIdle to false
  Sleep(100); // wait for 100 milliseconds
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
on "idle"
{
  // do some idle processing here
  actor.Talk("Yawn!");
  actor.GoTo(Random(0, 1000), Random(0, 600));
}


[vadbag]

 

Mnemonic, you are great! 

Everything works! Thak you very much indeed!

[vadbag]

Hi!

Is there a possibility to preload those random animation sprites?  I'm asking because before a random animation is played the game freezes for a second, obviously to load the animation.

Thanx! 

[Mnemonic]

You can preload the animations by assigning them to some "ghost" entity(ies) and preloading those entities into memory witg Game.LoadEntity().

[vadbag]

OK, I did what you suggested.  I added Game.LoadEntity(); in game.script.  Now I got a "corpse" hanging down from the ceiling in every scene  because my preloaded "ghosts" entities are visible... It would be great, if I was making a horror game,    but I'm not! How can I hide this "gost"?