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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 15, 2006, 04:25:02 PM »

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! 

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Technical forum / Problem with sound package

« on: March 15, 2006, 03:13:56 PM »

Hello.
In my game I have "sound" folder as a separate package. The folder contains subfolders "music" and "sfx". When I run the game from the project manager everything's OK. But when I compile the game and then run it there is no sound, although the sound.dcp exists.

How can I solve this problem?
Thanx!

EDITED: Just noticed that the compiled game also uses Arial font instead of one that I assigned. 

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 14, 2006, 08:03:06 PM »

 

Mnemonic, you are great! 

Everything works! Thak you very much indeed!

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 13, 2006, 11:12:54 PM »

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!

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 12, 2006, 11:42:34 PM »

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?

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 12, 2006, 09:18:38 PM »

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?

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 12, 2006, 08:56:54 PM »

 

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?

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 12, 2006, 08:38:29 PM »

>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! 

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 12, 2006, 06:15:39 PM »

 

So, nobody can help me?

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Technical forum / Re: How do I create THEORA video files

« on: March 12, 2006, 04:48:44 PM »

I guess it depends on the type of compression of the initial file. Some of them convert perfectly, whereas others produce errors.

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 12, 2006, 02:50:08 PM »

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? 

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 12, 2006, 02:01:10 PM »

Thank you for your answer! 

1)I know about 1 second  I just put it for the testing purposes, so that I don't wait 10 sec until the actor starts using the script.
2)I'll try GoToAsync.

I put sleep calls temporalily, util I make the random animations. So far they consist of one frame, so I wanted the game to waint for some time. The same with walking. Without the sleep() calls the actor just goes to a point and then immediately performes another animation.

After I posted my problem here, I tested the game several times and found out that it's not just returning to the previous scene. The problem happens at different time during the game. Sometimes I return to the first scene 5 or 6 times and everything works OK.

I think that the script gets interrupted somehow during the game. But I'll try GoToAsync, and see If it helps.

Thanx!

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 12, 2006, 01:22:25 AM »

Hi again!

Everything was working just fine until I created a second scene. Now when I start the game the random animation script works, then I go to the secod scene, where it also works. However, if I return to the first scene, the script stops working quite often. 

Here is the full code that I'm using:

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#include "scripts\base.inc"

var IsIdle = false;
var IdleStartTime = 0;

while(true) // endless loop
  {
   if(actor.Ready && Game.Interactive == true) // is the actor doing something?
     {
      if(!IsIdle)
         {
          // actor enters idle state
          IsIdle = true;
          IdleStartTime = Game.CurrentTime;
          }
       else if(Game.CurrentTime - IdleStartTime > 1000) // is the actor idle for 10 seconds?
         {
         IdleStartTime = actor.Ready;
         switch(Random(1, 7))
             {
               case 1: actor.TurnTo(DI_DOWN);
                   actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\01\stand.sprite");
                   actor.Direction = DI_DOWN;
                   Sleep(1000);
                   break;
               case 2: actor.TurnTo(DI_RIGHT);
                   actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\02\stand.sprite");
                   actor.Direction = DI_RIGHT;
                   Sleep(1000);
                   break;
               case 3: actor.TurnTo(DI_LEFT);
                   actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\03\stand.sprite");
                   actor.Direction = DI_LEFT;
                   Sleep(1000);
                   break;
               case 4: actor.TurnTo(DI_UP);
                   actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\04\stand.sprite");
                   actor.Direction = DI_UP;
                   Sleep(1000);
                   break;
               case 5: actor.GoTo(Random (1,800), Random(1,600));
               Sleep(1000);
               break;
               case 6: actor.GoTo(Random (1,800), Random(1,600));
               Sleep(1000);
               break;
               case 7: actor.GoTo(Random (1,800), Random(1,600));
               Sleep(1000);
               break;
             }
         }
    }
    else IsIdle = false; // actor is busy; set IsIdle to false
    Sleep(100); // wait for 100 milliseconds
 }

Can anybody suggest how to avoid this problem?

Thanx!

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Technical forum / Re: Video entites, Menu music & Random Idle Animations

« on: March 11, 2006, 04:02:42 PM »

Thanks indeed! Works well! 

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Technical forum / Re: 2 q-s

« on: March 11, 2006, 03:12:01 PM »

Dear Mnemonic,

Just one more thing. In my random animations the actor turns to different directions, but after the animation is finished, he returns to the initial direction. How can I make him to stay in the directions of the random animation?

I tried this:

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switch(Random(1, 6))
 {
 case 1: actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\01\01.sprite") && actor.Direction = DI_RIGHT; break;
 case 2: actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\02\02.sprite") && actor.Direction = DI_DOWN; break;
 case 3: actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\03\03.sprite") && actor.Direction = DI_LEFT; break;
 case 4: actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\04\04.sprite") && actor.Direction = DI_UP; break;
 case 5: actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\05\05.sprite") && actor.Direction = DI_LEFT; break;
 case 6: actor.PlayAnimAsync("actors\sharik\idle\06\06.sprite") && actor.Direction = DI_DOWN; break;
 }

But it doesn't work The wme just crashes.
How can I do it?