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[Marek]

I'm trying to make a sort of limited help system, in that the game tracks the time and if the player hasn't done something after 5 minutes, the character will give a hint.

Could someone supply an example of a loop for such a thing, and tell me where I should probably insert it? I haven't done a loop before yet in this project so it would be great if I had a template 

What I'm trying to do is this:
- At the start of scene, the game stores the time in a variable
- When the game time is 5 minutes later, it checks if inventory has object "X"
- If not, then actor.Talk("Hey, maybe I should check out object X!");

Muchos gracias!

[Mnemonic]

Create a new script file with the following content and attach it to the scene in SceneEdit:

[code]
#include "scripts\base.inc"

Sleep(5 * 60000); // sleep for 5 minutes

if(!actor.HasItem("X"))
{

[Marek]

Great! However, it shows an error and I can't debug properly. For some reason the log is not being updated. Do you know how that could happen? It stopped logging sometime yesterday.

[Mnemonic]

The log file is only generated when "Debug mode" is tured on in ProjectMan.

[Marek]

Doh! Thanks.

[Mnemonic]

Oops, I think I know what the problem is. There should be

#include "scripts\base.inc"

in the beginning of the script, so that the "actor" variable is known. Or did I make some other mistake?

[Marek]

It says there's a syntax error on line 4:

Sleep(2 * 60000); // sleep for 2 minute(s)

if(!actor.HasItem("noise")
{
  // we'd better wait until the actor is ready (i.e. not walking/talking etc.)
  while(!actor.Ready) Sleep(100);
 
  // now he's ready!
  actor.Talk("What's that noise I hear?");
  Game.TakeItem("noise");
}

Adding the include didn't change anything.

[Mnemonic]

It should be:

if(!actor.HasItem("noise"))

(one extra parenthesis). I edited the code immediately after I posted but you were too fast

[Marek]

Bingo. I really need to learn to not just look at the exact line that is referenced in the log.