Slowing things down.

[Dko]

I need a little help figuring out how to do something. Right now I have two simmilar problems that I can't think of how to solve.
1. I have multiple damage pops happening in my battle system but they show up too fast and you only get to see the last one.
2. I have the player entering multiple commands but these are being received with no pause in between so that I get the same command for all.

Could someone help me figure out how I would code the pause I need for these two problems? Here some bits of my code that might help understand what im doing.

# Damage
      if @battler.damage_pop
        for i in (0..@battler.damage.length)
          print @battler.damage
          if @battler.damage[i] != nil
            damage(@battler.damage[i], @battler.critical)
            @battler.damage[i] = nil
            @battler.critical = false
          end
        end        
        @battler.damage_pop = false
      end

# If C button was pressed
    if Input.trigger?(Input::C) or Input.trigger?(Input::Y) or Input.trigger?(Input::X) or Input.trigger?(Input::Z)
      # Play decision SE
      $game_system.se_play($data_system.decision_se)
      # Set action
      if @active_battler.is_a?(Game_Actor)
        @num_attacks = @active_battler.stam
        
      else
        @num_attacks = 0
      end
      # Set each attacks strength
      for i in (0..@num_attacks)
        
        if Input.trigger?(Input::C) or Input.trigger?(Input::Y)
          $atk_power[i] = "MED"
        end
        if Input.trigger?(Input::X)
          $atk_power[i] = "STR"
        end
        if Input.trigger?(Input::Z)
          $atk_power[i] = "WEAK"
        end
      end

 

[Dko]

Maybe someone could let me know where/how Ccoa's side view battle system causes its pauses for input?

 

[knmt]

Your first problem : You see the last one because you use a "for" in just the time of one frame , you should make a new function drawing the damage and allow it to be updated each frame , and each damage number will pops out in each frame .
Second one : Again , don't use for . Let frame handle this , make another function ( optional ) in which you set a variable equal to the current ordinal attack number of the attack of your character ( or use a global variable ), then put everything you need after choosing a type of attack ( med , str ,weak ) here , this will make it wait for your input and then deal the damage right away if you want it to .Make sure you put the If Input. blah blah in an updated section.

e.g. :

def choose(type)
$atk_power[$current] = @type
Increase $current...
end
def update
if Input.trigger?(Input::C) or Input.trigger?(Input::Y)
          choose("MED")
        else
        if Input.trigger?(Input::X)
          choose("STR")
        else
        if Input.trigger?(Input::Z)
        choose("WEAK")
        end
end

After your character's multiple attacks , return everything to its initial form.

Hope this helps you out , you can read more about frame in some tutorials here I guess...

P.S : Arre you planing on making a Chrono Cross game-like ?

 

[Dko]

Thanks for the help but someone was able to show me an already completed bit of code thats very similar to what I want done and much easier to implement then what I was going for. :3

 

[knmt]

okay just stick with what you feel is best for your game.

 

[Dko]

Okie. Please close this topic

 

[Raziel]

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Thank you!