Wait, Flash, And Others.

[Fallen]

Hello Ppl!, I'm here to ask some questions:

Question I: About Waiting

I need to know how to make the script wait before going into the next line.
I used to do this:

@wait = 50

def something

if @wait > 0
@wait -= 1
else
do_something
end

but this ended up being to long, and therefore couldn't be applied to some cases.

So...How can I wait some time before going into the next line?

Question II: Flashing Screen!

color = Color.new(255, 255, 255, 255)
duration = 100
$game_screen.start_flash(color, duration)

I'm trying to do this work for my script, but the screen simply won't flash, what am I doing wrong? BTW, it's on a loop.

More Question Coming Soon (;

-Fallen.

 

[Atoa]

if it on XP you add these methods to the script:

  def update_basic

    Graphics.update

    Input.update

    $game_system.update

    $game_screen.update

    @spriteset.update if @spriteset != nil

    @message_window.update if @message_window != nil

  end

  def wait(duration)

    for i in 0...duration do update_basic end

  end

then add in the code the line "wait(x)" to wait x frames.

for the screen flashing, you need also to update the screen, try addind the wait command after the flash line.

I recommend to add this code to an scene, since i didn't test it on other classes.

 

[Fallen]

oh thank you, Never thought about doing that, lol.

BTW, the screen flash still doesn't work... =(
perhaps I must mess with viewports...

 

[Glitchfinder]

For screen flash, you actually have to make sure that $game_screen.update is also being called every frame, so that the flash will actually show.

As to the wait method, what problems are you having. With a little creative scripting, nearly any case can use similar methods to what you posted, as long as the the wait count is being called in some kind of update method. (One that gets called every frame)

Oh, and for setting the number of frames to wait, you want to use this:

frames = seconds * Graphics.frame_rate

In that code, seconds is the number of seconds to wait, and Graphics.frame_rate is the target number of frames per second.