Pause the game, pause the timers
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Hi, I have some delay timers for how often a gun can fire.If mousehit(1) If time>gun_timer+2000 fire_gun() gun_timer=time EndIf EndIf When I pause the game the gun can fire again straight away (in game time) so how do I put the timer on pause? |
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| 1) Every game I've ever written (In 20 years or so!) has had a game_clock variable. 2) Pauseing games is one of those things that is never as easy as it seems. 3) I don't actually understand your problem so I'm not going to be very helpful. |
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| Have you tried updating the gun_timer variable to the current time after unpausing the game. |
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| onPause store current time onUnpause offset = time - stored time add to all timers like the one above |
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| ah yeh zombiewoof got it, say gun_timer is 1000 and time is 1100, *game is paused* pause_time=1100 *game is unpaused* new_time=2000 offset=2000-1100=900 gun_timer=1900 which means there is still 100 milliseconds til the next firing time. thanks |
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| Funny how some questions/problems open my eyes on other things... :) Thanks guys ! |
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| What I do is to use a relative game timer that's updated by the amount of time taken by the previous loop at the start of each new loop. eg. ; Untested code. ; 'game_time' holds the time value which should be used with all pausable time_out routines. Global game_time Global old_time Global millisecs_time Global time_out old_time = MilliSecs() Repeat millisecs_time = MilliSecs() the_time_taken = millisecs_time - old_time game_time = game_time + the_time_taken old_time = millisecs_time If game_time > time_out time_out = time_out + 1000 EndIf If KeyHit( pause_key ) ; -- Process pause event -- old_time = MilliSecs() ; Re-initialize 'old_time' after the pause. EndIf Until KeyHit( 1 ) |
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| You have to be careful if you're using 3d tweening code, it stalls until the tweening code catches up. |
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| Ah yeah I am using tweening code and the timer thing didnt work, because now I can fire continuously with no delay - oops. I dont have a clue what Axemans code does either arrgghh!!!! If KeyHit(57) FlushMouse If paused=no paused=yes pause_time=time Else ;set timers offset_time=time-pause_time For s.ship=Each ship s\launch_timer=offset_time Next paused=no EndIf endif am i doing something wrong? |
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