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| Author: | PhantomAGN [ Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Rather Puzzled |
Hey all. This script is intended to spawn a particle once every 200ms, for 24 iterations. I have defined 24 MOPixels, each with a different ScreenEffect glow. Together, in series, they should act like an animation (and, I hope, a very good one at that.) However, the code is not working, and in fact now that I have a while loop, it actually crashes the game. http://pastebin.com/m158f692f Looking for suggestions, hand slapping, etc. And/Or a better way to animate glows. |
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| Author: | Abdul Alhazred [ Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rather Puzzled |
You seem to have misunderstood how a while-loop work (quite common actually). Your loop won't end until 25*200ms have passed. I suspect that since the loop can not end the engine can not progress and therefore time will "stop". If you want to spawn pixels while the counter is below a certain value, you should do this in the update function. For example like this: http://pastebin.com/d7be0f0aa (this code has not been tested) |
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| Author: | PhantomAGN [ Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rather Puzzled |
Eureka! You're absolutely right, and now I know to not bother coding late at night! You saved my "animation by glows," thanks! I'm really hoping that this method is useful to the community, though I suspect that it would not be particularly hard to do the same thing with an emitter, entirely in ini code. I just hate ini, and love lua. Edit: Sadly, this line is out of syntax, or CC's lua does not support formatting. local glow = CreateMOPixel(string.format("Glow %02d" self.GlowCounter)) EditEdit: What is this, a liveblog of PhantomAGN's lua failings? It appears that, as you even used, concatenation is done with a "..". Well then, disregard the above. EditEditEdit: IT WORKS. Woo hoo, off to play with my new animated glowing explosions. EditEditEditEditEdit: The glows act as if they were out of palette, and I was certain they did not have that constraint! Black -> Green, Blue -> Black, etc. As always, my code works, and nothing else does. |
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| Author: | TheLastBanana [ Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rather Puzzled |
What strength do you have the glows set to? By that I mean the StartStrength and EndStrength, defined in the INI. |
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| Author: | PhantomAGN [ Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rather Puzzled |
The base looks like this, and then all the frames are CopyOf. EffectStartTime = 0 EffectStopTime = 50 EffectStartStrength = 1 EffectStopStrength = 1 EffectAlwaysShows = 1 I've experimented with the strengths, but it's not something that I seem to be able to fix that way. I've also moved this part of the conversation to here: http://forums.datarealms.com/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=17423 Just because it's not lua-related anymore. |
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