Complications with GetSecondsPassed

Tea.EarlGrey.Hot. · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:47 am

I'm not new to scripting, but I can not for the life of me get this timer to work. I have tried it about a dozen different ways. Right now here's how I have it :

Code:

begin EG_SpinWheel

short button
short messageOn
short state
float timer

set state to 0

if ( MenuMode == 1 )
   return
endif

set timer to ( timer + GetSecondsPassed )


if ( OnActivate == 1 )
        MessageBox, "Spin thread", "Marshmerrow", "Kresh", "Exit"
   set messageOn to 1
endif

if ( messageOn == 1 )
   set button to GetButtonPressed

   if ( button >= 0 )
      set messageOn to 0
   endif   

   if ( button == 0 ) 
      if ( player->GetItemCount "ingred_marshmerrow_01" >= 5 )
         player->RemoveItem "ingred_marshmerrow_01", 5
         player->AddItem "EG_MarshmerrowThread", 1
         MessageBox "You begin to spin thread from marshmerrow."
         PlaySound "Item Misc Up"
         set state to 1

      else 
         MessageBox "You don't have the resources."
      endif
   
   elseif ( button == 1  ) 
       if ( player->GetItemCount "ingred_kresh_fiber_01" >= 5 )
         player->RemoveItem "ingred_kresh_fiber_01", 5
         player->AddItem "EG_KreshThread", 1
         MessageBox "You begin to spin thread from kresh fiber"
         PlaySound "Item Misc Up"
         set state to 1         

      else 
         MessageBox "You don't have the resources."
   endif

   else
      return

   endif
endif

if ( state == 1 )
   if ( timer > 10 )
      PlaySound "Item Misc Up"
      set state to 0
   endif
endif

end EG_SpinWheel

I created the base script and it worked perfectly just as expected. Then I decided I would try adding a delay before the player receives the spool. At first I had the timer logic inside the first button with the sound and additem in the timer check. It executed all the code except what came after the timer check (so it took the marshmerrow but never played sound and added spool to inv)

Since then I've tried shifting things around adding things solving it differently. I changed it to rely on the state variable a few tries ago... I checked the the other scripts with timers in game a million times, checked wiki documentation, googled around. None of it worked!

I'm starting to wonder if maybe the MessageBox or buttons create problems with GetSecondsPassed method? Or maybe I overlooked something and can't see it because I'm too tangled up. >.>

Wolfborn · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:18 pm

The problem is the "set state to 0" line at the top, right after the variable declarations. The timer code only executes when state = 1, but you're resetting state to 0 every frame, so the timer code only executes for one frame and then stops because state has been reset to 0. Take that line out and it should work.

Mind you, all this will do is take the player's ingredients, add the thread spool, and then play a sound 10 seconds later (and maybe not even that long--the way it's written the timer is incrementing while waiting for a button to be pressed). It doesn't delay the player getting the spool. Given what you've written, here's how I would do it (just off the top of my head--there might be a more elegant way to write this):

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I think that should work and do what you want it to do.

Edit: tightened up the timer code

Tea.EarlGrey.Hot. · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2017 6:01 pm

Quote:

but you're resetting state to 0 every frame

Oh, thanks! I didn't know that it resets every frame, thought it was an initial assignment type thing!

and I know that it would only play the sound 10 seconds later, I had it the way I had wanted the first times I wrote it, but got tired of rearranging all that code just for it not to work, so I only did the sound as a test :P

EDIT:

I got too used to regular programming! Reading your above quote made everything click instantly. Here's the script now, working perfectly. Now just to come up with more things to make thread from... Thanks again :D

Code:

begin EG_SpinWheel

short button
short messageOn
short state
float timer


if ( MenuMode == 1 )
   return
endif

if ( OnActivate == 1 )
   MessageBox, "Spin thread", "Marshmerrow", "Kresh", "Exit"
   set messageOn to 1
endif

if ( messageOn == 1 )
   set button to GetButtonPressed

   if ( button >= 0 )
      set messageOn to 0
   endif   

   if ( button == 0 ) 
      if ( player->GetItemCount "ingred_marshmerrow_01" >= 5 )
         player->RemoveItem "ingred_marshmerrow_01", 5
         MessageBox "You begin to spin thread from marshmerrow."
         DisablePlayerControls
         set state to 1

      else 
         MessageBox "You don't have the resources."
      endif
   
   elseif ( button == 1  ) 
       if ( player->GetItemCount "ingred_kresh_fiber_01" >= 5 )
         player->RemoveItem "ingred_kresh_fiber_01", 5
         MessageBox "You begin to spin thread from kresh fiber"
         DisablePlayerControls
         set state to 1         

      else 
         MessageBox "You don't have the resources."
   endif

   else
      return

   endif
endif

if ( state == 1 )
   set timer to ( timer + GetSecondsPassed )
   
   if ( timer > 3 )
      if ( button == 0 )
         player->AddItem "EG_MarshmerrowThread", 1
      elseif ( button == 1 )
         player->AddItem "EG_KreshThread", 1
      endif

      PlaySound "Item Misc Up"
      EnablePlayerControls
      set state to 0
                set timer to 0
   endif
endif

end EG_SpinWheel

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