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seppeEnZigie

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Posted: 13th Apr 2012 20:23

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Hi im making a 2d shooter and i need a little bit of delay between the zombies to so i made this code but it doesn't work because the hole game slows down
here is the code:

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void zombie::spawn()
{	srand(time(0));
	
	for(int f = 1;f<11;f++)
	{
		
		Zid = Zid+1;
		rndm = rand()%4;
		if (rndm == 0)
		{
			dbSprite(Zid,10,10,5);
		}
		if (rndm == 1)
		{
			dbSprite(Zid,620,20,5);
		}
		if (rndm == 2)
		{
			dbSprite(Zid,20,460,5);
		}
		if (rndm == 3)
		{
			dbSprite(Zid,620,460,5);
		}
		dbWait(1);
	}

I hope someone can help me
thanks

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Mister Fuzzy

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Posted: 14th Apr 2012 23:33

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dbWait() pauses the WHOLE game - no more commands are proccessed while the system is waiting. If it's a spawn delay you want, use a integer timer, that goes up by ONE every loop. When the value is equal to something (like 500), spawn a zombie and reset the timer to zero (Even though I said "timer," don't assume that you should use dbTimer(): That is completely different.).

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seppeEnZigie

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Posted: 15th Apr 2012 01:48

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Quote: "dbWait() pauses the WHOLE game - no more commands are proccessed while the system is waiting. If it's a spawn delay you want, use a integer timer, that goes up by ONE every loop. When the ..."

Oh oke
and I know what you mean with timer im not that stupid

thanks man!

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