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Karz

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Posted: 6th May 2003 16:45 Edited at: 6th May 2003 23:47

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Hi there, it's me again

I've got a problem when I want my character in my 'third person'-game to do his attack. I want it to perform his attack when I click the mousebutton. The problem is that the animation stops when I don't press the button anymore. Seen the code, that's logical but I don't get to it work. I've tried this

(Here should have been a code but it didn't show up at this topic, but it was by using the timer.)

but that didn't seem to work. Maybe I didn't understand the timer well but I don't know what to do else. Does anybody have a solution for this problem?
I thank you in advance.

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Megaman Zero

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Posted: 6th May 2003 19:33

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Is there some kind of time statement that you can use, to keep your attack animation playing for a certain ammount of time (the exact attack time), after the button is released, or clicked?

Ive seen this in other engines, but I am not sure if DBClassic or DBPro has it. If it does, that would be what to use.

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Karz

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Posted: 6th May 2003 23:59

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Well, that is the thing I need. I haven't found it yet though. I can't use sleep or wait, cause they cause the wholeprogram to pause. Also I haven't got the timer to work with this problem.
I use 'dark basic: 3D games creator' which is, I think, practically the same as DBClassic

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Phaelax

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Posted: 7th May 2003 00:00

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there are commands that get the object's animation frame. Instead of using time, have the animation stop after a particular frame is hit.

I don't remember the name of the exact commands, but you can figure out my pseudocode.

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Scorpyo

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Posted: 7th May 2003 00:15

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do
....
gosub checkanim
.....
loop

checkanim:
if mouseclick()=1 and click=1 then return
if mouseclick()=1 and click=0 then click=1
if click=1 then play object player,startframe,endframe
click=object playing(player)
return

not sure the command "object playing" exists in 3D game creator
it returns 1 if the object is playing the animation, else 0

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Mr Underhill

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Posted: 7th May 2003 08:49

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This is simple:

If mouseclick()=1 and object playing(blahblah)=0 then play object blahblah,start,end

works for me...

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Karz

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Posted: 7th May 2003 15:52 Edited at: 7th May 2003 17:27

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Hurray, it works! I tried Mr. Underhill's solution and it works perfectly for just one thing: I have a object (idle stance) and appended two stages to it: Walking and attacking. This is why I can't use the 'object playing=0'-part since this condition is always false; the object is always idle, walking or attacking. I use the following code for managing this proces (can't use the button 'code' while I edited this post so see next post of mine):

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Karz

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Posted: 7th May 2003 16:20 Edited at: 7th May 2003 17:34

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I tried the next commandline:

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If mouseclick()=1 and object frame(1)<205 and object frame(1)>235 then play object 1,205,235

but that doesn't work also, does anybody know why?

Another problem is that I want to perform my character an attack: spreading his hands to the side, then to eachother in front of him and then let a bullet shoot out if his hands.I have the animating done, but I can't seem to delay the bullet until my character has his hands together. This is what I tried, but it won't work:

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	if Mouseclick()=1 and Explode =0
		if BulletLife=0 or BulletLife<50
			play object 1,205,235
			mytimer#=timer()+1000
			if timer()>mytimer#
				Position object 2,X#,Y#+150,Z#
				Set object to camera orientation 2
				BulletLife =120
				show object 2
				play sound 2
			endif
		Endif
	Endif

This is the code to let my character attack but the bullet shoots to soon (at mouseclick=1):

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if Mouseclick()=1 and Explode =0
		if BulletLife=0 or BulletLife<50
			play object 1,205,235
			Position object 2,X#,Y#+150,Z#
			Set object to camera orientation 2
			BulletLife =120
			show object 2
			play sound 2
			endif
		Endif
	Endif

Can anybody help me? If you can I promise I will keep quiet for a while

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but his enemies even closer. -The Godfather

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