Closing Choice Menu

[Mannis]

Hey everyone,


I'm looking for a way to close choice menus without the user having to choose an option. Basically, the player has ten seconds to choose an option, should they not the time will expire and the game will present them with Game Over. My problem is that the choice menu is preventing the game from automatically going to Game Over when the time expires. I've looked everywhere for a solution, but I've failed with it so far.


Help would be greatly appreciated, thank you

 

[ZServ]

Mmmmm, not positive if it would work, but try this:


Parallel process common event. Activated by a switch, let's call it "ChooseOrDie." So, essentially, the engine renders at 60FPS, so 60 frames is one second. 60 (1 second) times 10 (target amount of seconds) is 600, so we want to have a wait command in this common event that will wait 600 seconds, then call the game over screen. Then, before you draw the text window that will pose the question (do you want to go to the mall?), you'll turn the ChooseOrDie switch on, and call that common event. Then, in each choice branch, you'll turn OFF that ChooseOrDie switch. Since the switch is no longer on, the parallel process should hypothetically just stop what it's doing. If, for whatever reason, it doesn't, then after the wait command, make a conditional branch that checks if ChooseOrDie is on, and if so, call game over, if not, do nothing.


A much more complicated (but more accurate) version would use script calls to check the system clock.