Events - Waits seem to pause gameplay

[Eff-n-Geoff]

Is there a way (or am I doing it wrong?) that I can tell an event to wait 3 seconds (180 frames) without it pausing the gameplay for that amount of time?

 

[Liak]

What trigger does the event have? If it's autorun, use parallel process instead.

 

[Andar]

It depends on how you give the wait command - the wait in its own only says "skip execution of the following commands until X Frames have passed".

If that wait is given at a place/sequence where other parts of the game are blocked, then it will pause the gameplay - if it is not blocking other sequences, then gameplay will continue.

However, do not think that everything is automatically solved by a parallel process - in some cases that is the solution, but in other cases it will cause the game to lag a lot. We would need to see your event to be able to decide ifa change to parallel process will help or not.

 

[Eff-n-Geoff]

What trigger does the event have? If it's autorun, use parallel process instead.

The initial event is a player touch, which runs a self-switch

The self-switch then turns on a sprite and makes it approach the player and then wait ... 

 

[Andar]

The initial event is a player touch, which runs a self-switch

The self-switch then turns on a sprite and makes it approach the player and then wait ... 

Please post screenshots of all pages if you want help - your answer left out most of the really important data and settings to see what you have done.