Help with intro and Parallel Processes

[bh1010]

Hello, 

I've only posted on this site once before, so if I do something wrong please forgive me!

So I'm trying to create an intro to my game where there an animation playing in the background and text happening over it. I created the animation, and set it up like so:

There is an autorun event which plays music and begins the dialogue in a box on the bottom. There is another seperate event, which I set to Parallel Process, that is supposed to play the animation.

Every time I boot up the game, the autorun event with the text and music is all I get. No animation. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I tried with some different animations and none of them show up in the background either, so I'm assuming that the parallel process event just isn't running. 

I also tried to set the parallel process to run by activating a switch in the autorun event, but still got nothing. Any help to get this working would be greatly appreciated. Again, the main goal is to simply get the animation going in the background while the text is happening. 

Thanks! 

p.s. Attached are the scripts I made for the dialogue and the animation. 

 

[pincaviglia86]

I think there is a plugin that allows you to "loop animation" sort of like the looping ogg vorbis audio files in the game. This should eliminate the need for a parallel event (which is quite tricky). I suppose the plugin would let you put the animation in that one autorun event...thus simplifying the issue. Hope that helps.

 

[Andar]

What is on the second page of that animation start event?

Higher page number = higher priority

If the page one does not happen, the only reason for that is that your page two is active and happening instead of page 1, so we need a screenshot of that to tell you how to fix the problem.

If there is nothing on page 2, simply delete that page.

 

[bh1010]

Thank you so much!

The second page was blank. I'm not sure why it was there in the first place    I don't remember putting it in haha. Everything works fine now. Thanks again to both of you!