Move Picture, then Tint Picture, without freezing player

[JDevain]

I have a button on the left side of the screen that can be clicked to run a common event (I'm using YEP_PictureCommonEvents for that). What I want to happen is that, when clicked, the button turns gray and quickly slides off screen, and then gradually slides back into place, and THEN changes back to its original color. (This is for a non-battle cooldown system I'm working on.) Here's what I have now for the common event:

It does everything I want, but the problem is the player freezes while the "Move Picture" is processing because the "Wait for Completion" box is ticked. Of course, if I untick it, the image regains color instantly instead of after the button has slid back into place.

I tried using "Set Movement Route" to wait and apply it to This Event instead of the player, like:

but that didn't work either. I also tried several other things that would require a lot of explanation (and would have been convoluted even if they'd worked, which they didn't). So let me just ask: How do I do this?

Thanks!

 

[Jules98]

Should be doable by setting 'Trigger' to 'Parallel'. Just make sure that the chosen switch is turned off at the end of the event, else the whole thing will just loop indefinitely.

 

[JDevain]

You mean like this?

It still freezes the player while the picture is moving. Or did I misunderstand?

 

[Jules98]

That's odd. It shouldn't be freezing the player anymore since it's now a parallel event. Perhaps there is a different event somewhere set to autorun that is triggered by switch 38 as well?

 

[Andar]

then the freeze is not caused by this common event but by the event or function that activates it. please tell us how you trigger that common event, preferably with the full screenshot.

 

[JDevain]

The common event gets triggered by clicking the image itself, using the YEP_PictureCommonEvents plugin. You simply assign a picture ID to the common event. No plugin commands or script calls involved.

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UPDATE:

I think we may be having a communication breakdown. I just created a new map, turned off every plugin, and then set up this common event:

and this map event:

and it still freezes the player while the picture is moving. There are no other events or anything on this map. I thought what you were saying was that if the common event was set to parallele, then ticking the "Wait for Completion" box wouldn't make the player freeze.