Struggling with timer.... :/

[Dieucra]

So, I'm trying to pull this event..., where the lady gives you an apple for free, ok. done

Now i want her to tell me if i want another or not, ok done.

But if i say yes, i want that after "x" time she is able to give another apple, so i used a timer....

and she will tell me "come later" until the timer reaches 0 and gives me the option again to say if i want another or not.

But the timer doesnt stop, it stucks in 0:00 and she is stuck in "come later" message.... I wonder what im doing wrong, I have actually been thinking of these for days....

I actually once managed that the timer stop and gives me again the option, but I couldnt talk to her in the meantime, the "come later" message wasnt showing up... 

 

[Andar]

The timer itself does not signal anything.


You need a conditional branch to check if the timer has reached zero or not


Additionally, you cannot use self switch conditions that way: only one page can be active, and if several conditions are true that will be the highest page number.


After self-switch A was turned on, the event was stuck on page 4 because nothing on page 4 (the only active page) controls A to off. The control A= off on page 2 will never be processed, after page 4 has become active.

 

[Vox Novus]

I'm not sure but I don't think you can use labels to jump to previous event pages like you are trying to do between pages 3 and 2.

If I were doing this I would have triggered the timer via a parallel process event controlled by a switch then in the parallel process event in a conditional branch have it turn a switch on that changes the event page to a new page (also triggered by parallel process) when the timer reaches zero. On the new page have it stop the timer and use a self switch to switch to a blank event page.

You can use the switch used to get from the first event page of the parallel process to the second to go to a new event page for the elderly woman giving the apples. Hope that makes sense.

 

[Dieucra]

The timer itself does not signal anything.

You need a conditional branch to check if the timer has reached zero or not

Additionally, you cannot use self switch conditions that way: only one page can be active, and if several conditions are true that will be the highest page number.

After self-switch A was turned on, the event was stuck on page 4 because nothing on page 4 (the only active page) controls A to off. The control A= off on page 2 will never be processed, after page 4 has become active.

I'm not sure but I don't think you can use labels to jump to previous event pages like you are trying to do between pages 3 and 2.

If I were doing this I would have triggered the timer via a parallel process event controlled by a switch then in the parallel process event in a conditional branch have it turn a switch on that changes the event page to a new page (also triggered by parallel process) when the timer reaches zero. On the new page have it stop the timer and use a self switch to switch to a blank event page.

You can use the switch used to get from the first event page of the parallel process to the second to go to a new event page for the elderly woman giving the apples. Hope that makes sense.

Ok, after some thought i managed to solve it! 

Thnx for the tips

But the timer wont stop until i reach the map where the old lady is, unless I add the stop timer event to each map (Dont mind the Turn Off switch A, forgot to take it out)

Is there a way to apply this event (the stop timer one) to other maps without adding this event to each map in the game? I tried using Common Events, but it didnt worked...

Also, for future reference....is there a way to  hide the timer?

 

[Kuro DCupu]

You can't hide the timer unless you tweak it via script editor. But no, I don't recommend you to use timer because this is not its actual use.

You want it invisible, so why don't you use variable instead? By using parallel process via common event activated by switch, you can drop the variable value by one each 60 frames (1 second) and a variable condition which toggling another switch on when the variable reach 0 and off when variable is greater than 0.

 

[Dieucra]

You can't hide the timer unless you tweak it via script editor. But no, I don't recommend you to use timer because this is not its actual use.

You want it invisible, so why don't you use variable instead? By using parallel process via common event activated by switch, you can drop the variable value by one each 60 frames (1 second) and a variable condition which toggling another switch on when the variable reach 0 and off when variable is greater than 0.

Oh, well I just wanted to know if the timer could be hide, "just to know"

I'm planning to use timer in other things, this is just for learning purposes

thnx anyway

 

[Corrupted Ralph]

This would be how you would do it with Timers, but I would suggest using Wait with a parallel process.

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If you need help with a Wait and parallel process version I would be happy to post that as well

Happy learning

Good day

               - DOTCreeper

 

[Corrupted Ralph]

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Ok, after some thought i managed to solve it! 

Thnx for the tips

But the timer wont stop until i reach the map where the old lady is, unless I add the stop timer event to each map (Dont mind the Turn Off switch A, forgot to take it out)

Is there a way to apply this event (the stop timer one) to other maps without adding this event to each map in the game? I tried using Common Events, but it didnt worked...

Also, for future reference....is there a way to  hide the timer?

Also!

an easy way to hide the timer without removing it is to go into script editor...

Go into Sprites category

Click on Sprite_Timer

Line 68 of default script: self.y =

set it to something that will throw it off the screen for good!

like...

self.y = 9999

:3

 

[Musashi]

I think it's a lot easier this way:

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$game_variables[2] - $game_variables[1] >= 8in the condition for a waiting time of 8 seconds

 

[Ursa Koda]

For myself, I HATE working with the timer. I have struggled for ages to get a bucket to refill after x amount of time, more than 999 frames.


So I do it the easy way; looking for a timer plugin. Anybody has a good and easy timer plugin for events to recommend??


WHY invent the wheel again, when someone more qualified and smarter than me has probably already done it, right?


Let me just state for the record, that I have great respect for all you people in here, young and old, doing what you do with gamedesign and programming.


Good community deserves recognition!

 

[Andar]

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