Talk:GetSecondsPassed

--JustTim 18:26, 27 April 2006 (EDT) : Slserpent, you've messed up the Example! The old Version was correct, yours is not!

ok, i guess if you like counting backwards, it works. the only problem is timer isn't initialized, so it always goes to the else. and i should have put 'if timer < 2' in my version--my bad. -slserpent

Help

Having trouble implementing this in my script. I am trying to make a statue of the player and I want to call the SkipAnim Command on him but only after any weapon has finished being drawn. (Thus the need for GetSecondsPassed. Here is my code

Begin GameMode
 
 If RSPlayerStatue.IsWeaponOut == 1 ;checks if the statue has weapon drawn before actor is set unconscious/destroyed
  RSPlayerStatue.setunconscious 1
   RSPlayerStatue.setdestroyed 1
 
 If DoOnce == 0
  Set AnimTimer to  GetSecondsPassed ; sets the timer once inside the Gamemode block instead of every frame
   Set DoOnce to 1
 endif
 endif
 
 If AnimTimer >= 3 ;should execute after GetSecondsPassed >= 3 seconds ????
  RSPlayerStatue.skipanim
 endif
 End

Many Thanks--Antares 09:05, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

GetSecondsPassed returns the time (in seconds) since the previous frame. AnimTimer, then, will never be >=3 unless you have a <1/3 FPS!

What you want to do is add up the times between frames until you get over three, like this:

set AnimTimer to AnimTimer + GetSecondsPassed

Does that make sense?

Dragoon Wraith TALK 09:53, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

I realised that shortly after I posted, I played around with the script but it still doesnt work. Here is the entire script. Do you know where its going wrong?

 scn RSPlayerStatueToggleScript
 
 float AnimTimer
 ref RSPlayerStatue
 short OneStatue
 short button
 
 Begin OnActivate
 MessageBox "Would you like a statue made in your current likeness?", "Yes", "No", "Remove Current Statue"
  Activate
 End
 
 Begin GameMode
 Set button to GetButtonPressed
 
 If RSPlayerStatue.IsWeaponOut == 1	
  RSPlayerStatue.setunconscious 1
   RSPlayerStatue.setdestroyed 1
 endif
 
 If AnimTimer > 2
  RSPlayerStatue.skipanim ; prevent him from breathing
 endif
 
 If OneStatue == 1
  RSPlayerStatue.pms EffectStone
 endif
 
 If ( button == 0 ) && ( OneStatue == 1 )
  Message "Please remove current statue first"
 endif
 
 If ( button == 0 ) && ( OneStatue == 0 )
  set RSPlayerStatue to player.CreateFullActorCopy
   RSPlayerStatue.setscale 2
   RSPlayerStatue.removeItem torch02 100
   RSPlayerStatue.moveto RSPlayerStatueHereRef
   RSPlayerStatue.SetAlert 1
   RSPlayerStatue.setghost 1
 Set OneStatue to 1
 Set AnimTimer to ( AnimTimer + GetSecondsPassed )
  Message "A statue has been made in your likeness"
 endif
 
 If ( button == 2 ) && ( OneStatue == 0 )
  Message "No statue to remove"
 endif
 
 If ( button == 2 ) && ( OneStatue == 1 )
  Message "Statue removed"
   Set OneStatue to 0
    RSPlayerStatue.DeleteFullActorCopy ;not sure which of these lines work as they act as a return function
     DeleteFullActorCopy ; but meh it achieves the desired effect
 endif
 
 If button == 1
  return
 endif
 End

That is my entire script for having a player statue that is updatable, ie will display whatever armor/weapons you are currently wearing. The whole skipanim dilemna comes about when I want the statue to have its weapon drawn but do not want the breathing animation. If you call skipanim inside the IsWeaponOut block the statue will not completely draw the weapon but get stuck halfway. Thus a delay is needed via GetSecondsPassed. Hope all that makes sense. Thanks heaps for the timely response.

--Antares 10:37, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

You only update the animtimer once -- you need to update the animtimer every frame in order for it to accurately track how many seconds have passed. You will also want to stop updating the animtimer once the script has done whatever it was waiting to do

--quetzilla 14:16, 4 September 2008 (EDT)